Isis — Magic & Divine Protection
The goddess whose magic raised the dead and once tricked the sun god out of his secret name.
Also: Isis · Aset · Auset · goddess of magic · heka · mother of Horus · name of Ra
Egyptians revered Isis as the supreme mistress of magic and protection. In the Osiris myth she restores her murdered husband and conceives and shields their son Horus; her spells were thought to heal the sick and guard mother and child. By the Greco-Roman period her worship had spread far beyond Egypt across the Mediterranean. Egyptians believed her cunning even won her power over the secret name of the sun god himself.
In short
Isis (Aset) as the great goddess of magic (heka), protection, healing, and motherhood — wife of Osiris and mother of Horus — whose ritual power restores the dead and shields the living, and whose cult later spread across the Greco-Roman world.
Where it’s found
Pyramid Texts; the 'Isis and the Name of Ra' magical myth; healing spells
How the idea developed across Egypt
Prominent from the Pyramid Texts (Old Kingdom) within the Osiris cycle; her role as universal protective and magical goddess grows through the New Kingdom and Late Period; her cult becomes pan-Mediterranean in the Greco-Roman era (a reception trajectory — confirm Greco-Roman aspects with Dickus).
Isis is a deity. The 'Isis and the Secret Name of Ra' tale is a magical myth; the pan-Mediterranean Isis cult is a later reception, not pharaonic-period evidence of the same thing.