Mysteries of Isis were popular among all social classes in the ancient world, but especially mariners. This is precisely the time at which a small, Near Eastern shrine was built in South-West India to service the needs of the merchant trading post.
Isis and Osiris became the focus of a global religion and the basis of the most popular of all classical mystery cults. This, I shall argue, is the basis for what comes later in the time-line, when the world was dominated by the Greek and Roman Empires. A great deal of this book is devoted to describing what is known about the cult of Isis and Osiris from Egyptian records. In what follows I trace the origins of this to the Egypt’s pyramid age in the middle of the second millennia BCE. The story of Isis and Osiris is the basis of Egypt’s most popular religion. So without more ado let me tell the whole story from its beginnings on the banks of the Nile. But a more recent and credible theory is that the temple once hosted the mysteries of the cult of Isis, whose husband Osiris was also cruelly cut down but then resurrected by her magical prowess. Experts have often identified in the story of her husband’s death and resurrection, something of the Near Eastern cult of Attis. Some of the best examples come from the rites of Pattini as once practiced at Kurumba-Bhagavathy Devi. Clues to the religious practices of these ancient traders is evident not just in the surviving architecture but in very many, sometimes unique features of the later cults, continuing into the modern day. Greek, Roman & Near Eastern merchants travelled to India after a regular, if epic, sea journey of two thousand miles across the Arabian Ocean, making their first landfall at a port known in the ancient world as Musiris. Before this and the story gets even stranger, as there are said to be remains of a secret, underground shrine, the home to a mystery cult dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis.Īt the time of Christ, there was indeed a Greco-Roman merchant colony based in this part of India.
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Once it was the home of the Buddhist/Jaina goddess Pattini whose mortal husband was tried and killed in a series of brutal events still commemorated in the temple’s ritual year. Travel back in time and the temple housed other gods. This is Kurumbha-Bhagavathy Devi outside of the modern city of Cochin or Kochi in Kerala state. On India’s south-western or Malabar coast is situated an ancient Hindu temple which is these days devoted to the famous Hindu god Shiva and his consort the fearsome goddess Kali.