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From: cfbd@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite)
Subject: Re: Isis
Date: 1996/05/04
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Jeffrey Davi Verzak (cujdv@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu) wrote:
>Just a quick drawing I did of the Egyptian goddess Isis...
>
>
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>
>Actually, now that I look at it, it looks more like a guy with a set of 
>cardboard wings taped to his arms, but hey - enjoy :)


I liked your picture ! 

However...as Mr. Glanvill has pointed out elsewhere...your picture is
of a male...Osiris, the Egyptian moon-god. Isis was his wife.

Perhaps Isis and Osiris did have cardboard wings...who knows ?

Has anyone ever actually seen Isis ?  Or even a Fairy ?


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 " Light she was and like a fairy; and her shoes were number nine. "

                                   -  Clementine

[ Bodywork by MH, wings from an unknown butterfly, assembly by cfbd ]


Bye,