Isis vs Idol - What's the difference?
isis | idol |
(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, worshiped as the ideal mother and wife and as the matron of nature and magic.
(UK, Oxford) The River Thames.
(astronomy) Short for , a main belt asteroid.
(rare) (female)
* 1924 , Zora Neale Hurston, Drenched in Light :
* 1995 , Iain Banks, Whit :
A graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.
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, passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
* 1911 (The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God) , :
A cultural icon, or especially popular person.
As nouns the difference between isis and idol
is that isis is (zoology) any coral of the genus , composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints while idol is a graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.isis
English
(wikipedia Isis)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Isis had crawled under the center table with its red plush cover with little round balls for fringe.
- 'Beloved Isis ,' Elias grinned, 'would you kindly cast some light into the poor occluded mind of our brother here on the matter of the co-essential nature of the body and the soul?'
Etymology 2
idol
English
Noun
(en noun)- There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Kathmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town; There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the Yellow God forever gazes down.