# The Cult of Isis · The Canon · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow

Source: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/atlas/library/canon/the-cult-of-isis/ · The Congregation of Tomorrow · the Atlas · language: en
The same words a person sees on this page, nothing more and nothing hidden.
Our own words are free to use under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), naming the Congregation of Tomorrow. Words of others keep their own terms.
Every page of the site, listed: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/pages.json · the whole site in one file: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/llms-full.txt

← The Canon: all 125
The Canon · No. 037
The Cult of Isis
Isis and Serapis; the Egyptian mysteries at Rome
c.300 BCE – c.6th c. CE · Classical Mediterranean · Extinct · Egypt, then the whole Mediterranean world
IV. THE CLASSICAL & IMPERIAL WORLD — c.200 BCE – 500 CE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.305–282 BCE Ptolemy I establishes the Serapis cult at Alexandria.
- c.100 BCE Isis temples across the Aegean and in Italy.
- 58–48 BCE The Roman Senate repeatedly orders Isis altars destroyed; the cult keeps returning.
- 38 CE Caligula builds the Iseum Campense at Rome; official acceptance.
- c.170 CE Apuleius writes the Golden Ass.
- 391 CE The Serapeum of Alexandria is destroyed by a Christian mob under Theophilus.
- c.535–537 CE Justinian closes the temple of Isis at Philae, the last functioning one.
### Sources
Not yet checked against named sources. This entry is the house's reading; until it is checked, treat each claim as unverified. Correct it, with a source.
The Atlas The Door