Editing Isis (section)

====Popular worship====
Unlike many Egyptian deities, Isis was rarely addressed in prayers,<ref>{{harvnb|Dunand|Zivie-Coche|2004|p=137}}</ref> or invoked in [[theophoric name|personal names]], before the end of the New Kingdom.<ref>{{harvnb|Kockelmann|2008|p=73}}</ref> From the Late Period on, she became one of the deities most commonly mentioned in these sources, which often refer to her kindly character and her willingness to answer those who call upon her for help.<ref>{{harvnb|Kockelmann|2008|pp=38–40, 81}}</ref> Hundreds of thousands of amulets and votive statues of Isis nursing Horus were made during the first millennium BCE,<ref>{{harvnb|Wilkinson|2003|p=146}}</ref> and in Roman Egypt she was among the deities most commonly represented in household religious art, such as figurines and panel paintings.<ref>{{harvnb|Mathews|Muller|2005|pp=5–6}}</ref>

Isis was prominent in magical texts from the Middle Kingdom onward. The dangers Horus faces in childhood are a frequent theme in magical healing spells, in which Isis's efforts to heal him are extended to cure any patient. In many of these spells, Isis forces Ra to help Horus by declaring that she will stop the sun in its course through the sky unless her son is cured.<ref>{{harvnb|Pinch|2006|pp=29, 144–146}}</ref> Other spells equated pregnant women with Isis to ensure that they would deliver their children successfully.<ref>{{harvnb|Pinch|2006|pp=128–129}}</ref>

Egyptian magic began to incorporate Christian concepts as Christianity was established in Egypt, but Egyptian and Greek deities continued to appear in spells long after their temple worship had ceased.<ref>{{harvnb|Meyer|1994|pp=27–29}}</ref> Spells that may date to the sixth, seventh, or eighth centuries CE invoke the name of Isis alongside Christian figures.<ref>{{harvnb|Frankfurter|2009|pp=230–231}}</ref>