I wish I knew the artist who created this amazingly colorful tattoo but I found it, uncredited, on some random MySpace page. Isn't it gorgeous?
Horus is the unlikely son of Isis and Osiris. I say "unlikely" because he was conceived after Set had already killed Osiris. See, it goes like this: Set, being a god of the desert and storms and therefore a bad dude threw a party in which a party game was to see who could fit into a box Set provided. Of course, since it was built to only Osiris' measurements, no one else could fit into it. And the moment Osiris lay down in this coffin Set launched his henchmen on the other guests and threw the coffin into the sea. Now the coffin makes its way into the roots of a tree that eventually completely absorbs it into the trunk. The tree is later felled to form a pillar in the local kings home. Isis discovers this and sets out to get the coffin back. She transforms herself into an old woman and sits near the waters edge. When the servants of the royal family come to the water to do the washing they see the old woman and befriend her. Meanwhile, the queen is looking for a nurse for her infant son and she decides, upon hearing of the old woman, to employ her for this purpose. Okay, now hold on, cuz it's gets even weirder. The old woman agrees to be the baby's boys nurse on one condition: that she be left alone with the infant during the nighttime hours. And the royal couple go along with this. But servants report to the queen the twittering of a bird at night in the child's room and she eventually determines to spy on the old woman. She sees her young son sitting in the fire and a bird flying above him. She, naturally, burst in and snatches her son from the fire. Isis reveals herself and says she was only burning away the child's mortality. Then the kind and queen realize who she is and worship her. They offer her anything she asks and she asks for the wooden pillar with her husband inside it. They agree, the pillar is removed, the roof falls in and Isis is on her way. Later, she conceives Horus (Remember Horus? This is a story about Horus.) while flying above the body of Osiris. Now Horus, as the son of Osiris and Isis, the rulers of the Egyptian pantheon, claims to be the rightful new ruler. But Set says he should be the leader. So, they start a big nasty series of battles until eventually the other gods grow tired of this and decide to hold a council and make a final decision. Osiris, who is now ruler of the Underworld as he is dead, demands the council find in favor of his son, which they do eventually. So we have Horus, the falcon headed one, a solar god of victory, among other things.
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This beautiful and unique mish mash of Egyptian symbols comes from Rate My Ink and was created by Gabriel Mendez at Stained Skin of Columbus, Ohio. 
These cool tattoos come from Lady Greywolf; she is the 24th person to submit art to NeoPagan Ink! Yay! 
This gorgeous Bastet also comes from Rate My Ink and was inked by Lillian at Ancient Art in Yorktown, VA.
These nifty tattoos come from ~b-kreep's DeviantArt page. Apparently, they are self done. From the site: 
This gorgeous scarab comes from here. As most of you know, the scarab is a powerful image from Egyptian mythology and is found in many ancient writings and antiquities. This tattoo is apparently based on a scarab found in Pharoah Tutankhamun's tomb, probably the one below. Ra, the sun god, in the form of a scarab, or dung beetle, rolls the sun along his back thus explaining the movements of the sun. The scarab was a very popular symbol for this reason and features on everything from jewelry, including magical amulets, grave goods and furniture.
A lot of the significance of the dung beetle can be traced to the natural behavior of several varieties of beetle. They roll a bit of dung into a perfectly round ball with their young, larvae, inside it. The larvae then feed on the nutrients in the dung and eventually climb out. From the point of view of the ancients a new beetle emerging from a dung ball was a powerful representation of creation and life. Thus they immortalized it in hieroglyphic form with the meaning "to come into being" attached to it.
I wish I knew the artist who created this amazingly colorful tattoo but I found it, uncredited, on some random MySpace page. Isn't it gorgeous? 
This nifty, if unfinished, Isis tattoo comes from Beetlejess's photostream and was created by Lisa Starr of Titletown Ink (Green Bay, WI).
This beautiful goddess comes from the Flickrstream of Jennifer Esperanza. Btw, the text is Hebrew but I don't know what it says. I think this goddess image may be a representation of Anat but it's hard to say with certainty as she has no connection to Hinduism. Be sure to click to see the details in the larger image.
