The Egyptian cycle of Isis, Osiris and Horus: the secret name she won from Ra, Osiris murdered by his brother, her search for his body at Byblos, and the hidden childhood of Horus.
Isis makes a serpent from the sun god’s own fallen spittle, then offers to cure the poison on one condition: that Ra give her the name he keeps hidden inside his body. What does knowing a name give you, and what does giving it up cost?
