Isinglass
a very pure form of twisted up in rolls or formed into cakes, e, prepared from certain parts should be free from smell and taste, and perfectly soluble in boiling water. which are afterward torn into shreds or twisted up in rolls or formed into cakes, cut into fine shavings. Good isinglass should be free from smell and taste, and ISIS (I'sis), in Egyptian mythology , She is, however, variously described, and higher and more philosophical theologians she was made the symbol of Pantheinvested with many different characters. istic divinity; see especially the remark- By the Greeks she was generally identiable passage at the end of the "Golden invested with many different characters.
Ass" of Apuleius. By the people she able passage at the end of the "Golden ity, and in her honor an annual festival The cow was sacred to her. She was represented variously, though most usually as a woman with the horns of a was instituted which lasted seven days. cow, sometimes suckling Horus, and sometimes with the lotus on her head and the sistrum in her hand. Her ness, which at last reached such a pitch priests were bound to observe perpetual that they were prohibited at Rome. cow, sometimes suckling Horus, and chastity; but when her worship passed into foreign countries, her rites became