This is the conclusion to Isis' standoff with Lynx! Lynx is holding Crystal hostage! Can Isis defeat her without harming Crystal? And what happens when Jessica's secret is exposed? All of this and a mysterious figure from Isis' past returns with clues to her own origin, and the source of her power! Ê

Powerless and held hostage by the Council, Isis learns their disturbing origin and how it's connected to her own, causing her to wonder, was she sent to our time to conquer us? Will Isis lead them into battle on our world to save her friend?

Isis confronts a new threat, known as The Council, who plan to cleanse the world of all who reject their one true god. When Scott is taken hostage, Isis-- now completely powerless-- agrees to trade her freedom for his. After the trade is complete, The Council welcomes Isis into their holy sanctuary, where she comes face-to-face with their o'mighty god herself... and Isis quickly realizes the the only person who could stop this maddening cult is the god whose word they follow.

Featuring the debut of new penciller ROVE (Decoy), The Legend of Isis #8 is here! Isis is powerless and held captive by an Egyptian cult known as The Council of Isis, insisting that she is their Goddess sent by Osiris to restore the Egyptian pantheon to power! Her only chance at escape is Scott and Crystal-- but can they reach Isis before the Council uses her power to trigger the beginning of the end? Ê

The identity of the mysterious Lynx is finally exposed, but can Isis stop her from enslaving the men of the world with her army of the undead? Meanwhile, Jessica and Crystal's relationship comes to an impasse, as Crystal accuses Jessica of trying to steal Scott away from her! Ê

The Catholic Church has admitted its error in the smearing of The Magdalene as a prostitute, thereby removing an image that has dominated the minds of religious authors and painters since the 6th century. And although Mary The Magdalene is almost always mentioned first ahead of the Virgin Mary, only a handful of scholars have attempted to reconstruct why she could have been so important, that she carried a royal title that translates as "The Great One." According to the Gnostics, Jesus referred to her as "The One who knew all," who took a front row seat at all of the main events in the life of The Christ. These Gnostics also believed that mankind was the hybrid result of a genetic experiment Today we have mapped our DNA, the mitochondria of which traces all the races of the world back to a single woman in Ethiopia in 200,000 BCE, the exact place and time stipulated by the cuneiform tablets of the ancient Sumerian peoples for the emergence of the genus Homo sapiens. Those Sumerians called this great woman Ninmah, the Egyptians called her Isis, the Greeks called her Athena, The Sophia, and the ancient Hebrews called her Asherah, The Woman of the Tree and the very consort to the Lord God YHWH. But in the hands of the Catholic Church, She became The Black Madonna. Legend connects this Black Madonna with both Isis and The Magdalene. This book, The Black Madonna, sets forth the revelation of that connection, which forms the greatest secret of all time.

Here, on sumptuously illustrated, colorful pages of traditional art and hieroglyphs, appear the spells, rites, fortune-telling systems, and talismans of the goddess Isis--narrated as if in her own voice. All these techniques for divine magic are based on authentic sources, and cover topics close to everyone's heart: the path to health and good fortune; repelling the evil eye; the virtues of amulets and talismans; incantations to end feuding; and recipes for elixirs of seduction. Predict the future through the Omen of the Flame, the Egyptian zodiac, and the Cairo Calendar of Auspicious Days. Fact panels and myths provide additional information on the background of each enchantment, and on ancient Egyptian life. A Selection of the One Spirit Book Club.