Sopdet, the deified star Sirius, was absorbed into Isis from the Old Kingdom onward, her heliacal rising becoming an epiphany of the great goddess and a harbinger of the Nile flood that renewed the land.
Satet's temple at Elephantine was aligned so that the light of Sopdet, the star Sirius, would pierce its inner sanctuary at the heliacal rising that heralded the annual flood — the archer goddess sending the waters northward at the star's command.
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