In the mid-1970s, Filmation had a successful Saturday morning live-action series Shazam!, about the adventures of Captain Marvel. This led to a follow-up show about an original super-female, Isis, named for the ancient Egyptian deity. Isis ran during the 1975-1976 and autumn 1976 seasons. In 1977-1978, the show coninued, without the Captain's lead-in, as The Secrets of Isis.

JoAnna Cameron played a science teacher, Andrea Thomas, who finds a mysterious amulet while on an achaological dig in Egypt. Naturally, it gives her super powers when she puts it on and says, "Oh Mighty Isis!" Her powers include strength, speed, and the ability to fly and to move objects. Each power requires a special incantation. For example, to fly, she whispers, "O Zephyr winds, which blow on high, lift me now, so I can fly" (Never mind that Zephyr is Greek, and not Egyptian). Her transformation also provides her with an Egyptian-themed minidress and a different hair-do, in which guise no one recognizes her. On a few occasions, her show did a crossover with the Captain's, and the two heroes joined forces.

After her live-action show ended, Isis appeared in the animated "Freedom Force," part of the cartoon Tarzan and the Super Seven.

DC also put out an Isis comic book; it lasted 8 issues. She later reappeared in DC continuity for the series 52, but then died.

This is a special name given by Oxonians (especially the ones you see rowing about all the time) to a river everyone else calls the Thames. The name applies only within the limits of Oxford itself; although a few people attempt to apply the name to the river above a certain point (sometimes, Dorchester, other times its junction with the Cherwell), people outside the immediate affect of Oxford call the river Thames all the way to its source in the Cotswolds.

No-one really knows where the name came from. Was it the real pre-Roman name of that part of the river? Did the residents of Oxford decide, for reasons lost to history, to abbreviate the Roman name for the river (Tamesis) differently? Did a don (who clearly had too much time one his hands) attempt to render 'Ouse' in a Classical language?

En subito frontem placidis e fluctibus Isis
Effert, et totis radios spargentia campis
Aurea stillanti resplendent lumina vultu.
Iungit et optatae nunc oscula plurima Tamae,
Mutuaque explicitis innectunt colla lacertis,
Oscula mille sonant, connexu brachia pallent,
Labra ligant animos. Tandem descenditur una
In thalamum, quo iuncta Fide Concordia sancta
Splendida conceptis sancit connubia verbis.

16th-century English poet William Camden's poem Connubium Tamae et Isis describes the "marriage" between 'Isis' and 'Tamae' (the river Thame, a tributary of the Thames). Isis flows down from his source, a rather elaborately decorated cave in the Cotswolds. Tamae flows down from her source on the northern slopes of the Chilterns, by the town that bears her name, and they are 'married' where the rivers meet in Dorchester. As the river flows by London at the end of the poem, there is no 'Thame' or 'Isis', only Tamesis, bringing to mind the Greek myth of Hermaphroditus. (Geomorphologists with too much time on their hands occasionally speculate as to whether this is recognition of an ancient stream piracy event). Camden's poetical allegory may be the origin of the name, or he may have borrowed it from local usage. Whatever the case, the name Isis now has Spenserian Authority after its appearance in The Faerie Queene.

1911 encyclopedia - River Thames
http://82.1911encyclopedia.org/T/TH/THAMES.htm

Dana F. Sutton, University of California, Irvine
William Camden, Poems and Epitaphs: A hypertext edition
http://e3.uci.edu/~papyri/campoems/

I"sis (?), n. [L., the goddess Isis, fr. Gr. .]

1. Myth.

The principal goddess worshiped by the Egyptians. She was regarded as the mother of Horus, and the sister and wife of Osiris. The Egyptians adored her as the goddess of fecundity, and as the great benefactress of their country, who instructed their ancestors in the art of agriculture.

2. Zool.

Any coral of the genus Isis, or family Isidae, composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints. See Gorgoniacea.

3. Astron.

One of the asteroids.

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