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Isis became the bride of Osiris at the advent of spring, which relates to Brigantia as an aspect of the great Mother goddess. An elaborate ceremony took place on the banks of the Nile, where she was carried on a flower-decked chair or throne supported by her handmaidens. The association with fire or the germination process of new life was symbolized with a lighted torch being thrown into the Nile. The size of the coming harvest was divined by observing how far the torch drifted away from the shoreline.