When did the Isis cult really die out?

Just curious, and I am having trouble finding the answer on the internet.

When did the Isis cult die out? At whatt point did it start losing serious amounts of followers? Was it during Theodosius's persecutions?
 
It did. Though its come back. Definitely after Theodosius that when Western Paganism really weakened through the Empire.
 
She stopped with her orgies too.

Eh? At least one vocal writer of the period complained bitterly about his Isis devoted girlfriend because of her feverently insistence on abstaining from sex quite often as due ritual cleanliness as Isis requires if not demands.

One reason why I could never cut getting close to Isis.
 

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Eh? At least one vocal writer of the period complained bitterly about his Isis devoted girlfriend because of her feverently insistence on abstaining from sex quite often as due ritual cleanliness as Isis requires if not demands.

One reason why I could never cut getting close to Isis.
The orgy commentary was more of a joke, since the Isis cult being full of orgies is Christian propaganda against the cult that probably did not have much to do with how the cult actually worked. The Isis cult also changed alot over time. The earlier ceremonies that symbolized Osiris dying and returning had completely disappeared in the later cult, since Osiris had been ditched and Serapis now was Isis husband.
 
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