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Hathor in the ancient Egyptian religion was presented as the Earth mother who was called in the Coffin Text "the Primeval or the Lady of All". The origin of Hathor is a highly controversial issue since some of the myths say that she came to the world at the same time with Ra and thus was regarded as the goddess of Sun and was always depicted as a black-skinned or reddish-black goddess. Yet other versions demonstrate that she was the daughter of Nut and Ra. One of the major myths say that she was the wife of Horus when he became the sun god and she was placed next to him on the solar boat with a solar disk over her head. The statue of Hathor and her pictures beautify the walls of many temples in Egypt. The temple of Ramsses II in Abu Simbel that he dedicated to Queen Nefertari and supplied it with a lot of the marvelous pictures of Hathor. The temple of Dandara is one of the major places that display the statues and pictures of this goddess since it was the center of its worship. The temple of Phyla in Aswan is another place that was established as a cult center for Hathor also a

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Overview

With origins dating back nearly 5000 years, cow-headed Hathor was one of the oldest goddesses in the Egyptian pantheon. Though Hathor was the goddess of love, motherhood, birth, joy, and music, she fulfilled other roles as well. In her earliest days, she rampaged throughout the land destroying anyone who dared to mock her father. Her various facets demonstrated both the consistency and the mutability of Egyptian cosmology.

While Isis would eventually replace Hathor in many of her traditional roles, the goddess’s worship continued well into the Greco-Roman period—over 3000 years after it first began.

Etymology

Hathor’s name literally meant “The House of Horus.” Her name’s significance is harder to parse, as it has a number of multiple interpretations.

One interpretation is that the name referred to Hathor as Horus’s mother, with “house” being taken to mean “womb.” The hieroglyph (a falcon inside of the sign representing a walled enclosure) is vague, however, and could just as easily refer to Hathor as Horus’s wife.^[1] Yet another way to read this sign was as a met

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Hathor

Major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion

For other uses, see Hathor (disambiguation).

Hathor (Ancient Egyptian: ḥwt-ḥr, lit. 'House of Horus', Ancient Greek: ἉθώρHathōr, Coptic: ϩⲁⲑⲱⲣ, Meroitic: 𐦠𐦴𐦫𐦢‎ Atari) was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion who played a wide variety of roles. As a sky deity, she was the mother or consort of the sky god Horus and the sun godRa, both of whom were connected with kingship, and thus she was the symbolic mother of their earthly representatives, the pharaohs. She was one of several goddesses who acted as the Eye of Ra, Ra's feminine counterpart, and in this form, she had a vengeful aspect that protected him from his enemies. Her beneficent side represented music, dance, joy, love, sexuality, and maternal care, and she acted as the consort of several male deities and the mother of their sons. These two aspects of the goddess exemplified the Egyptian conception of femininity. Hathor crossed boundaries between worlds, helping deceased souls in the transition to the afterlife.

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