Egyptian Gods

Hathor is an ancient Egyptian Goddess of Love, Music and Dance. The name Hathor also spelled as Het-Hert, Hetheru or Hathoor, whose name means “House of Horus” and shows her as the mother goddess of the whole world, often connected with Isis.

Hathor was also known as the Divine Cow Goddess, the Mistress of Life, The Great Wild Cow, The Golden One, Lady of Malachite and Lady of Love. She is also the goddess of happiness, fertility and a protector of all women. Hathor appearance portrayed as a cow headed woman with a headdress of a sun disk which hold in by the cow horns. Sometimes, Hathor depicted as a cow, a cow bearing the sun disk between the horns or a woman with a cow horns and ears. Her symbols also included the papyrus reed, the snake and a sistrum.

She was the daughter of Ra the king of gods and Nut the sky goddess. Sometimes, the great royal queens depicted as Hathor. At Thebes, she was considered a goddess of the dead, alcohol, and foreign lands. In the myth of Ra and Hathor, she was created by Ra as ‘Sekhmet’ as a destroyer of a disobedient men. She was called the “Eye of Ra”. Hathor personality was opposite with Sekhmet.

Hathor was worshipped all over Egypt, since the early dynastic period. Originally, she was worshipped in the form of a cow. During the Ptolemeian period, a great temple was built for her as an honour at Dendera in Upper Egypt. Music and dance were part of the worship of Hathor, since she was the goddess of music and dance and both men and women were her priest.