deity

Hathor

Beings

The named Egyptian goddess of joy, music, and maternal sky, often cow-horned. Not Isis as another mother goddess under one id, and not cow as animal.

Egyptian religion

  • Hathor appears in Egyptian religion.

    The Book of the Dead seats Hathor as Lady of the West and sycamore-receiving goddess who greets the justified — a named western receiver in that corpus, not Isis alone and not a Greco-Roman Aphrodite merge.

    from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972

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  • Cow is sacred to Hathor.

    The Book of the Dead’s Hathor of the West appears in cow form among sycamore and sky speech — the cow as sacred to Hathor, not the Plutarch cow–Isis dedication and not cow appears_in egyptian alone.

    from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972

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sources

  • Book of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)

    Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.