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hathor
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
goddess of love and joy in ancient Egypt, from Greek Hathor, from Egyptian Het-Hert, literally "the house above," or possibly Het-Heru "house of Horus."
Wikipedia
Hathor ( or ; Egyptian: ; in , meaning "mansion of Horus") is an Ancient Egyptian goddess who personified the principles of joy, feminine love, and motherhood. She was one of the most important and popular deities throughout the history of Ancient Egypt. Hathor was worshiped by royalty and common people alike in whose tombs she is depicted as "Mistress of the West" welcoming the dead into the next life. In other roles she was a goddess of music, dance, foreign lands and fertility who helped women in childbirth, as well as the patron goddess of miners.
The cult of Hathor predates the historic period, and the roots of devotion to her are therefore difficult to trace, though it may be a development of predynastic cults which venerated fertility, and nature in general, represented by cows.
Hathor is commonly depicted as a cow goddess with horns in which is set a sun disk with Uraeus. Twin feathers are also sometimes shown in later periods as well as a menat necklace. Hathor may be the cow goddess who is depicted from an early date on the Narmer Palette and on a stone urn dating from the 1st dynasty that suggests a role as sky-goddess and a relationship to Horus who, as a sun god, is "housed" in her.
The Ancient Egyptians viewed reality as multi-layered in which deities who merge for various reasons, while retaining divergent attributes and myths, were not seen as contradictory but complementary. In a complicated relationship Hathor is at times the mother, daughter and wife of Ra and, like Isis, is at times described as the mother of Horus, and associated with Bast.
The cult of Osiris promised eternal life to those deemed morally worthy. Originally the justified dead, male or female, became an Osiris but by early Roman times females became identified with Hathor and men with Osiris.
The Ancient Greeks sometimes identified Hathor with the goddess Aphrodite.
Hathor ( Coptic: ), also known as Hatour, is the third month of the Coptic calendar. It lies between November 10 and December 9 of the Gregorian calendar. The month of Hathor is also the third month of the Season of Akhet (Inundation) in Ancient Egypt, when the Nile floods historically covered the land of Egypt; they have not done so since the construction of the High Dam at Aswan.
The name of the month comes from Hathor, the Ancient Egyptian Goddess of Beauty and Love.
Hathor can refer to
- Hathor, an ancient Egyptian goddess, also the patron goddess of miners
- Month of Hathor, the third month of the Coptic calendar
- Hathor Exploration Limited, is a junior uranium exploration company based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Hathor (wherry), a Norfolk pleasure wherry
- 161 Athor, a Main Belt asteroid discovered by James Craig Watson on April 19, 1876.
- 2340 Hathor, an asteroid discovered on October 22, 1976, by Charles T. Kowal.
- Hathor (character), a Goa'uld System Lord in the science-fiction television series Stargate SG-1
- Hathor (Stargate SG-1), a Stargate SG-1 episode.
- Hathors, multi-dimensional beings described by psychotherapist Tom Kenyon and Virginia Essene in their 1996 book, "The Hathor Material."
Usage examples of "hathor".
Right then and there Hathor decided it was about time that Anubis learn his next lesson.
Nephthys left Kebehut in the care of Hathor in order to attend, to see how Anubis would fare.
There were several such trees in the Memphite nome, and in the Letopolite nome from Dashur to Gizeh, inhabited, as every one knew, by detached doubles of Nuit and Hathor.
His hat, lifted from his head by the vigor of his movement, floated around for a few seconds and then dropped onto the head of Sat Hathor, the Chantress of Amon.
It could only be a party of tourists, looking for some unusual experience, egged on by one of the enterprising dragomen who had invented the Hathor story.
Nefer had ordered twenty light galleys and as many smaller boats to patrol all the open waters within three miles of the temple of Hathor, and to chase up any waterbirds that settled.
Surrounded by a full retinue of guards, Hathor marched through the docking station to board her ship.
She estimated that it might take the troupe ten days or more to reach Thebes and prostrated herself on the deck to pray to Hathor that her warning would not arrive too late.