Goddess Hathor name |
Goddess Hathor |
The fad of this Goddess precedes the historic period, and the roots of idolatry to her are therefore hard to trace, though it may be a developing of predynastic cults which revered fertility, and nature in the main, presented by cows. Hathor is usually showed as a cow goddess with head trumpets in which is set a sun disk with Uraeus. Twin feathers are also sometimes presented in later periods as well as a menat necklace. Goddess Hathor maybe the cow goddess who is depicted from an early date on the Narmer Palette and on a rock urn dating from the first dynasty that evokes a role as sky-goddess and a human relationship to Horus who, as a sun god, is domiciliate in her. The Ancient Egyptians viewed reality as multi-layered in which gods who merge for distinct reasons, while retaining divergent attributes and myths, were not seen as contradictory but contrary. In a complicated relationship Hathor is at clocks the mother, daughter and wife of God Ra and, like Isis, is at times represented as the mother of Horus, and affiliated with Bast.
The cult of God Osiris anticipated eternal life to those deemed morally worthy. Earlier the even dead, male or female, got an Osiris but by early Roman times females became named with Hathor and men with Osiris. The Ancient Greeks described Hathor with Aphrodite and goddess Venus, the Romans.