hathor

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 * Hathor**

Hathor, the goddess of joy, motherhood, & love. She was the protectress of pregnant women and a midwife. she was found in lower Egypt. Dead women identified themselves with Hathor, as men identified with Osiris. Hathor was the goddess of music & dancing her symbol was the sistrum. She was associated with the Dog-star Sothis whose rising above the horizon heralded the annual flooding of the Nile. As a fertility goddess and a goddess of moisture, Hathor was associated with the creative of the Nile. . . . . . After a while She welcomed the deceased to the underworld, dispensing water to the souls of the dead from the branches of a sycamore, offering them food. Hathor was also represented as a cow suckling the soul of the dead.

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