Wilson, Leslie Goddess Hathor
Wilson, Leslie Goddess Hathor
Wilson, Leslie Goddess Hathor
By
Leslie Wilson
(GRM T~I NHA~ WMA)
Themes:
Joy, love; arts; womanliness, magnificence; sexuality; sky
Symbols:
Mirrors; cow; sandalwood and rose incense; rattles
One of the most beloved sky goddesses in Egypt, Hathor brings
happiness, romance, and an appreciation for the musical arts
into our lives. Sacred or erotic dances are a welcome offering for
Hathor, as is any effort to beautify the body. Her favorite
instrument was the sistrum a kind of rattle that would ward off
evil and negativity when shaken.
To fill your home with Hathor energy take rice or beans and
place them in a plastic container. This will make a rattle. Go
from room to room dancing clockwise and shaking the rattle,
play some vigorous music and chant.
Love, passion and bliss, by Hathors power kissed!
Patricia Te le sco
The cult of Hathor pre-dates the historical period and the roots of
devotion to her are difficult to trace. Hathor is commonly depicted as a
cow goddess with head 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. The Ancient Greeks identified Hathor with the goddess
Aphrodite and the Romans as Venus.
Hathor had a complex relationship with Ra, in one myth she is his eye
and considered his daughter but later, when Ra assumes the role of
Horus with respect to Kingship, she is considered Ra's mother. She
absorbed this role from another cow goddess 'Mht wrt' ("Great flood") who
was the mother of Ra in a creation myth and carried him between her
horns. As a mother she gave birth to Ra each morning on the eastern
horizon and as wife she conceives through union with him each day.
Essentially, Hathor had become a goddess of joy, and so she was deeply
loved by the common population, and truly admired by women, who
aspire to symbolize her multifaceted role as wife, mother, and lover. In
this capacity, she gained the titles of Lady of the House of Jubilation,
and The One Who Fills the Sanctuary with Joy. The worship of Hathor
was so popular that a lot of festivals were dedicated to her honor than
any other Egyptian deity, and more children were named after this
goddess than any other deity. Even Hathor's priesthood was unusual, in
that both women and men became her priests.
The Middle Kingdom was founded when Upper Egypt's pharaoh,
Mentuhotep II, took control over Lower Egypt, which had become
independent during the First Intermediate Period, by force. This
unification had been achieved by a brutal war that was to last some
twenty-eight years with many casualties, but when it ceased, calm
returned, and the reign of the next pharaoh, Mentuhotep III, was
peaceful, and Egypt once again became prosperous. A tale, (see "The
Book of the Heavenly Cow"), from the perspective of Lower Egypt,
developed around this experience of protracted war. In the tale following
the war, Ra (representing the pharaoh of Upper Egypt) was no longer
respected by the people (of Lower Egypt) and they ceased to obey his
authority. The myth states that Ra communicated through Hathor's third
Eye (Maat) and told her that some people in the land were planning to
assassinate him. Hathor was so angry that the people she had created
would be audacious enough to plan that, that she became Sekhmet (war
goddess of Upper Egypt) to destroy them. Hathor (as Sekhmet) became
bloodthirsty and the slaughter was great because she could not be
stopped. As the slaughter continued, Ra saw the chaos down below and
decided to stop the blood-thirsty Sekhmet. So he poured huge quantities
of blood-coloured beer on the ground to trick Sekhmet. She drank so
much of itthinking it to be bloodthat she became drunk and returned
to her former gentle self as Hathor. wikipedia
In Egyptian mythology, Hesat (also spelt Hesahet, and Hesaret) was the
manifestation of Hathor, the divine sky-cow, in earthly form. Like Hathor,
she was seen as the wife of Ra. Since she was the more earthly cowgoddess, Milk was said to be the beer of Hesat. As a dairy cow, Hesat was
seen as the wet-nurse of the other gods, the one who creates all
nourishment. Thus she was pictured as a divine white cow, carrying a
tray of food on her horns, with milk flowing from her udders.
Hathor was worshipped in Canaan in the eleventh century BC, which at
that time was ruled by Egypt, at her holy city of Hazor, or Tel Hazor
which the Old Testament claims was destroyed by Joshua (Joshua
11:13, 21).
The Greeks, who became rulers of Egypt for three hundred years before
the Roman domination in 31 BC, also loved Hathor and equated her with
their own goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite.
Attunement
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procedure you normally use to align with receiving attunements.
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