hathor

HATHOR Today I bring you one of the many goddesses adulated by the ancient Egyptian civilization. Hathor. Hathor was one of the most famous goddesses in the whole Egyptian extension; this goddess had many attributes that intervened during the whole human life, both on earth and in the hereafter. At first it was associated with the Milky Way, as it is believed that this part of the sky was the celestial cow milk, later, she obtained other attributes of goddesses and after she and just reborn as Isis, but hathor, never loosed she’s popularity at all. In ancient Egypt, majority of religious and domestic festivals were dedicated to the goddess in question, the cult of Hathor was not only practiced in Nubia and Egypt, and her was also adulated in the Asian Semitic, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Libya and especially in the ancient city of Byblos. It was powerful goddess; she had several names or nicknames, such as: Lady of the Stars, Sovereign of the stars. These names came from his relationship with the star Sirius .Now we known this star by the scientific name of Alpha Canis Maioris (Polar Star), which at night becomes the brightest star in the entire sky. It was also designated as the "mother of all mothers", because she was the goddess of women, childbirth, fertility and children. His divine power understood everything directly or indirectly related to women like problems conceiving or giving birth but also health problems and beauty or heart issues. Also, it was not just the women who workshiped her, she has also priests. Usually, she appears in the decoration of mirrors and in the cosmetics palate because she was the cosmetics goddess. That is the reason of why the Egyptian people use so many cosmetics, because they think that using it they comp laced the goddess and they will have god lucking the judgement of Osiris. Also, Hathor was considered the patron of the party in Egypt, because, apart from being the protector of women and goddess of the hearth, it was also the incarnation of bliss, love, romance, perfume, dance, music and alcohol. He was the patron of the dance, as a result, one of his attributes was the sistrum, a metal instrument created to act as percussion instrument emitting a sound like a maraca, only that the sistrum sounds more metallic because of the due metal hitting against a body of iron in form of horseshoe. This instrument that appears countless times in the Egyptian murals, sistrum was also a symbol of fertility, original samples of this instrument can still be seen today in the National Museum of Spain, in the British Museum or the Louvre Museum. The goddess Hathor was also associated with precious stones like turquoise, malachite, and gold or copper, because of this, it was considered the patron minery, perhaps that is the reason that it is also related to a necklace accounts in ancient Egypt was called Menit, this was a ceremonial object. The goddess, protected and attended to the dead on their final journey, in some paintings she appear pictured handing water to the deceased from the top of a sycamore, because of their assistance to the dead also is associated with Nut, the sky goddess. Occasionally part of the Seven Hathor's, which were like the seers now knew how long it would last the life of every being, when and how to die, and other features. Hathor was often represented as a magical cow or as a beautiful woman with cow head that is why the Egyptian people think that the Milky Way was divine milk. Isis goddess has so similar features that in some moments was impossible to differentiate them, but they were some little differences between each other. the husband of Isis, Osiris (that was her brother)was at first killed by his other brother Set, the god of chaos, so she has to fight for him, by this, she comprehend best the people feelings, but hathor was the incarnation of the glory and the fame while Isis was the incarnation of mercy. Birthday of hathor was celebrated the day that Sirius star ascend to the sky in his higher point, adverting the next flood. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: justify;">Julia Noya Carreira <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: justify;">BIBLIOGRAFÍA <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: justify;">[]