Hathor: A Reintroduction to an Ancient Egyptian Goddess

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“Her cult, and encounters with her, was once full of music, love and laughter. No stern, demanding deity, she rejoiced in her followers’ happiness and plenty of could say ‘she placed joy in my heart’.” – Lesley Jackson Hathor: A Reintroduction to an Ancient Egyptian Goddess is a comprehensive and thought-provoking study of one of the vital important Ancient Egyptian deities. Primarily a Cow Goddess, Hathor was once multifaceted, and her importance was once emphasised through the many titles and roles she held. She was once the goddess of the sky, sun, love, sex, dance, music, fertility, precious metals and gemstones, in addition to being Protectress of Foreign Lands, Eye Goddess, Goddess of Desire, Lady of Drunkenness, and Lady of Fragrance. Present in all aspects of life, Hathor was once a goddess of childbirth, who secure her worshippers all the way through life and offered protection at the journey into the afterlife. Daughter of the Sun God Ra, she was once linked to other cow goddesses, in addition to other major deities such as Isis, Bastet and Horus. She was once intimately associated with the lioness goddess Sekhmet, who was once both an aspect of Hathor and a significant and powerful goddess in her own right. The Seven Hathors, a seven-fold manifestation of Hathor, predicted the destiny of newborn children and the time and manner of a person’s death and were invoked in love spells and protection charms. This extensive work provides a welcome and much-needed exploration of one of the vital influential goddesses of the ancient world. It explores Hathor’s different roles and titles, her associations with other deities, alter-egos and assimilations, her temples, worship, festivals and her subsequent decline in popularity towards the end of the Greco-Roman period. Writer Lesley Jackson draws on quite a lot of historical sources, including magical papyri, stelae, statues, jewellery, ritual objects and archaeological evidence, employing these to reveal the captivating history and a lot of functions of this mesmerizing goddess. In doing so, she succeeds in reintroducing Hathor to us as a sovereign, powerful, beautiful and lovely goddess, she ‘whose ba is powerful’.

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