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>Hathor was a goddess of many attributes and functions. The story of how Re sent his Eye in the form of Hathor the cow to destroy mankind illustrates that Hathor had a fierce aspect as an agent of destruction. However, the most popular concept of Hathor was not as an angry, vengeful goddess, only pacified because she became drunk, but as a beautiful young woman who brought joy and happiness not only to mankind but also to gods, even to the Lord of the Universe himself, as an indelicate episode from The Contendings of Horus and Seth relates. The story goes that Re, having been insulted by one of the lesser gods, retired to his booth to sulk. And Hathor came and stood before him and uncovered her vagina in front of his face; an act that cheered up the Lord of the Universe so much that he laughed and rejoined his Company of Gods.
>Hathor was often described as the Beautiful One, the Golden One, the Lady of Drunkenness, of Song and of Myrrh, Mistress of Maidens who gives husbands to her favourites. The Greeks chose to equate her not with the age-old Mother Goddess, who for them was Artemis, but with their goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite. The ceremonies performed in Hathor’s temples laid great emphasis on the presentation of wine, and of the beer that had become especially sacred to her because of the part it had played in saving mankind from destruction; and on music and movement: the king himself sang and danced before the goddess.
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>Hathor was a goddess of many attributes and functions. The story of how Re sent his Eye in the form of Hathor the cow to destroy mankind illustrates that Hathor had a fierce aspect as an agent of destruction. However, the most popular concept of Hathor was not as an angry, vengeful goddess, only pacified because she became drunk, but as a beautiful young woman who brought joy and happiness not only to mankind but also to gods, even to the Lord of the Universe himself, as an indelicate episode from The Contendings of Horus and Seth relates. The story goes that Re, having been insulted by one of the lesser gods, retired to his booth to sulk. And Hathor came and stood before him and uncovered her vagina in front of his face; an act that cheered up the Lord of the Universe so much that he laughed and rejoined his Company of Gods.
>Hathor was often described as the Beautiful One, the Golden One, the Lady of Drunkenness, of Song and of Myrrh, Mistress of Maidens who gives husbands to her favourites. The Greeks chose to equate her not with the age-old Mother Goddess, who for them was Artemis, but with their goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite. The ceremonies performed in Hathor’s temples laid great emphasis on the presentation of wine, and of the beer that had become especially sacred to her because of the part it had played in saving mankind from destruction; and on music and movement: the king himself sang and danced before the goddess.
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