Hathor the Egyptian Goddess of Love, Beauty and Pleasure

Hathor was not only a powerful goddess but also one of the most popular in ancient Egypt and it’s not surprising since she was the goddess of love, fertility, beauty, pleasure, music, dancing, and was also the protector of women and women’s health and childbirth. She was a complex goddess with many responsibilities and associations and her name, meaning ‘the house of Horus', places her in an important position as mother or consort of Horus the falcon god.

Hathor was an incredibly popular goddess and was also known as the patroness of foreign regions, the mistress of drunkenness, of song and of myrrh, as a solar sky goddess, a goddess important in the afterlife and a goddess closely associated with the god Ra. Her main centre of worship was at the temple at Dendera (although she was worshipped widely throughout Egypt), and unlike most other deities who only had priests/priestesses of the same gender as the deity, both men and women worked in the name of Hathor.

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0:00​ Introduction
0:37 Travel to Ancient Greece
1:12 The Egyptian Goddess Hathor
3:13 The Worship of Hathor
4:41 The Book of the Heavenly Cow
7:08 Outro

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[WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Do you believe the Book of the Heavenly Cow influenced the story of Noah’s Ark?

[blaklena]

Thank you very much for that! Often the Eurocentric vision of Egyptology lacks in the idea of Monotheistic Polymorphism, or understanding that several Gods are actually different forms of the same essence, like maybe the Devas and Shakti in Hinduism, although I havent studied enough. It si very refreshing to see!

[WorshipperoftheOldGods]

Hail Hathor! Hail to the Lady of Drunkenness!

[eleanorrigby]

Interesting

She sounds like a mix of Demeter and Venus 😍

[ЕленаКочергина-ом]

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[golgumbazguide...]

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[ajlvisuals]

A great presentation regarding Hathor, the goddess of love, beauty of pleasure. However, haven't seen any original tablets that reflect that Hathor was the "protector of women..." Seems a little misleading.

[flippaskipskipparooni]

What was Hathor’s connection to the Apis Bull, if there was any?

[Jack-jivl]

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[charmanem.vaianisi]

I find it a tad concerning that feminine rage (in the story of Hathor/Sekhmet) can "only" be fixed by trickery and deceit and "getting her good and drunk." Ah... I am never entirely proud to have been born of Western Civilization...

[saigonmonopoly]

6 door top 6 door under between 1 in the middle

[robertrobem]

Basically we talk here about Sumerian Inanna

[fenderbendermender]

It's Rah not Rawr. Rawr is the Australian god of using the letter r when no one really asked them to.

[RUcookoo]

The gods all are and will be - you just have lost the ability to experience them but they hold creation together under the great one God. Go ahead be scared of demons then LOL.

[TheMentalManifester]

Sound more like Moses to me… boy babies being killed, Nile turning to blood.