Hathor Definition

hăthôr, -ər
noun
The goddess of love, mirth, and joy, usually represented as having the head or ears of a cow.
Webster's New World
pronoun

(Egyptian mythology) The goddess of love, beauty, sex, drugs, music, joy, dance, fertility, childbirth, midwives, motherhood, and foreign lands; one of the "Eyes / Daughters of Ra", the consort of Ra/Horus; often depicted as having a cow's head.

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Origin of Hathor

  • Egyptian ḥwt-ḥr Hathor (literally, enclosure of Horus) ḥwt enclosure ḥr Horus

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Egyptian ḥwt-ḥr

    From Wiktionary

Hathor Sentence Examples

  • The god of Atha was a form of Horus (Apollo) as the sun-god; his most characteristic representation is as the disk of the sun with outspread wings, so often seen over the doors of shrines, at the top of stelae, &c. In the temple, where he is often figured as a falconheaded man, he is associated with Hathor of Dendera and the child Harsemteus.

  • Hathor, his mother, is persecuted by Typhon and escapes to a floating island with the bones of Horus, who revives and slays the dragon.'

  • Here was the ancienfcity'of Tentyra, capital of the Tentyrite nome, the sixth of Upper Egypt, and the principal seat of the worship of Hathor [[[Aphrodite]]] the cow-goddess of love and joy.

  • Mont also was a local deity and Hathor presided over the western cliffs of Thebes.

  • Pairs of deities whose personalities are often blended or interchanged are Hathor and Nut, Sakhmi and Pakhe, Seth and Apophis.

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