Egypt · Love, music, drunkenness and the sky
Hathor ḥw.t-ḥr
Also written Het-Heru.
- God of
- Love, music, drunkenness and the sky
- Recognised by
- A cow, or a woman with cow horns and the sun disk between them
- Chief cult centre
- Dendera
Her name means house of Horus, and she is sky, mother, lover and the welcome the dead receive in the west. She is also, as the Eye of Ra, capable of slaughtering humanity until tricked into drunkenness — the range is the point.
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