Hathoe

HATHOE, whose name means " house of Horus,' was at all times a very important deity. She is depicted as a cow, or with a broad human countenance, the cow's ears just showing from under a massive wig. Probably at first a goddess of the sky, she is early mentioned in connexion with Re. Later she was often identified with las, and her name was used to designate foreign goddesses like thaw of Pupni and Bybjus. Unlike most cosmic deities, she was worshipped in many localities, chief among which was Dendera, where her ma…

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Vol. 9, pp. 53-53