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Hathor

"Hathor (Ancient Egyptian: ḥwt-ḥr "House of Horus", Greek: Άθώρ Hathōr) was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion who played a wide variety of roles. As a sky deity, she was the mother or consort of the sky god Horus and the sun god Ra, both of whom were connected with kingship, and thus she was the symbolic mother of their earthly representatives, the pharaohs. She was one of several goddesses who acted as the Eye of Ra, Ra´s feminine counterpart, and in this form she had a vengeful aspect that protected him from his enemies. Her beneficent side represented music, dance, joy, love, sexuality and maternal care, and she acted as the consort of several male deities and the mother of their sons. These two aspects of the goddess exemplified the Egyptian conception of femininity. Hathor crossed boundaries between worlds, helping deceased souls in the transition to the afterlife." - (en.wikipedia.org 17.11.2019)

Relationships with persons or entities via objects

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[Relation to person or institution] Hathor
[Relation to person or institution] Ptolemaic dynasty ()
[Relation to person or institution] Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft ()
[Relation to person or institution] Henri James Simon (1851-1932) ()
[Relation to person or institution] Bes ()