Hathor

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Egyptian goddess deity

Hathor is an ancient Egyptian goddess associated with love, music, motherhood, fertility, and joy, often depicted as a cow or a woman with cow horns and a sun disk.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
goddess Hathor	1

Statements (78)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Egyptian goddess ⓘ deity ⓘ
associatedWith	afterlife ⓘ beauty ⓘ dance ⓘ drunkenness ⓘ fertility ⓘ festivity ⓘ foreign lands ⓘ joy ⓘ love ⓘ motherhood ⓘ music ⓘ music and dance ⓘ sexuality ⓘ the desert ⓘ the sky ⓘ the sun ⓘ
child	Ihy ⓘ
culture	ancient Egyptian religion ⓘ
depictedAs	cow ⓘ woman wearing a menat necklace ⓘ woman with cow ears ⓘ woman with cow horns and sun disk ⓘ
epithet	Lady of Dendera ⓘ Lady of Turquoise ⓘ Lady of the West ⓘ Mistress of Music ⓘ Mistress of the Sky ⓘ
equatedWith	Aphrodite ⓘ Venus ⓘ
function	guides souls in the afterlife ⓘ presides over birth and rebirth ⓘ provides nourishment to the living and the dead ⓘ
majorCultCenter	Dendera ⓘ
mythologicalRole	Eye of Ra ⓘ cow that nurses the king ⓘ one of the Seven Hathors ⓘ protector of the pharaoh ⓘ solar goddess ⓘ
parent	Geb ⓘ Nut ⓘ Ra ⓘ
relatedDeity	Bastet ⓘ Isis ⓘ Sekhmet ⓘ Tefnut ⓘ
role	goddess of beauty ⓘ goddess of drunkenness and ecstasy ⓘ goddess of fertility ⓘ goddess of joy ⓘ goddess of love ⓘ goddess of motherhood ⓘ goddess of music ⓘ goddess who welcomes the dead ⓘ patron of foreign lands ⓘ patron of miners ⓘ protective goddess of women ⓘ
spouse	Horus ⓘ Horus ⓘ surface form: Horus of Edfu Horus of Kubban ⓘ surface form: Horus the Elder Ra ⓘ
symbol	cow horns ⓘ menat necklace ⓘ mirror ⓘ sistrum ⓘ sun disk ⓘ
temple	Temple of Hathor at Dendera ⓘ
worshipPeriod	Middle Kingdom of Egypt ⓘ surface form: Middle Kingdom New Kingdom of Egypt ⓘ surface form: New Kingdom Old Kingdom of Egypt ⓘ surface form: Old Kingdom Ptolemaic Kingdom ⓘ surface form: Ptolemaic Period Roman Antiquity ⓘ surface form: Roman Period
worshipPlace	Dendera ⓘ Memphis ⓘ Serabit el-Khadim ⓘ Thebes ⓘ Timna Valley ⓘ surface form: Timna

Referenced by (14)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Valley of the Queens → associatedDeity → Hathor ⓘ

ankh → associatedWithDeity → Hathor ⓘ

Sekhmet → closelyRelatedDeity → Hathor ⓘ

Abu Simbel temples → dedicatedTo → Hathor ⓘ

this entity surface form: goddess Hathor

Temple of Hathor at Dendera → dedicatedTo → Hathor ⓘ

Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari → dedicatedToDeity → Hathor ⓘ

Coptic calendar → hasMonth → Hathor ⓘ

Isis → linkedToDeity → Hathor ⓘ

Dendera → majorDeity → Hathor ⓘ

Ra → parentOf → Hathor ⓘ

Temple of Hathor at Dendera → primaryDeity → Hathor ⓘ

Bastet → sibling → Hathor ⓘ

Horus → spouseOrConsort → Hathor ⓘ

Sekhmet → transformedInto → Hathor ⓘ