In ancient Egypt, the goddess Hathor was not only known for her powers over love and fertility, but also for her close ...

And the cow goddess may shed some light on more than one famous story in the Bible. For the Egyptians, the goddess Hathor was a cow goddess who represented all that they saw good in the female ...

Sobek, crocodile-headed god of the Nile; Sekhmet, leonine goddess of war; Anubis, jackal god of the underworld; and Hathor, mother goddess with a cow’s horns: The ancient Egyptian pantheon of ...

Ancient Egyptian Gods Gallery. By Barbara Waterson Last updated 2011 ... Page options. Print this page; Hathor. Hathor was a cow-goddess, depicted as a cow, a cow-headed woman, or a woman with a ...

Hathor, an early Egyptian goddess of motherhood, was often shown with a solar disk and cow horns. As Isis became closely linked to maternity, her headdress morphed and became like Hathor’s.

Later they were worshipped as the cow goddess Bat - the protector and mother of the pharaoh. ... Later Egyptian tomb paintings show cattle pulling plows and being milked.

The figurine was revealed by the Israel Antiquities Authority to be more than 3,000 years old, a model of the Egyptian goddess Hathor. "It was a very stormy day, the waves were high, the weather ...