Egyptian mythology
Hathor
Goddess of Love, Beauty, Music, and Feminine Joy
- Mythology
- Egyptian mythology
- Parents
- Ra
- Children
- Ihy
- Group
- Protection · Sky · Love · Sun · Divine · Nature · Fertility · Healing · Childbirth · Eye of Ra
- Appears in
- The Distant Goddess · The Eye of Ra · The Destruction of Mankind · Thoth and the Wandering Eye · The Divine Birth of the Pharaoh · The Heavenly Cow
- Objects
- Was Scepter · Ankh · Eye of Ra · Sistrum · Menat Necklace · Palette of Narmer
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Hathor is the goddess of love, beauty, music, and joy, shown as a cow, as a woman crowned with horns and the sun disk, or with a gentle cow-eared face. She is the mother and consort of Horus and a daughter of Ra. When Ra sent his eye to slaughter rebellious mankind, she became the lioness Sekhmet and nearly destroyed the world, until the gods dyed beer red and she drank herself calm. As Lady of the Sycamore she meets the dead at the western horizon, offering shade, food, and welcome into eternity.
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- Who is Hathor?
- Hathor is the goddess of love, beauty, music, and joy, shown as a cow, as a woman crowned with horns and the sun disk, or with a gentle cow-eared face. She is the mother and consort of Horus and a daughter of Ra.
- Which mythology does Hathor belong to?
- Hathor belongs to Egyptian mythology.
- Which stories does Hathor appear in?
- Hathor appears in The Distant Goddess, The Eye of Ra, The Destruction of Mankind, Thoth and the Wandering Eye, The Divine Birth of the Pharaoh, The Heavenly Cow, told as chaptered audio dramas in MythologyNow.
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MythologyNow. (2026). Hathor. https://www.mythologynow.app/en/gods/hathor"Hathor." MythologyNow, 2026, https://www.mythologynow.app/en/gods/hathor.MythologyNow. "Hathor." Accessed 2026. https://www.mythologynow.app/en/gods/hathor.Listen to the stories of Hathor
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