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Goddess Hathor: the most versatile in Ancient Egypt

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Hathor is one of the most complex and mysterious of ancient Egyptian gods. She has been present ever since prehistoric times until the late period. Unlike other gods, goddess Hathour's cult had never witnessed a decline. Hathor was always shining like a sun only setting with the last traces of the Ancient Egyptian empire.  Hathor is symbolic of many different things: Animals (cows, cats , lions). Vegetation (Lotus, Papyrus, Rosetta). Sky (associated with the sky of the morning and the sky of the night). The sun (associated with Re of the morning, Atum of the night). Trees (also personified as a tree giving food to the dead in the netherworld). Minerals (Hathor was the goddess of gold, copper, Lapis Lazuli). Love, sex, creation and fertility. At earlier times, Hathor had no features since her most important symbolism were the horns associated with fertility.  Goddess Hathor could appear in 3 forms: A cow: she was represented as a cow from the prehistoric times. At such times, wild c