>>13944248

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“Many female royals, though not reigning queens, held positions in the cult during the Old Kingdom. Mentuhotep II, who became the first pharaoh of the Middle Kingdom despite having no relation to the Old Kingdom rulers, sought to legitimize his rule by portraying himself as Hathor's son. The first images of the Hathor-cow suckling the king date to his reign, and several priestesses of Hathor were depicted as though they were his wives, although he may not have actually married them. In the course of the Middle Kingdom, queens were increasingly seen as directly embodying the goddess, just as the king embodied Ra. […]

The preeminence of Amun during the New Kingdom gave greater visibility to his consort Mut, and in the course of the period, Isis began appearing in roles that traditionally belonged to Hathor alone, such as that of the goddess in the solar barque. Despite the growing prominence of these deities, Hathor remained important, particularly in relation to fertility, sexuality, and queenship, throughout the New Kingdom.

After the New Kingdom, Isis increasingly overshadowed Hathor and other goddesses as she took on their characteristics. In the Ptolemaic period (305–30 BC), when Greeks governed Egypt and their religion developed a complex relationship with that of Egypt, the Ptolemaic dynasty adopted and modified the Egyptian ideology of kingship. Beginning with Arsinoe II, wife of Ptolemy II, the Ptolemies closely linked their queens with Isis and with several Greek goddesses, particularly their own goddess of love and sexuality, Aphrodite. Nevertheless, when the Greeks referred to Egyptian gods by the names of their own gods (a practice called interpretatio graeca), they sometimes called Hathor Aphrodite.Traits of Isis, Hathor, and Aphrodite were all combined to justify the treatment of Ptolemaic queens as goddesses. Thus, the poet Callimachus alluded to the myth of Hathor's lost lock of hair in the Aetia when praising Berenice II for sacrificing her own hair to Aphrodite, and iconographic traits that Isis and Hathor shared, such as the bovine horns and vulture headdress, appeared on images portraying Ptolemaic queens as Aphrodite.”

>> I’ve already explained it about the mutation and the distortion that started in the New Kingdom, but kicked heavily in starting the Ptolemaic rule. This paragraph is a confirmation to what I explained before to anons. The practice is called: the Greek Interpretation = as in the Greeks interpreted things according to their understanding and views, not as they were originally.

“Temples in Egypt

More temples were dedicated to Hathor than to any other Egyptian goddess. During the Old Kingdom her most important center of worship was in the region of Memphis, where "Hathor of the Sycamore" was worshipped at many sites throughout the Memphite Necropolis. During the New Kingdom era, the temple of Hathor of the Southern Sycamore was her main temple in Memphis. At that site she was described as the daughter of the city's main deity, Ptah. The cult of Ra and Atum at Heliopolis, northeast of Memphis, included a temple to Hathor-Nebethetepet that was probably built in the Middle Kingdom. A willow and a sycamore tree stood near the sanctuary and may have been worshipped as manifestations of the goddess. A few cities farther north in the Nile Delta, such as Yamu and Terenuthis, also had temples to her.

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>>13950002

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“Dendera, Hathor's oldest temple in Upper Egypt, dates to at least to the Fourth Dynasty. After the end of the Old Kingdom it surpassed her Memphite temples in importance. Many kings made additions to the temple complex through Egyptian history. The last version of the temple was built in the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods and is today one of the best-preserved Egyptian temples from that time.”

>> So the records = archives at the Dendera Temple dated from back then. Impressive! No wonder they had records of Ancient machinery including the Lightbulbs and had advanced Astronomical knowledge (starting page 93).

“In the Old Kingdom, most priests of Hathor, including the highest ranks, were women. Many of these women were members of the royal family. In the course of the Middle Kingdom, women were increasingly excluded from the highest priestly positions, at the same time that queens were becoming more closely tied to Hathor's cult. Thus, non-royal women disappeared from the high ranks of Hathor's priesthood, although women continued to serve as musicians and singers in temple cults across Egypt.

The most frequent temple rite for any deity was the daily offering ritual, in which the cult image, or statue, of a deity would be clothed and given food. The daily ritual was largely the same in every Egyptian temple, although the goods given as offerings could vary according to which deity received them. Wine and beer were common offerings in all temples, but especially in rituals in Hathor's honor, and she and the goddesses related to her often received sistra and menat necklaces. In Late and Ptolemaic times, they were also offered a pair of mirrors, representing the sun and the moon.

Festivals

Many of Hathor's annual festivals were celebrated with drinking and dancing that served a ritual purpose. Revelers at these festivals may have aimed to reach a state of religious ecstasy, which was otherwise rare or nonexistent in ancient Egyptian religion. Graves-Brown suggests that celebrants in Hathor's festivals aimed to reach an altered state of consciousness to allow them interact with the divine realm. An example is the Festival of Drunkenness, commemorating the return of the Eye of Ra, which was celebrated on the twentieth day of the month of Thout at temples to Hathor and to other Eye goddesses. It was celebrated as early as the Middle Kingdom, but it is best known from Ptolemaic and Roman times. The dancing, eating and drinking that took place during the Festival of Drunkenness represented the opposite of the sorrow, hunger, and thirst that the Egyptians associated with death. Whereas the rampages of the Eye of Ra brought death to humans, the Festival of Drunkenness celebrated life, abundance, and joy.

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>>13950016

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>> In the Andean region there was the frequent use of hallucinogenic substances to get them into an “altered state of consciousness”. In Ancient Egypt, it seems there were no such drugs so instead they used alcohol. And just look how this practice mutated and changed to become a festival of drunkenness. The way it’s written it’s making me see similarities with the Bacchanalias practiced during the Roman times, which included sexual orgies of course. So this can explain why the cult of Hathor got associated to sexuality and Aphrodite, despite the fact there is not direct connection between both of them.

“Worship outside Egypt

Egyptian kings as early as the Old Kingdom donated goods to the temple of Baalat Gebal in Byblos, using the syncretism of Baalat with Hathor to cement their close trading relationship with Byblos. A temple to Hathor as Lady of Byblos was built during the reign of Thutmose III, although it may simply have been a shrine within the temple of Baalat. After the breakdown of the New Kingdom, Hathor's prominence in Byblos diminished along with Egypt's trade links to the city. A few artifacts from the early first millennium BC suggest that the Egyptians began equating Baalat with Isis at that time. A myth about Isis's presence in Byblos, related by the Greek author Plutarch in his work On Isis and Osiris in the 2nd century AD, suggests that by his time Isis had entirely supplanted Hathor in the city.”

>> What you are not told is that the cult of the Baalat diminished with younger generations in many Phoenician City-States and we started seeing the emergence of other deities. These deities were not ambiguous or mysterious ones as Baalat of Gebal was, but they were easily recognized like for example Eshmun, with specific characteristics.

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In contrast, the Nubians in the south fully incorporated Hathor into their religion. During the New Kingdom, when most of Nubia was under Egyptian control, pharaohs dedicated several temples in Nubia to Hathor, such as those at Faras and Mirgissa. Amenhotep III and Ramesses II both built temples in Nubia that celebrated their respective queens as manifestations of female deities, including Hathor: Amenhotep's wife Tiye at Sedeinga and Ramesses's wife Nefertari at the Small Temple of Abu Simbel. […]

Popular worship

In addition to formal and public rituals at temples, Egyptians privately worshipped deities for personal reasons, including at their homes. Birth was hazardous for both mother and child in ancient Egypt, yet children were much desired. Thus fertility and safe childbirth are among the most prominent concerns in popular religion, and fertility deities such as Hathor and Taweret were commonly worshipped in household shrines. Egyptian women squatted on bricks while giving birth, and the only known surviving birth brick from ancient Egypt is decorated with an image of a woman holding her child flanked by images of Hathor. In Roman times, terracotta figurines, sometimes found in a domestic context, depicted a woman with an elaborate headdress exposing her genitals, as Hathor did to cheer up Ra. The meaning of these figurines is not known, but they are often thought to represent Hathor or Isis combined with Aphrodite making a gesture that represented fertility or protection against evil.

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>>13950035

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>> So in other words Hathor was considered as a protector of pregnant women, birth and children. It fits with the image of the Lamassu as being the protector of mankind. As for what is written about the Roman times, I’ve already explained all there is about the mutation, so I’m not going to repeat it.

“Funerary practices

As an afterlife deity, Hathor appeared frequently in funerary texts and art. In the early New Kingdom, for instance, Osiris, Anubis, and Hathor were the three deities most commonly found in royal tomb decoration. In that period she often appeared as the goddess welcoming the dead into the afterlife. Other images referred to her more obliquely. Reliefs in Old Kingdom tombs show men and women performing a ritual called "shaking the papyrus". The significance of this rite is not known, but inscriptions sometimes say it was performed "for Hathor", and shaking papyrus stalks produces a rustling sound that may have been likened to the rattling of a sistrum. Other Hathoric imagery in tombs included the cow emerging from the mountain of the necropolis and the seated figure of the goddess presiding over a garden in the afterlife. […]”

>> This is interesting information: in the Old Kingdom times, they used to shake the papyrus. This might have been the earliest form of the sistrum. It evolved then into the metallic instrument we are familiar with. So this is the earliest form of the sistrum but it still doesn’t explain why they wanted to make that sound. What does it refer to? And I do like the idea of Hathor “presiding over a garden in the afterlife”: what garden are they talking about here?

“[…]. Tombs' festival imagery, however, may refer to festivals involving Hathor, such as the Festival of Drunkenness, or to the private feasts, which were also closely connected with her. Drinking and dancing at these feasts may have been meant to intoxicate the celebrants, as at the Festival of Drunkenness, allowing them to commune with the spirits of the deceased.

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>> I’ve already explained this and how I think alcohol was used instead of hallucinogenic substances in order to get into some type of trances or another state of consciousness in order to communicate with the other world.

One thing for sure about Hathor: she is projecting the image of being a protector of mankind just like the rest of the Lamassu warriors and also, they are on the side of the Thunderbirds.

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>>13950051

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I want to take a quick look at the sistrum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistrum

“A sistrum (plural: sistra or Latin sistra; from the Greek σεῖστρον seistron of the same meaning; literally "that which is being shaken", from σείειν seiein, "to shake") is a musical instrument of the percussion family, chiefly associated with ancient Egypt. It consists of a handle and a U-shaped metal frame, made of brass or bronze and between 30 and 76 cm in width. When shaken, the small rings or loops of thin metal on its movable crossbars produce a sound that can be from a soft clank to a loud jangling. Its name in the ancient Egyptian language was sekhem (sḫm) and sesheshet (sššt).

Sekhem is the simpler, hoop-like sistrum, while sesheshet (an onomatopoeic word) is the naos-shaped one. The modern day West African disc rattle instrument is also called a sistrum.

Egyptian sistrum

The sistrum was a sacred instrument in ancient Egypt. Perhaps originating in the worship of Bat, it was used in dances and religious ceremonies, particularly in the worship of the goddess Hathor, with the U-shape of the sistrum's handle and frame seen as resembling the face and horns of the cow goddess. It also was shaken to avert the flooding of the Nile and to frighten away Set.”

>> This is a link to the point I was making about the sistrum being the sound of electricity; most probably the charge made between the Lamassu horns. Seth used to get frightened by it, this is very telling. Do you remember the idea behind the Hamsa that it used to be a protective means, which points to a weapon to defend one’s self? Here, you gotta ask yourself what can scare an enemy? It’s the same concept behind the tail of the rattlesnake: when it shakes its tails, it’s saying I’m here, to its prey and its foes. I think more and more that the crackling sound = the sistrum sound is the sound made by the Horn Weapon beam charge of the Lamassu. Also I think the idea of “averting” the flooding of the Nile is an echo to the Great Flood. I think the earliest of Ancient Egyptians thought that if the Lamassu Beam weapon declared its presence by making the sound like the sistrum, it’s signaling to the Horned Snake warrior that we are here, so don’t you dare attack or harm us = preventing another Great Flood. Yes anons, if you haven’t figured it out yet, it’s clear as day that the Horned Serpent caused the Great Cataclysm which the Great Flood was a part of. I will be gathering the rest of the piece of this puzzle before the full image is complete.

“Isis in her role as mother and creator was depicted holding a pail, symbolizing the flooding of the Nile, in one hand and a sistrum in the other.The goddess Bast often is depicted holding a sistrum also, with it symbolizing her role as a goddess of dance, joy, and festivity.

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>> Bast was a deity with a feline head which means she is a feline warrior. Isis, I think she is the Queen and most probably the head of the ThunderBirds as I’ve said before. So how come both are holding a sistrum = I think because both of the weapons used by the ThunderBirds and the Feline warriors also emitted electricity. It’s the Sharur for the ThunderBirds, we’ve already seen plenty of it in this thread. But what is the weapon of the feline Warriors? I have no idea what it could be.

“Minoan sistrum

The ancient Minoans also used the sistrum, and a number of examples made of local clay have been found on the island of Crete. […]”

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>>13951477

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“The sistrum today

The sistrum has remained a liturgical instrument in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church throughout the centuries and is played during the dance performed by the debtera (cantors) on important church festivals. It is also occasionally found in Neopagan worship & ritual. […]”

Let’s take another quick look this time of the Was-Scepter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Was-sceptre

“The was (Egyptian wꜣs "power, dominion"[1]) sceptre is a symbol that appeared often in relics, art, and hieroglyphics associated with the ancient Egyptian religion. It appears as a stylized animal head at the top of a long, straight staff with a forked end.

Was sceptres were used as symbols of power or dominion, and were associated with ancient Egyptian deities such as Set or Anubis as well as with the pharaoh. Was sceptres also represent the Set animal. In later use, it was a symbol of control over the force of chaos that Set represented.”

>> So it was used by most deities, also representing Seth as an animal. But the last sentence is the most eye catching: the Was Scepter was used as a symbol of control over the forces of chaos that Seth represented. I think the Horned Serpents also stole the electrical Sharur Staff and used it as well. But the Sharur was mostly the weapon used by the ThunderBirds to repell the Horned Serpents.

“In a funerary context the was sceptre was responsible for the well-being of the deceased, and was thus sometimes included in the tomb equipment or in the decoration of the tomb or coffin. The sceptre is also considered an amulet. The Egyptians perceived the sky as being supported on four pillars, which could have the shape of the was. This sceptre was also the symbol of the fourth Upper Egyptian nome, the nome of Thebes (called wꜣst in Egyptian).

Was sceptres were depicted as being carried by gods, pharaohs, and priests. They commonly occur in paintings, drawings, and carvings of gods, and often parallel with emblems such as the ankh and the djed-pillar. Remnants of real was sceptres have been found. They are constructed of faience or wood, where the head and forked tail of the Set animal are visible. The earliest examples date to the First Dynasty.

The Was (wꜣs) is the Egyptian hieroglyph character representing power.”

>> This is very interesting. I don’t think this is the weapon of Seth exclusively, I think it was used by many warrior types. Check picture page 449.

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