The Het-Heru (Hathor) goddesses
This picture of Hathor was made by Susan in Luxor.
Het-Heru (Hathor), goddesses of love, beauty, happiness
and fertility, also the Goddesses of the sky and the heaven.
She was everything that is true and good.
All that is best in wife, mother and daughter.
Goddess of singers, dancers, artists,
of the vine, of beer, joy, happiness.
She was identified with the star Sept, which is the star Sirius.
The goddess Het-Heru is black-skinned.
Because of the help and protection of Hathor
the dead are able to attain everlasting life.
Het-Heru and Het-Hert are both the names of the goddesses.
Het-Heru means House of Horus.
Since Horus the elder (Heru-Ur) was also seen
as the Sun-God, the House of Horus is the part of the sky
where the Sun passes by.
Het-Hert means the House Above, so the sky or heaven.
The religion of Hathor is of immense antiquity.
Hathor was the "Mother of the Light",
thus connected to the first act of creation, the creation of light
(in the Egyptian view upon creation).
Before there was an Egyptian civilization as we know it,
her religion was already in existence.
The goddess religion was in existence in South Eastern Europe since
directly after the melting of the Ice Caps of the last Ice Age
(somewhere between 9000 or 7000BC).
The priestesses in this old civilization wore cowhorns
with the moon symbol in between the horns.
This old civilization knew the art of writing, which recently has been identified
as hieroglyphs far before the ancient Egypt hieroglyphs.
There is a direct relationship between this ancient Goddess civilization
and the ancient Egyptian religion, certainly through Hathor.
As the cow-goddess she is the "Lady of the Holy Land", which means
the country where the people risen from the dead are staying.
The worship of Hathor was universal in the whole of Egypt,
during all milleniums of the Egyptian civilization.
Hathor is a multiple goddess,
appearing in multiple personalities at the same moment.
Sometimes she is seen in 18 personalities,
also in 12 Hathors, sometimes in 8 personalities.
But the appearance in Seven Hathors was generally accepted.
The seven goddesses have tambourines in their hands
and tight fitting dresses
and have the cow-horns with the disk on their heads.
The seven Het-Heru multiple Goddesses are prophetic faeries.
In this way she is connected with the
goddess Pele who is also manifold in her sisters.
The multiple Goddess are related with the scale of music, the octave.
Sometimes Het-Heru is depicted with the head of a lion.
This connects her to the Tarot card of Strength.
Her music instrument is the sistrum,
a very special melodic rattle.
Even now the sistrum is being played in
the Coptic christian church and
the Ethiopian christian church.
The Symbol of Hathor
In the Book of the Dead, the papyrus of Ani,
the following prayer to Hathor is noted down:
Hathor,
Lady of Amentet,
the Dweller in the Great Land,
the Lady of Ta-Tchesert,
the Eye of Ra,
the Dweller in his breast,
the Beautiful Face in the Boat of Millions of Years,
the Seat of Peace of the doer of truth,
Dweller in the Boat of the favoured ones.....
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