Maio 26, 2008 às 8:40 am (Egyptian Gods)
Tags: Hathor, Sekhmet
Hathor – the Goddess of love, music, dance cow horns and sundisk on head
the Goddess of the sun woman with lion’s head head – Sekhmet
Hathor was the goddess of joy, motherhood, and love. She looked after all women. She was the goddess of music and dancing, as well. Dead women were identified with Hathor, as men were identified with Osiris. She has a sun disk on her head and cow horns. Sometimes she had cow’s ears or was a whole cow.
But she had another side as well, as Sekhmet, the Eye of Ra, the destructive Sun Goddess. The Egyptians knew that the Sun brought life, but they also knew that the desert Sun could kill you.
Ra, the Sun God, was angry with mankind, because they laughed at him. He said that he’d send down his anger as Sekhmet, the Eye of Ra. She went down to Earth, killing men, and drinking their blood. She started to frighten Ra, who only wanted to punish Mankind, not destroy them all. So he dyed some beer red, to look like blood. When Sekhmet saw the beer, she was thristy for blood, so she drank it all, got drunk and went to sleep. When she woke up, Ra persuaded her to stop killing Mankind.
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Maio 26, 2008 às 8:26 am (Egyptian Gods)
Tags: ra egyptian gods
head of falcon and sun disk
Ra - Sun God, King of the Gods
a falcon crowned with a sun disk or a man with a
falcon's head Ra was the God of the Sun.
He sailed across the heavens in a boat called
the 'Barque of Millions of Years'.
At the end of each day Ra was thought to die
and sailed on his night voyage through the Underworld,
leaving the Moon to light the world above.
The boat would sail through the twelve doors,
representing the twelve hours of night-time.
The next dawn, he was born again.
It was not always smooth sailing. During the day Ra had
to fight his chief enemy, a snake called Apep.
He was helped by the other gods, such as Seth and Bastet.
The sun disk on Ra's head often has a cobra round it.
A cobra appears on the forehead of Pharaohs, like Tutankhamun.
Ra was the greatest of the gods and he kept his power in
his secret name, which only he knew. He had started
to grow old, and sometimes he dribbled.
Isis collected some of his saliva and made it into a snake.
She hid the snake where Ra would walk. When Ra trod on it,
it bit him, and Ra screamed in pain. All the gods gathered
round, but none could heal him.
Isis said "If you tell me your secret name,
this will give me enough magic power to heal you."
Ra didn't want to do this, but eventually the
pain was so bad that he had to. Isis healed him,
and ever since then she has the magic powers that Ra had.
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