Characters

 

 

The is one other character that is really important in the myth of how Ra the sun god created life and living human beings. The other character mentioned is a goddess named Hathor. She is known for many different roles, some of them are a sky goddess, a sun goddess, a moon goddess, a goddess of the east, a goddess of the west, a goddess of moisture, a goddess of fertility, an agricultural goddess, and a goddess of the mysterious underworld.  She was mostly known for the goddess of motherhood, love and joy.  She has a very protective attitude, she protects pregnant women and a midwife.  Hathor was the patron of all women no matter what. She is also the goddess of music and dancing, and with that she has the symbol of the sitrum. Originally Hathor was worshipped in the form of a cow and sometimes she had a star on her. Later on she took the form of a woman but still had a head of a cow, and soon she finally had a human head to fit her human body.  Once in a while she is saw with ears or horns of a cow. Other ways she is known as is wearing a head-dress resembling a pair of cow horns with the moon-disk between the two horns. Hathor is the daughter of Nut and Ra. She is the wife of Ra and they shared a kid named Ihy. Different legends say she is the mother of Horus the elder and some say as the wife of Horus of Edfu.