A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the largest and most complex pantheons of gods belongs to Egypt. In this pantheon, Hathor is a goddess of heaven and mother, depicted with a cow horn (or cow's head) and a sun disk on her head.
No doubt, one of ancient Egypt's most outstanding female deities is Hathor. She is believed to have been worshiped during the pre-Dynastic Period, but most evidence of her importance comes from later dynastic records.
Occasionally, she is mentioned in the Pyramid Texts and much more often in the Coffin Texts of the late third millennium BC (the "Eye of Horus), and later, in other religious, literary works.
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