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Look up: Hathor

  1. Hathor
    an ancient Egyptian goddess also known as Sekhmet; Hathor was depicted as a woman with the head of a cow, as a cow, or as a woman wearing cow horns and holding a solar disk; the Hathors, who served a similar role as the Fates in ancient Greek mythology, were depicted as seven young women who wore the headdress of Hathor, horns and the solar disk.
    Found on http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/glossary/glo

  2. Hathor
    Hathor was the goddess of joy, motherhood, and love. Hathor was originally worshipped in the form of a cow, sometimes as a cow with stars on her. Later she is represented as a woman with the head of a cow, and finally with a human head, the face broad and placid, sometimes she is depicted with the ears or horns of a cow.
    Found on http://www.egyptartsite.com/glossary.htm

  3. Hathor
    In ancient Egyptian mythology, a sky goddess; wife or mother of the sky god Horus; goddess of dance, music, and love, (equivalent to Greek Aphrodite); also, goddess of desert cemeteries. She may...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  4. Hathor
    in ancient Egyptian religion, goddess of the sky, of women, and of fertility and love. Hathor`s worship originated in predynastic times (4th ... [5 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/h/23

  5. Hathor
    Hathor (hăth'ôr) , in Egyptian religion, celestial goddess of love and festivity. The personification of the sky, she was represented as a star-studded cow or as a woman with the head of a cow. She was identified with many other goddesses of fertility and love, such as Aphrodite. Her...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0

  6. Hathor
    Click images to enlargeIn ancient Egyptian mythology, a sky goddess; wife or mother of the sky god Horus; goddess of dance, music, and love, (equivalent to Greek Aphrodite); also, goddess of desert cemeteries. She may appear as the great celestial cow, creator of the world; or as a human with cow's hor...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  7. Hathor
    Goddess of sky, love, mirth, beauty and fertility
    Found on http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/glos

  8. Hathor
    `Hathor` (ḥwt-ḥr, Egyptian for Horus`s enclosure),<ref name="hathor">Hathor and Thoth: two key figures of the ancient Egyptian religion, Claas Jouco Bleeker, p22-102, BRILL, 1973, ISBN 978-90-04-03734-2--> was an Ancient Egyptian goddess who personified th...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hathor

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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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