She was pictured as a cow, lying on a reed mat, as a girl with the top of a cow, or as an attractive lady. typically she was portrayed sporting the sun disk article of clothing between her horns. She generally is shown sporting a Manet. (The Menat, a piece of jewelry with a special counterweight, isn't truly jewelry - it's an instrument sacred to Hathor.)
Goddess Hathor | Goddess of Fertility, Love, and Motherhood
As a god of water, she not solely traveled on the water, taking the ruler or sun god together with her, however, she was thought to be in a position to bring vitalizing water to Egypt. She was a god of the yearly inundation of the Nile River, as indicated by her name, so was coupled to each the river in Egypt, and also the river within the underworld, and also the river within the sky (the opaque Way). Mehet-Weret was a god of the waters of Nun, from that the sun god emerged, and was called the Mother of Re (Ra).
In the age of the Pyramids, Mehet-Weret described the waterway within the heavens, sailed upon by each the sun god and also the king.
As a god of rebirth, she wasn't solely thought to provide birth to the sun daily, however, she was thought to be able to facilitate rebirth into the lifetime. there's a ceremony bed within the spot of Pharaoh of Egypt, within the style of the god Mehet-Weret. The body might are placed on the bed to make sure a reference to Mehet-Weret and her ability to provide birth within the underworld. From the eighteenth kinsfolk forward, Mehet-Weret was the patron god of the burial site at Waset (Thebes) and was portrayed in ceremony papyri as a cow standing in papyrus plants at the foot of the mountains of the West, solely her head gesture out. Hathor was portrayed in the same manner.
She was a celestial cow god and, as such, she was coupled to each Hathor and Nut, who were conjointly portrayed as nice cow goddesses of the sky. Like Nut, she was thought to provide daily birth to the sun. She was closely coupled to Nit, was portrayed as a cow god of creation, and called 'The Cow Gave Birth to Ra'. once Mehen-Weret gave birth to Re at creation, she was thought to own place him, within the style of a sun disk, between her horns, that is why she is shown sporting the article of clothing of Hathor. In Thebes a town close to Ipet-Resyt (Luxor)/Ipet-It (Karnak), she was believed to be the mother of the native deities, called "the Seven Wise People"
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