More Hathor
Dec. 9th, 2020 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agoodwinsmithSo. Mirrors. Another source says that these mirrors offered to Hathor represented the Sun and the Moon - which just seems so unlikely. The Egyptians already have deities for the Sun and the Moon, and while Hathor is adorned with the Sun Disc, she is not also adorned with a Moon disc/crescent/what have you. Now, if they had said the mirrors represented Bread and Beer, that would have been more believable. She is the goddess of eating and drinking and partying, after all.
I do, however, have a new book I am looking forward to:
Hathor; a Reintroduction to an Ancient Egyptian Goddess. By Lesley Jackson, 2013.
I have good hopes of this book since it has footnotes everywhere, and ten pages of bibliography. I am disappointed that there aren't any glossy photographs, but the internet has lots. This isn't going to be a book full of wishful waffle, or worse, some wanton essential oil piffle uttered by a new age poser. I can make my own piffle, thank you.
I do, however, have a new book I am looking forward to:
Hathor; a Reintroduction to an Ancient Egyptian Goddess. By Lesley Jackson, 2013.
I have good hopes of this book since it has footnotes everywhere, and ten pages of bibliography. I am disappointed that there aren't any glossy photographs, but the internet has lots. This isn't going to be a book full of wishful waffle, or worse, some wanton essential oil piffle uttered by a new age poser. I can make my own piffle, thank you.
