Hathor:
Goddess of love, music, joy and dance. Worshiped in three forms as a woman with the ears of cow, as a cow and as a woman wearing a headdress consisting of a wig, horns with a sun disc between the horns. Her emblem is the sistrum (sacred rattle) She was also described as lady of the sky, and her role as the daughter of Ra was reinforced in the temple of Hours at Edfu by references to her marriage to Horus of Edfu a falcon god associated with the heavens. The literal meaning other name was ”house of Horus”, and was written in the form of a falcon contained within a hieroglyph representing a rectangular building . Since the pharaoh was identified with Horus, Hathor was correspondingly regarded as the divine mother of’ each reigning king, and. one of the royal titles was ”son of Hathor”. She was also one of the deities who was thought to be able to deterrmine the destinies of newborn children. She was the goddess most often associated with the desert and foreign countries, and worshiped as ”lady of Byblos’* At the Turquoise mines of Serabit EI Khadim in Sinai a temple was built to her in her role as ”lady of. turquoise”. The city of Memphis was an important center of Hathor worshipped.