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Called The Mother Of Horus: HATHOR, hath'or, was an ancient Egyptian sky goddess who was worshiped as the queen of heaven. Originally identified as the daughter of Ra and the wife of Horus, she was also called the mother of Horus and her name can be translated as "dwelling of Horus." Hathor was also the goddess of fertility, in which form she was patroness of women and marriage. As the goddess of love, mirth, and beauty she was identified by the Greeks with Aphrodite.
Hathor's principal temple was at Dendera, but she was worshiped throughout Egypt. She was often represented as a cow with the solar disk and plumes between her horns.
The dominance of the sun cult throughout the :ountry led to the solarization of many provincial ieities by identification with Re, such as Amon-Re, Montu-Re and Khnum-Re. More importantly, it an early date after the unification of Egypt, :he falcon sky-god Horus of Upper Egypt had !n his form Harakhti, "Horus of the Horizon," jeen fused with Re into Re-Harakhti, depicted is a falcon or falcon-headed deity with the sun lisk on his head. In the 18th dynasty the old :ult of Re was the foundation on which was lased the new cult of Aton, the disk itself, the nonotheistic religion of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV.
Of all the saints saved by the Redeemer, Mary, His mother, is the most revered. Both Catholic and Orthodox traditions are at one in their devotion to Mary: God chose her to be the first point of contact between historical man and his salvation, which is Christ Jesus. It is in recognition of the peculiar unity between son and mother that she is so esteemed. Because she is the mother of Christ, who is God, Mary was conceived free of original sin ( a doctrine called the Immaculate Conception); and after her life on earth she was taken up, body and soul, into heaven (a doctrine known as the Assumption). Traditionally she is thought of as mother of all Christians, who are incorporated into Christ through His human nature, and thus she is accorded the title "Mother of the Church." |
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