What does het-Heru mean?

Het-Heru is the Goddess of the sky, love, fertility, and birth and is the mother to all the Netjer. She is one of the oldest of the pantheon, and many say she was born of the Primordials.

Is Het-Heru Hathor?

Hathor better known to ancient Egyptians as Het-Heru is a warrior Goddess, Divine Mother-type deity. She is represented as a woman with bull horns and a solar-disc between them. She is worshipped on Earth as the Holy White Cow. The temple of Hathor at Dendera is a fantastic example of devotional architecture.

Who is Heru wife?

Hathor
In another tradition Hathor is regarded as his mother and sometimes as his wife. Claudius Aelianus wrote that Egyptians called the god Apollo “Horus” in their own language….Other forms of Horus.

Heru-ur
Siblings	Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys
Consort	Serqet, Hathor
Offspring	Imset, Hapi, Duamutef, Qebehsenuef

Who is het HRU?

Solar goddess Hathor was a solar deity, a feminine counterpart to sun gods such as Horus and Ra, and was a member of the divine entourage that accompanied Ra as he sailed through the sky in his barque.

Why is Hathor the cow?

Goddess Hathor was represented as cow because she is seen as giving sustenance to her people, or a beautiful woman with the horns of a cow on her head. She was very popular with the old kingdom and she represents Upper Egypt. Hathor worshipers originated very early on (3rd millennium BCE).

Who is Heru Ur?

Heru-ur (Hrw Wr, Har-wer, Haroeris, Horus the Elder) was one of the oldest gods of Ancient Egypt. He was a sky god, whose face was visualised as the face of the sun. As a result his name (“Heru”) was sometimes translated as “face”, rather than “distant one”, and was sometimes modified to “Herut” (“sky”).

What is a Hathor?

Hathor, in ancient Egyptian religion, goddess of the sky, of women, and of fertility and love. Hathor’s worship originated in early dynastic times (3rd millennium bce). The name Hathor means “estate of Horus” and may not be her original name.

What was Hathor the protector of?

Hathor was one of the forty-two state gods and goddesses of Egypt, and one of the most popular and powerful. She was goddess of many things: love, beauty, music, dancing, fertility, and pleasure. She was the protector of women, though men also worshipped her. She had priests as well as priestesses in her temples.