Several Egyptian goddesses are the daughters of Re' the Sun god:
Sakhmet
Bastet
Tefenet
Hathor
Tefenet
Hathor
Maat
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| Sakhmet |
As incarnations of solar radiance they become the necessary implements for the permanence and stabilityof the creation.Whatever their name they appear as the of the sun god.Their mission in the cosmic organization is double and conflicting,they have stay close to the sun but constantly move away from it at the same time.They can not leave the sun god because they have to feed him and regenerate every day.The daughters of Re' must spread the light on earth.
They very ofen have two totally contradictory facets they are at the same time destructive and beneficient, formidable and peaceful.Their aggressive aspect is due to their permament fight against the forces and powers of chaos.Their peaceful aspect suggests their fundamental part in the permanence of creation.
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| Goddess Bastet |
and eye of the star.She incarnates
the peaceful features of dangerous
deities such as the lioness
Sakhmet.
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| Goddess Bastet |
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| Bastet |
The hundreds of statuettes,amulets or cat mummies made in her honor and found in sanctuaries.Her main place of worship is in Delta in the Tell Basta,a name that the Greeks turned into Bubastis.
SAKHMET
The goddess Sakhmet incarnating the solar eye and dangerous forces whose function is to annihilate the enemies of the sun.No Egyptian divinity has as many faces as Sakhmet the lioness goddess. She is nicknamed " The Powerfull One ". She appears as an aggresive lioness or as a lioness headed woman.Her character is very ambivalent. She incarnates the destructive force of a malevolent lioness, but once calm and quiet she becomes a cat and adopts the appearance of the goddess Bastet.Her main town is Memphis where she is venerated with Ptah the creative god of town and Nefertem the little lotus god.
The goddess Tefenet is the daughters of Re' with her brother Shu she forms the first divine couple.Tefenet personifies the cosmic order,Shu symbolizes life.Tefenet brings heat and Shu gives light. Apart from her cosmic duties Tefenet very often adopts the personality of furious deities such as the lioness Sakhmet.The goddess Tefenet incarnating the order of the cosmos.
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| Goddess Tefenet |
HATHOR
The goddess Hathor is the daughters of Re' considered to be eye of the sun.In hieroglyphic writing the name Hathor is read "Hut / Hor",the "home of Horus"or the "cosmic dwelling of Horus.
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| Hathor |
Hathor quickly becomes a universal goddess
a role she shares with Isis.From the New Kingdom the two goddess finally merge and adopt each other's iconography.Very often such a deity is displayed on the walls of tombs and temples were a woman wearing a crown with two horns stylized into a lyre enclosing the solar disc.
Which goddess is it ? Hathor or Isis ?
She is wife of god Horus and sometimes she is his mother. She symbolizes the celestial space in which the solar Horus moves. 
The goddess Hathor has several representation like a woman with two horns surrounding the solar disc and like a cow or a woman with a cow's head.She is goddess with a several functions:Lady of far land,goddess of joy,misstress of Theban necropolis,lady of sycamore,lady of music,goddess of love,lady of the turquoise ect.Her principal place of worship is Dendera in Upper Egypt.
Maat
The goddess Maat is the daughters of Re.She is goddess of justice and truth.She personifies universal order and cosmic equilibrium needed at the time of the creation.Her role is to control the regularity of cosmic phenomena and to watch over the proper working of social rules.The goddess Maat has representation an ostrich feather or a woman wearing an ostrich feather on her head.In every day life for egyptians she is personification of all notions related to justice and truth.
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