Saturday, February 16, 2013

From my diary : Daughter's Of The Sun



Several Egyptian goddesses are the daughters of Re' the Sun god:
 
 Sakhmet
Bastet
Tefenet
  Hathor 
Maat


Several Egyptian goddesses are the daughters of Re' the Sun god:      Sakhmet  Bastet  Tefenet    Hathor   Maat
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.
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.
                                                                    
                                           

The  cat goddess  Bastet, daughter of the sun  and eye of the star.She incarnates  the peaceful features of dangerous  deities such as the lioness   Sakhmet. Goddess Bastet  The  cat goddess  Bastet is protector of households and births.
Goddess Bastet
The  cat goddess  Bastet, daughter of the sun
and eye of the star.She incarnates
the peaceful features of dangerous
deities such as the lioness 
Sakhmet.
She appears under different iconographies as a mother cat feeding her kittens, a cat sitting up or a woman  with a cat's head.
Goddess Bastet
The  cat goddess  Bastet is protector of households and births.She appears under different iconographies as a mother cat feeding her kittens, a cat sitting up or a woman  with a cat's head.

  


The hundredsofstatuettes,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.
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.

 

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.

 

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.
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.
  

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.
Hathor



Hathor quickly  becomes a universal goddess
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 ?   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. She is wife of god Horus and sometimes she is his mother. She symbolizes the celestial space in which the solar Horus moves.  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.
 

 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.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.