DID YOU KNOW? Hathor was a Great Funerary Goddess

Most Egyptophiles are aware that Hathor was a goddess of joy, music, and sexuality, but she was also an important funerary goddess. In her guise as Hathor-Amentet, she was a patroness of the Land of the Dead and "Mistress of the West." This is one of the reasons she possessed her own little temple within the great funerary temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri.

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