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Egyptian

Hathor

the golden lady of love and the sky-river

water

Hathor is joy given a body — music, wine, love, and the gentle welcome that greets the dead at the western horizon; to dream of her is to be met with tenderness, and to remember that pleasure and comfort are also holy.

Fragments

At the edge of the west she leans from a sycamore tree, offering bread and cool water to the newly dead so their long road begins in kindness.

Her priestesses shook the sistrum until the air itself seemed to laugh, and the goddess poured out drunkenness and dancing as another god might pour out law.

lovejoymusicwelcomegold
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