#Temple Of Hathor

[egypt-ancient-and-modern]

Hypostyle hall of the Temple of Hathor at Dendera

[hometoursandotherstuff]

These stairs in the Temple of Hathor in Egypt melted and no one knows why…

[furtherfurther]

Temple Cat, Dendera

[scrapblring]

Temple of Hathor, Dendera / Egypt (by Ian Thomas).

[thequeer07puss]

Pagans need community!

And I don’t mean the stuff we do on Tumblr or in Discord servers of whatever. I mean real life, face-to-face, communal practices that can be done in public. This is the only way we can get stuff like state recognition and temples to pray in.

Community is how the Abrahamics stay alive, community is what brought Wicca and neopaganism to the light, community is what we need. In the olden days the gods would be worshipped by whole states, cities, villages and households, but today it seems that we mainly have household worship, making ourselves content with the individualistic and private (hence relatively hidden) nature of our respective practices. But this won’t further any hope we may hold of getting back the temples and stuff.

Find other pagans in your area, form group chats, meet up and discuss, do rituals together, found and grow your community together. Pagans are closer than you think, and we are here when you least expect it. You just need to ask the gods to help you find them, or to help them find you, and they will steer you towards the right path. Ask and you shall receive.

Community starts with us. May the gods be with you

[P.S: I’m only speaking about what I’ve observed within Hellenic and Kemetic pagan spaces. I don’t know about other traditions but I think it’s a pretty universal message for those of us who yearn for temples and a blooming pagan community.]

[milky-rozen]

[ Dendera Zodiac Challenge - Part I 🩵💛 ]

[agnesdelmotte]

hathor temple, dendera, egypt

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[blackrainbowblade]

Images of Hathor, Deir el Medina, Graeco-Roman period.

[ancientegyptdaily]

Sacred Lake Hathor Temple Dendera The sacred lake was a pool of water next to the temple. It was where priests purified themselves before performing rituals in the temple. [source]

[egypt-museum]

Temple of Hathor at Dendera

Photo: Terence Waeland

[theantonian]

Denderah - Carvings with Cleopatra VII and her son Ptolemy XV Caesar

The colossal carving of Cleopatra VII Philopator (51-30 BC) and her son Ptolemy XV Caesarion (44-30 BC) before the gods, on the south exterior wall of Temple of Dendera. The large goddess on the right, the first of a procession of deities not included in the photograph, is Hathor. The present temple at Dendera is essentially a Ptolemaic structure, with the exception of the mammisi (or 'birth house') erected by Nectanebo I (380-362 BC), which represents the earliest surviving structure of the complex, and later Roman additions, such as the first hypostyle hall, built by the Emperor Tiberius (42 BC-AD 37). There is evidence, though, that the temple was built on the site of a previous one, dating at least from the early New Kingdom (around 1500 BC) with suggestions of structures being present in the area at the time of Pepy I (2321-2287 BC). The temple, one of the best preserved in Egypt, is dedicated to Hathor. The goddess is usually represented as a cow, often with the solar disc between the horns, in human form with, similarly, the solar disc between cow horns, such as in this case, or as a woman with cow’s ears. Her name means ‘house of Horus’ and, as the living king was identified with Horus, Hathor was considered the divine mother of the pharaoh, who had ‘son of Hathor’ as one of his royal titles. It is then certainly not a coincidence that Cleopatra decided to have this colossal scene carved onto a wall of the temple of Hathor.

[blackramhall]

...when anything beautiful's dead, it's a loss to the world. Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

The temple of Hathor and Nefertari (the Small Temple) at Abu Simbel, Egypt. Photo: Kees Scherer , c. 1965-1968. From Archaeology & Art

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[furtherfurther]

Crypt, Temple of Hathor

[sspacegodd]

Temple of Hathor

[kungseyesfr]

Ascending the steps of Dendera

[past-future-journey-nile]

Denderah Temple...noted for its famous zodiac ceiling might also have been aligned to the rising azimuth of the Big Dipper tail star, Alkaid at its construction.