egyptian hieroglyphs book of the heavenly cow

Hesat was in turn connected with Mnevis, the living bull god worshipped at Heliopolis, and the mothers of Mnevis bulls were buried in a cemetery dedicated to Hesat.īull is a symbol of summer, summer which starts in Taurus and lasts until Leo. Well that is as good a depiction of the effect of the monsoon on Egypt as I could imagine. Hesat was usually shown as a pure white cow carrying a tray of food on her head as her udders flow with milk. Hathor was also closely associated with Hesat, another ancient Egyptian goddess in the form of a cow. How cool is this? A herd of heavenly cows coming out of Taurus. For the Ancient Egyptians, Mother Earth was the River Nile and its banks and most importantly it delta.Why? Have a look at this image.The green blue water lily flower like shape is the Nile, the land of life.The yellow emptiness around it is the desert. The Sun dies during the Winter, only to be reborn on Winter solstice.įor Egyptians though, Mother Earth wasn't an abstract term and it certainly didn't encompass the whole planet Earth. Young Sun marries Young Earth at the beginning of Summer and they are married through summer and autumn (May, June, July, August, September, October)Ĥ. Young sun then gives birth to Young, Spring Earth (February, March, April)ģ. Old, Winter Earth (November, December, January) gives birth to young sun on Midwinter, Winter SolsticeĢ. In it the Mother goddess, Mother Earth goes through the phases of young spring earth, mature summer autumn earth and old winter earth which gives birth to the young spring earth.And these three phases of the Mother Earth are all linked to the sun which also goest through its year cycle.And because the sun and earth cycles are out of sync, as I explained this in detail in my post ' Two crosses' we have this situation:ġ. It represents the yearly cycle of the sun, the solar year. Hathor's seemingly contradictory roles as mother, wife, and daughter of Ra doesn't reflect the daily cycle of the sun, as this symbolic relationship is usually interpreted.

This is because he is born, lives and dies within the solar year, which starts and ends at Winter Solstice.Like every other sun god everywhere. Ra was sometimes portrayed inside the disk. This is the only explanation why someone like Hathor or Mut, the mother goddesses of Egypt, would play the role of 'the Eye of Ra'.Because it it not really an eye at all. For example, in the 24th century BC Palermo Stone, the sun hieroglyph is used to identify dates, or specific 'day-events'. That I am correct can be seen from the fact that this symbol, known as ' sun hieroglyph' is used in the Ancient Egyptian language hieroglyphs as a determinative to refer to events of time, for example when referring to ''day xx' (of month yy').

Egyptian hieroglyphs book of the heavenly cow