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Item:123691843498Crystal Goddess ~ Great Mother ~ Oberon Zell. Both Nut/Nathor and the Goddess Hathor were given the epithet "Cow of Heaven". Stories and images of Nut giving birth to Hathor, who bears upraised arms or stylized horns, strengthen the Nut/Nathor/Hathor connection. The Crystal Goddess: Symbol of the Great Mother
This Goddess replica is a composite of several images found scattered
from Libya to Egypt. Dated in the pre-dynastic period, they also appear
on cave wall paintings from Paleolithic Algeria. The culture that
produced Her was a sophisticated group of people who settled into small
villages and gradually domesticated cattle.
Her identity is a combination of the Ancient Bird and Serpent Goddess of
Regeneration and the Cow Horned Queen of Heaven represented by a
category of votive figurines called "Great Woman with Upraised Arms."
The upraised arms are a magical gesture of the evocation and appearance
of the Deity. This gesture is associated with the ancient female mystery
rite of "drawing down the Moon" and encountered also in the Egyptian
hieroglyph for the Ka (symbol of the soul).
This Goddess survived into the historical Egyptian pantheon in a variety
of forms and names. As Great Mother, of all the Gods, She was called
Nut, Nuit or Nathor. Both Nut/Nathor and the Goddess Hathor were given
the epithet "Cow of Heaven". Stories and images of Nut giving birth to
Hathor, who bears upraised arms or stylized horns, strengthen the
Nut/Nathor/Hathor connection. The primary link appears to be the lunar
identity, which went from a shared function to the primary attribute of
Hathor. The association of the Moon with women's menstrual cycles in
which the "horns of the uterus" are symbolized by sacred cow horns is
one of the oldest religious symbolic connections in human history.
Though we cannot know for certain what name the Pre-dynastic Egyptians
called this image, we have chosen to use the ancient name Nathor to
designate Her based on these associations.
This image was found as a votive funerary offering and in Her form as
the Bird/Serpent Goddess of Regeneration may represent a spiritual guide
for the deceased. Such Goddesses took the spirits of the newly dead
into the Cloudy Realms to await new bodies for them to be reborn into
this World. The inside lids of later Egyptian sarcophagi were often
decorated by paintings of Nuit with arms uplifted. It was through Her
body that the soul of the deceased traveled in the Boat of the Ages. As
Hathor was also "the Opener of the Gateway of Dreams," this function of
spirit guide was not restricted to the dead, and such figurines could
have been given as a protection to people asleep or ill, or to newborn
and very young children. Such practices find a familiar modern echo in
the feminine-appearing Guardian Angels with uplifted wings placed in
nurseries and sickrooms even today. Product Details
Name: Crystal Goddess Material: Clear Lucite
Size: 7.5" Tall
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