The Egyptian Goddess Hathōr was a personification of the Milky Way and linked to Sirius as Sopdet and Isis. Her birthday coincided with the helical rising of the Star, announcing the Egyptian New Year. The Feast Day of Mary Magdalene can be traced all the way back to Hathōrs birthday, more than 3000 years before Marys time.
The Golden Calf worshipped by the Hebrews in the Sinai can be directly connected to Hathōr as the cow goddess. She was closely associated with the constellation of Taurus, as the sign occupied the eastern horizon for 2160 years during the precessional cycle of 25 920 years.
The Seven Hathors in turn are connected to the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades that form part of Taurus. She was also personified as the planet Venus, her horns representing the morning and evening stars.
Aaron the High Priest and brother of Moses created the Golden Calf in honor of the Mother Goddess. Dancing, music and life affirming activities were part of the festivities and celebrations of Hathor.
Exodus 32
V 19 When Moses came close enough to the camp to see the bull-calf and to see the people dancing, he was furious.
V 22 Aaron answered, “Don’t be angry with me; you know how determined these people are to do evil. They said to me, ‘We don’t know what has happened to this man Moses, who brought us out of Egypt; so make us a god to lead us. I asked them to bring me their gold ornaments. I threw the ornaments into the fire and out came this bull-calf!”
V 26 “Everyone who is on the LORD’S side come over here!” So all the Levites gathered round him, and he said to them, “The LORD God of Israel commands every one of you to put on his sword and go through the camp from this gate to the other and kill his brothers, his friends, and his neighbours.”
V 28 The Levites obeyed, and killed about three thousand men that day. Moses said to the Levites, “Today you have consecrated yourselves as priests in the service of the LORD by killing your sons and brothers, so the LORD has given you his blessing.”
This internal struggle within the Hebrew community and later within Judaism itself continued for hundreds of years. One king would worship the goddess alongside the god, and the next would destroy any images of her, only for them to be rebuilt.
The bull-calf was worshipped in Israel even after King Solomon built the Temple in Jerusalem. Goddess worship resumed with the creation of Christianity, but only one aspect was retained, Mother Mary, at the expense of Mary Magdalene.
No matter how hard the Monotheistic religions try, God the Father is incomplete without God the Mother. All Her aspects, not just the most wholesome and likeable ones. Hathōr and Sekhmet represent both nurturing mother and untamable lover.
The danger of this time we are living through from a political point of view is the tendency by the priesthood to revert to violence to affirm their limited understanding of the GODDHEAD, God and Goddess becomes the One Godd.
The separation of church and state has been created to stop history from repeating itself. The Christian persecution of the pagan religions starting in the 4th century. The massacre of the Cathars in the 13th century. The torture and murder of the Templars in the 14th century.
The burning of the witches and heretics during the Unholy Inquisition lasting up to the 18th century. The Magdalene Asylums of the 19th and 20th centuries. The genocide of the Jewish people during the Holocaust and the murder of hundreds of thousands of Freemasons by Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco before, during, and after WWII.
The current political climate and the rise of the Christian Self-Righteous in America, Russia, and parts of Europe, taken together with Ultra Orthodox Zionism in Israel, doesn’t bode well for the environment, human rights, moderate Christians, non believers, women, homosexuals, scientists, intellectuals, artists, or people belonging to faiths outside of the Judeo-Christian worldview.
Credit: Olof Tausch Luxor Museum Egypt.