Mini Episode: Hathor Festivities

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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The religious year (Part 3): Worshipping Hathor. The month of Hathor saw a concentrated effort on renewing fertility energies in the natural world. Festivals to the male god of sexual energy, and the widow and sister of Osiris dominated the time. Images and Bibliography at https://egyptianhistorypodcast.com/2017/03/31/mini-episode-hathor-festivities/ TEXT of the Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys at http://www.ancient.eu/article/878/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.0	... ... ... Hello and welcome back to the History of Egypt podcast, a mini episode, Hathor Festivities.
0:52.3	This is part 3 of 12 in our 12 month examination of the Egyptian
0:56.6	religious year, its festivals and its rituals. You will find parts 1 and 2 titled
1:01.8	New Year's Festivities and Opet festivities, respectively.
1:06.0	Today's episode contains references to sexual material, specifically the attributes of male sexual potency that accompanied a particular god of fertility.
1:16.0	You can skip this section if you wish with no loss of the narrative.
1:20.0	Now then, on with the show. The third month of the Egyptian year took place around early October in our calendar.
1:40.0	This month was called Hathor, although in different periods it could also be called Athir, which is just a variation on Hathor.
1:48.0	As you can guess, this month was theoretically dedicated to the goddess Hathor, the Lady of Biblois, the mistress of fertility, and occasionally
1:56.8	the destroyer of mankind. Hathor, one of my personal favorites. Hathor, probably ancient Egypt's equivalent of Beyoncée.
2:05.0	Surprisingly, the month of Hathor doesn't actually feature any major festivals to Hathor.
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