hathor was the god that played the goddess of love in gods of egypt.
hathor was the god that played the goddess of love in gods of egypt.
who is the god that plays the goddess of love in gods of egypt?
hathor
the sun is the giver of life, controlling the ripening of crops which were worked by man. because of the life giving qualities of the sun the egyptians worshiped the sun as a god. the creator of the universe and the giver of life, the sun or ra represented life, warmth and growth. since the people regarded ra as a principal god, creator of the universe and the source of life, he had a strong influence on them, which led to him being one of the most worshiped of all the egyptian gods and even considered king of the gods. at an early period in egyptian history his influence spread throughout the whole country, bringing multiple representations in form and in name. the most common form combinations are with atum (his human form), khepra (the scarab beetle) and horus (the falcon). the form in which he usually appears is that of a man with a falcon head, which is due to his combination with horus, another sky god. on top of his head sits a solar disc with a cobra, which in many myths represents the eye of ra. at the beginning of time, when there was nothing but chaos, the sun god existed alone in the watery mass of nun which filled the universe. "i am atum when he was alone in nun, i am ra when he dawned, when he began to rule that which he had made." this passage talks about how atum created everything in human form out of the chaos and how ra then began to rule over the earth where humans and divine beings coexisted. by having sexual intercourse with himself he spat out of his mouth the god shu, god of air, and the goddess of moisture, tefnut. the siblings symbolized two universal principles of humans: life and right (justice). ra was believed to have created all forms of life by calling them into existence by uttering their secret names. in some accounts humans were created from ra's tears and sweat. according to one myth the first portion of earth came into being when the sun god summoned it out of the watery mass of nun. in the myth of the celestial cow (the sky was thought of as a huge cow, the goddess meht-urt) it is recounted how mankind plotted against ra and how he sent his eye as the goddess sekhmet to punish them. extensions of ra's power were often shown as the eye of ra, which were the female versions of the sun god. ra had three daughters bastet, sekhmet, and hathor who were all considered the eye of ra who would seek out his vengeance. sekhmet was the eye of ra and was created by the fire in ra's eye. she was violent and sent to slaughter the people who betrayed ra, but when calm she became the more kind and forgiving goddess hathor. sekhmet was the powerful warrior and protector while bastet, who was depicted as a cat, was shown as gentle and nurturing.
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the body of the saints thus praised and chanted the hymns of maheshwari. there, goddess parvati went to himalayas where gods were praying to her. gods informed her about the droughtful condition over the earth. seeing the dreadful condition of the earth, she created innumerable eyes within her body and became visible. her colour was dark-blue (colour of the fourth dimension, space) like heaps of collyrium (eye-paint); eyes like the blue lotuses and expanded; breasts hard, regularly elevated round and so fleshy that they touched each other; two handed. she was the essence of all beauty, lovely, luminous like the thousand suns, and the ocean of mercy. that upholder of the universe, showed her form and began to shed waters from her eyes. for nine nights continuously, the heavy rains poured down out of the waters flowing from her eyes. seeing the misery of all the people, out of pity, she showered incessantly tears from her eyes; and all the people and medicines were satisfied. what more than this, out of those tears, the rivers began to flow. the gods that remained hidden in the mountain caves, now came out. then the sages, united with the gods, began to praise and sing hymns to the goddess. then, shatakshi devi transformed her appearance into a wonderful form, her eight hands held foods like grains, cereals, vegetables, greens, fruits and other herbs, she wore a beautiful garment, this new form of goddess is known as shakambhari. hearing these words of the gods and the saints, the auspicious one gave them the vegetables, delicious fruits and roots to them that were on her hand, for their eating. after she was prayed, she gave to men sufficient quantity of various articles of juicy food and to the beasts, grass, etc., until new crops came out. from that day she became famous by the name of shakambhari (because she nourished all by vegetables, etc.) parvati got to know about durgamasur's evil intentions, so she sent a lady messenger to make him to give the vedas back to brahma and also to give back the heaven to indra. durgamasur didn't want to, parvati's messenger was angry and forced him to make preparations for his death. great tumult arose and the demon durgamasur heard all from the emissaries and started out to fight with his weapons and army. he took one thousand aksauhini armies with him (one aksauhini army equals large army consisting of 21,870 chariots, as many elephants, 65,610 horses, and 109,350 foot) and, shooting arrows, he came quickly before parvati and invested her and the god army and the saints. at this, a great tumultuous uproar arose and the gods and the saints united exclaimed to parvati to save them. parvati then, for the safety of the gods and the saints created round them a luminous circle and she herself remained outside. goddess parvati transformed her appearance. now she looked ferocious in her new appearance. she was well equipped with all sorts of lethal weapons and was mounted on a lion. she thundered loudly and challenged durgamasur. the terrible fight, then, ensued between the goddess and the demons. the sun was covered with their incessant hurling of arrows; and the shooters could not shoot accurately on account of the darkness that then prevailed. then by the collision of the arrows of both the parties, the arrows caught fire and the battlefield again became filled with light. the quarters on all aides resounded with harsh bow sounds and nothing could be heard. at this moment, came out of the body of the devi, the principal shaktis (forces incarnate) named kali, tarini, tripura sundari,  bhuvaneshwari, bhairavi, chinnamasta, dhumavati, bagalamukhi, matangi and kamalatmika. the navadurgas shailaputri, brahmacharini, chandraghanta, kushmanda, skandamata, katyayani, kaalratri, mahagauri, siddhidatri and matrikas brahmani, vaishnavi,  maheshwar, kaumari, indrani , varahi, narasimohi, shivadooti, chamundai also came out of the goddess. then, devi, shakti, adi shakti, parameshwari, gauri, jagadamba, maha shakti, bhagawati, chandamari, bhadrakali, chandika, kaushiki, mahakali, tridevi, mahadevi, ambika, jagatjanani, mateshwari, uma, narayani, singhavahini, aparajita, vyaghravahini, bhavani, yudhadevi, yogmaya, mahamaya, sherawali, vindhyavasini, raj rajeshwari, kalika, gayatri, shaambhavi, bhramari, jumadi, akhilandeshwari, kamakshi, mahadurga, prathyangira, meenakshi, ramchandi, ishwari, gatral, bahuchara, hingalaj, nagbai, varaki, dhavdi, sadhi, hadkai, vihat, amba]], [[khodiyar]], [[jagadhatri]], [[modheshwari]], [[guhyakali]], [[shitala]] and [[raktachamunda]] joined in the war against [[durgamasur]]. [[jambhini]], [[mohini]], [[tripur]] and [[shodashi]] came out the goddess too. some yoginis namedaditi]],  agneyei, ajita, aparna, bhayankari, bhimachandi, chandi, damani,  dhriti, gandhari, ganga (yogini), jaya, kapalini,  kauberi, medha,  rati, raudri,  rudrani, saraswati (yogini), sarvamangala, shankari, shanti, siddhida, swaha, swadha, varuni, vijaya, vrishaba vahana and yakshini came out from the goddess as well. also mahasaraswati, chandavigrah, savitri and trishi came out. some other goddesses named mrityu devi, saranyu, vayu devi and ganeshi came out of the goddess successfully. when the shaktis destroyed one hundred aksauhini forces, mridangas, conch-shells, lutes and other musical instruments were sounded in the battle-field. at this time, the enemy of the gods, durgamasur, came in front and first fought with the shaktis. the fight grew to such a terrible extent that, within ten days, all the aksauhini troops were destroyed. so much so as the blood of the dead soldiers began to flow in torrents like rivers. when the fatal eleventh day arrive the demon, wearing red clothes on his waist, red garlands on his neck and anointing his body all over with red sandal paste, celebrated a very grand festivity and mounted on his chariot and went out to fight. all the shaktis of goddess parvati all merged into her body altogether. then a terrible fight ensued for two praharas (six hours). the hearts of all shivered with horror. at this time, the goddess shot fifteen very awful arrows at the demon. his four horses were pierced by her four arrows; the charioteer was pierced by one arrow; his two eyes were pierced by two arrows; his arms by two arrows, his flag by one arrow and his heart was pierced by five arrows. he then left his body before the goddess, vomiting blood. the vital spirit, the luminous counterpart, emitting from his body, merged in the space-like body of the goddess. the three worlds, then, assumed a peaceful appearance when that greatly powerful demon was killed. then hari, hara, brahma and the other devas began to praise and chant hymns to the world mother with great devotion and in voices, choked with feelings. thus when brahma, vishnu, hara and the other gods praised and chanted various hymns to the devi and worshipped her with various excellent articles, she became instantly pleased. then the devi, graciously pleased, handed over the vedas to the sages. at last, she, the cuckoo-voiced, made a special address to them. she enlightened them all about the vedas and advised them to read the excellent deeds of the supreme goddess, she will be pleased and will appear in any form and will destroy all dangers. her name is durga, because she has killed the wicked demon durgamasur. thus giving pleasures to the gods by these words, the devi of the nature of existence, intelligence and bliss disappeared before them.
shakambhari