. The Mythology of all races .. . tothe group of the seven Hat-hors whoforetell the future, especially of everychild at his birth. The suspicion thatthese seven fates were originally the Plei-ades, which, among certain other nations,were the constellation of human fate (es-pecially of ill-omened fate), and also theforetellers of the harvest, is confirmedwhen we find the seven Hat-hor cows with their bull; for the Pleiades are inthe constellation of Taurus. Since thiszodiacal sign Is not Egyptian, the NewEmpire probably borrowed from Asia the connexion of con-stellations which we have described
. The Mythology of all races .. . tothe group of the seven Hat-hors whoforetell the future, especially of everychild at his birth. The suspicion thatthese seven fates were originally the Plei-ades, which, among certain other nations,were the constellation of human fate (es-pecially of ill-omened fate), and also theforetellers of the harvest, is confirmedwhen we find the seven Hat-hor cows with their bull; for the Pleiades are inthe constellation of Taurus. Since thiszodiacal sign Is not Egyptian, the NewEmpire probably borrowed from Asia the connexion of con-stellations which we have described, although they failed tounderstand it. Various efforts were made to localize thesingle forms of these seven Hat-hors in Egyptian cities.^* At an early period Hat-hor assimilated various other god-desses. The name of Bat(.), the female deity of the city ofDIospolis Parva, was written with a similar symbol or withone embodying Hat-hors head; later this symbol was identi-fied with the great goddess Hat-hor herself and was explained. Fig. 30. The Goddess ofDiospoLis Parva OTHER GODS CONNECTED WITH NATURE 41
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