Celestial Origin :Canis Major
Associated: Mother Goddess, love beauty, vengeance
Period of Worship: from the old Kingdom Circa 2700 bce until the end of Kemetic History
AKA: Sekmet, eye of Ra
Centers of Worship Dendara, Giza, Thebes
The Eye of Ra
The Mother Goddess, the mother of the Pharaoh
In Hinduism, cows are thought to be sacred, or deeply respected. They are held in high esteem and Hindus worship cows. Cows are seen as a 'caregiver' or maternal figure. One Hindu goddess, Bhoomi (à¤ुमि), is usually shown in the form of a cow. She represents the Earth. Most Hindus respect cows for their gentle nature, and also represent strength. Hindus who eat meat will avoid eating beef.
There is a festival to thank cows for serving farmers for agriculture, This festival is called as "Mattupongal" which is one among the four days of the grand Indian festival called the Pongal which is completely focused on thanking each and every agricultural implement.
The
Uraeus is a symbol for the goddess Wadjet.[2] She was one of the earliest
Egyptian deities and was often depicted as a cobra, as she is the serpent
goddess. The center of her cult was in Per-Wadjet, later called Buto by the
Greeks.[3] She became the patroness of the Nile Delta and the protector of all
of Lower Egypt.[4] The pharaohs wore the uraeus as a head ornament: either with
the body of Wadjet atop the head, or as a crown encircling the head; this
indicated Wadjet's protection and reinforced the pharaoh's claim over the land.
In whatever manner that the Uraeus was displayed upon the pharaoh's head, it
was, in effect, part of the pharaoh's crown. The pharaoh was recognized only by
wearing the Uraeus, which conveyed legitimacy to the ruler. There is evidence
for this tradition even in the Old Kingdom during the third millennium BCE.[5]
Several goddesses associated with or being considered aspects of Wadjet are
depicted wearing the uraeus as well.
At
the time of the unification of Egypt, the image of Nekhbet, the goddess who was
represented as a white vulture and held the same position as the patron of
Upper Egypt, joined the image of Wadjet on the Uraeus that would encircle the
crown of the pharaohs who ruled the unified Egypt. The importance of their
separate cults kept them from becoming merged as with so many Egyptian deities.
Together, they were known as the Nebty or the Two Ladies, who became the joint
protectors and patrons of the unified Egypt.[2]
Later,
the pharaohs were seen as a manifestation of the sun god Ra, and so it also was
believed that the Uraeus protected them by spitting fire on their enemies from
the fiery eye of the goddess.[citation needed] In some mythological works, the
eyes of Ra are said to be uraei. Wadjets existed long before the rise of this
cult when they originated as the eye of Wadjet as a cobra. Wadjets are also the
name of the symbols called the Eye of the Moon, Eye of Hathor, the Eye of
Horus, and the Eye of Ra—depending upon the dates of the references to the
symbols.[citation needed]
As
the Uraeus was seen as a royal symbol, the deities Horus and Set were also
depicted wearing the symbol on their crowns. In early ancient Egyptian
mythology, Horus would have been the name given to any king as part of the many
titles taken, being identified as the son of the goddess Isis. According to the
later mythology of Re, the first Uraeus was said to have been created by the
goddess Isis, who formed it from the dust of the earth and the spittle of the
then-current sun deity.[citation needed] In this version of the mythology, the
Uraeus was the instrument with which Isis gained the throne of Egypt for
Osiris. Isis is associated with and may be considered an aspect of Wadjet.[2]
