19/36.- Abu Simbel, Hathor Temple, Ramses statue

Here we have our hero again: Ramses II with the double crown of Higher and Lower Egypt. But remember that the temple was dedicated to Hathor.

Hathor was the goddess of love, of women and of fertility. She was strongly associated with motherhood, and her principal animal form was that of a cow. She was a goddes similar to the Greeks' Aphrodite.

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