Sunday, June 22, 2008





Quite naturally an area on the first terrace of Hatshepsut´s temple honors the goddess Hathor. It is thought that this is the reason some reliefs of Hatshepsut remain for it is one thing to erase the image of your predecessor but desecrating those things dedicated to the gods is something entirely different. Notice that though she is given a face she still retains the ears of the cow.

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