Cow-mother

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  1. 1
    A personification of a maternal cow worshipped as a goddess.

    "A new generation has appeared, and the universal feminine is expressed not so much as Hathor, the cow-mother, but as Isis, the wife and consort."

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"A new generation has appeared, and the universal feminine is expressed not so much as Hathor, the cow-mother, but as Isis, the wife and consort."

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