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About Nathor
Before the Pharoahs, She was.....

Predynastic Egyptians seems to share the worship of a universal Mother Goddess. In this particular case the identity of the Goddess is probably a composite of the Queen of Heaven/Moon Goddess and the Lady of the Beasts. These archetypes are often represented by votive figurines belonging to the category called "Great Woman with Upraised Arms" which are found wherever archetypal figures of the Feminine exist. The upright arms are a magical gesture associated with both the evocation and appearance of the Deity, and can be interpreted as the posture of epiphany at the moment when the Goddess appears. The gesture is also associated with the ancient female mystery rite of Drawing Down the Moon.

This figurine is a composite replica of a series of images found scatted from Libya to Egypt. Dated to the predynastic period of the 4th millenium BCE, they also find an echo in vase and even cave wall paintings clear back into Paleolithic Algeria. The culture that produced Her was a sophisticated group of herding people who followed the great herds of wild cattle along the corridor of habitable grassland between the sea and the Sahara desert on the North African coast and into the Nile valley.

This Goddess survived into the later historical Egyptian pantheons in a variety of forms and under various names. As the Great Mother who gave birth to all the gods, She was call Nut, Nuit, or Nathor. It is generally recognized that when Egyptian heiroglypic writing was codified by 3,300 BCE, it was already fully developed into a combination of signs for established ideas. Thus upraised arms were the recognized symbol for spiritual manifestation.

~~~Written by Morning Glory Zell