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level of fame and importance to that

Raet-Tawy of Hathor, who was also considered

Raet-Tawy is an ancient Egyptian to be the wife of Ra, or in some

solar goddess, best known as the myths Ra’s daughter. Raet-Tawy

female counterpart of Ra. Her name was portrayed as a human woman,

simply is the female form of the wearing a Hathor-like crown of a

name “Ra”. She has been a companion sun resting between two cow horns,

of Ra from the beginning, and with the protective serpent at its

did not have a separate origin of base. She was occasionally shown

her own. She was always with Ra, with the crest of a vulture, which

and will always be with him for all was the emblem of Upper Egypt,

eternity. Although she is called the after its protector-goddess. She

lady of the sky and the gods, she was shown with either a cow head,

was never able to receive the same linking her with Hathor, or a falcon