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Naked woman or with a subtle garment, stood or mounted in the loin of a lion. In her hands she takes lotus flowers and snakes, symbols of Min and Reshef. For her identification with Hathor, she can take liriformes horns, solar disc and in the hands a sistro. Sometimes it carries on the head a disc with increasing spot or stars.
It is present in Egypt from the Average Kingdom and is consolidated in the Egyptian pantheon from the New Kingdom, fruit of the popular fervor, in most cases of the Asian settlers who were living in Egypt in this moment. It was adored especially in working villages and, especially, in those cities in charge of the work in the necropolis of the kings. She was related to love and sexual pleasure, for what, to adapt her to the Egyptian pantheon, she suffered a clear assimilation with Hathor.
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