What did our ancestors think when they looked up at the night sky? All cultures ascribed special meaning to the Sun and the Moon, but what about the pearly band of light and shadow we call the Milky W ...

but in later Egyptian mythology the cow takes on a prominent role in religion, worshipped as the powerful cow goddess Bat. She is typically shown with the face of a woman and the ears and horns of ...

But while the Egyptian gods are no longer ... was protected by the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet, who also nourished him in the form of Hathor, the cow, who carried the sun between her horns.