Dandar
Side chapels and underground crypts
The sanctuary surrounds 11 chapels dedicated to various deities, which confer upon Hathor the attributes of her divinity: holy sistrum (kind of rattle) and a menat necklace, symbolizing the healing power. The entrance to them is located in the Mystery Corridor that runs around the sanctuary. Just above the entrance to the corridor, Hathor is depicted as a cow in a wooden naose on a sacred barge [r]. Next are the chapels of Nomu of Dandara, then the chapel of Isis, Sokarisa,
Harsomtusa, and at the very corner the chapel of Sistrum Hathor [s], where the niches show Hathor and the coronation of her son Iha as the god of music. You enter through Per-Nu's dark hall [t], where the goddess boarded a barge before traveling to Edfu.
In other reliefs, Hathor is accompanied by Isis and Maat. Next to it is the Per-Ur Chapel [u], where the New Year's procession began (19 July). Behind the chapel, located exactly on the axis of the sanctuary, lies the tiny Hathor shrine.
Outside the building, ears are carved on the wall, with which the goddess heard the prayers of the faithful.
Next to the Per-Ur Chapel is the Per-Neser Chapel, sanctuary of the Throne of Re [v], where from along with the ranger (necessary bakshish) you can go down to a narrow crypt, decorated with images of I lathor, menat necklaces and lotus flowers, symbols of love. In the chapel, the goddess was depicted in a sinister incarnation of a lioness. Next to the sanctuary of the Throne of Re is the Chapel of Re [w], where valuable items were stored. To reach the so-called. clean place [x], that is, the New Year's chapel, one should enter the passage from the Enneada room, from there to the so-called. Courtyard of the First Celebration.
Roof sanctuary
Before leaving the temple, be sure to visit the roof top sanctuary by stairs from both ends of the Hall of Sacrifice. The west staircase is decorated with symbols of the goddess and various aspects of the New Year celebration.
On the south-west side of the roof there is a solar kiosk with 12 hatoric columns, called the Disc Chapel, where the statue of Hathor waited for the first touch of the sun's ray, a reviving goddess for another year. Other chambers on the roof, behind the facade of the hypostyle hall, also served to renew the deity's strength (not all available). The rooms are small and dark, but decorated with reliefs. In one of them (on the south side; on the left) the images of Osiris in the mara have been preserved, where Isis and Nephtyda perform magical revival rituals. God passes through a magic gate to the land of the dead, to be resurrected and fertilize Isis. The first chamber shows scenes with Osiris' funeral gifts (urny kanopskie): on the ceiling you can see Nut and the astronomical signs again. On the second part of the ceiling there is a copy of the famous Zodiac of Dandara (Louvre). The zodiac is an image of the cosmic aspects in the mysteries of Osiris.
Hathor
Hathor (this name means the House of Horus), is the Egyptian goddess of heaven appearing as a cow or a woman with a gtowa (horns) cows and a solar disk. She acted as the mummy of Horus, so she was the nurse of the pharaohs. Some myths made Hathor the mother of Horus, although it was commonly Isis. In Dandar, the main place of her worship, she was worshiped as the wife of Horus. Once a year she made a pilgrimage to Edfu for the Feast of a Beautiful Meeting with her husband.
After arriving at the temple, there were sumptuous celebrations, after which the divine couple consumed their relationship, from which a son was born – Harsomtus. The faithful took part in the great Drunkenness Festival, celebration of the wedding night of the divine couple. Hathor was the goddess of love and dance, but also the goddess of the dead (w Ad Dajr al Bahri). In Memłis she was the Lady of Sycamore, in Upper Egypt – goddess of palms, she was worshiped as the Lady of Nubia, Point, Byblos, Sinai and Turquoise (guardian of miners).
Its attribute was sistrum (rattle). The Egyptians also believed in the Seven Hathors – deities who determine the fate of the newborn.
In the Late Period it was believed, that the woman identifies herself with Hathor after her death, just like the man with Osiris. The Greeks identified her with Aphrodite.