The following comes from:
Barbara Ann Richter,
"The Theology of Hathor of Dendera: Aural and Visual Scribal Techniques in
the Per-Wer Sanctuary" (PhD Dissertation; University of California, Berkeley,
Spring 2012), 189
The polyptoton on the root r', "sun, " first as the feminine singular substantive, R'y.t, "Female Sun," and then as the plural substantive, r’w, "suns," emphasizes not only that Hathor is the sun, but also that she is mistress of all other solar deities. Furthermore, because Kauket represents darkness, it is appropriate that she praises Hathor as the "Female Sun," the bringer of light. Seen in the context of the Ogdoad's worship of the sun at sunrise, the text, iconography, and imagery of the adoration scene on the Perwer entrance allude to Hathor as the rising sun at its first illumination of the earth, the cosmogony from Hermopolis having been adapted to fit the theology of Dendera.
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