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                              Egyptian Selket

                             The Mother Goddess
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                                   Venus

   Of the five visible planets, ancient astronomers associate only one
   with the great mother. That planet is Venus.

   The following goddess figures are also associated with the planet
   Venus:  the Sumerian Inanna, the Babylonian Ishtar, the Canaanite
   Anath, the Egyptian Isis, Hathor, and Sekhmet, the Scandinavian Freya,
   the Greek Aphrodite, and the Latin Venus.

   Why should the planet Venus be inextricably linked to the archetype of
   the goddess.  There is no distinctly feminine attribute of Venus in
   our sky today!

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