Props:
Mirror and Ank

Costume and symbols:
1 pearl beaded gown, beaded and jeweled collar, beaded and jeweled breast piece, two jeweled cuffs, two brass arm bands, black Egyptian wig, jeweled headress, brass and copper cow horn and sun, platform sandals, heavy Egyptian eye makeup. Hathor is the Ancient Egyptian Goddess of women, beauty, birth, music, dance, and drunkeness. She is the Cow Goddess, the Golden One. Her symbols are cow horns, cow ears, mirror, sistrum frame drum. She Hathor/Isis represents the eternal feminine.

Music:
An edited version of the song called Shems (2nd cut from Rapture Rumi Cd by Steven Flynn).

Orientation:
When addressing the directions the ancient Egyptians stood facing South so that is where our movement meditation will begin. The reasoning is simple the Nile was the source of everything and it flowed from the South to the North.

The word for left was the same for east. The word for front was the same for South. The name for right was the same for west. The word for behind was the same for North.

We will begin facing the SOUTH because we are beginning within this Goddess’s personification, in other words standing in the guise of the Goddess (where your left is her left.). When we finish we will feel the flow of our blessings, prayers, wishes and intentions flowing through you towards highest source of all creation in the NORTH. This emulates a mirroring effect. The mirror is one of Hathor's magic symbols for contemplation.

Imagine a line dividing the goddesses body down the middle and another across the shoulders along her outstretched arms. You shall be aware of four quadrants of space in which to be mindful of when preforming especially the first sections.

The Dance

Music cue: didgereedoo begins. Fig. 1 2 3

Hathor hold hands up with palms forward or with props of a mirror and an Ankh in hand. Eyes are closed. Slowly they open. When they are fully open the props are raised and then either taken or put down . Hathor’s hands rise skyward, then extend gently to the sides in a palm forward, horizontal position. Wait for first call of the nye.

Music: 1st nye voice. Fig. 4 5 6 7 8

Right hand turn down as the left hand simultaneously turns up and proceeds in a vertical curve. The right hand turns at the thigh; left hand will turn over head.
Then the hands move on a vertical line along the front of the body in a vertical curve, pass each other at the center of the body, and move into opposing vertical positions: right overhead, left at thigh. Then they move in reverse back to eye level They overlap by moving in, right over left, in front of eyes, then turn horizontal and slowly slide to out -stretched horizontal position to await next call of the nye.

Music: 2nd nye voice. Fig. 9 10 11 12

Similarly left hand moves down, right moves upward until left is at the side of thigh and right is overhead and to the right a little. They turn and move diagonally across the front of the body to opposite positions and then around to out-stretched horizontal arm position again. Pause.

The hands then turn down,. The right hand is in a fist while the left hand is open like a wrench. They slowly descend arching down toward the vulva, pause slightly with isometric tension, then abruptly connect with impact! Slowly hands transform into an opening forming a triangle (point down).

Music: 3rd a groan of the didgereedo and a call of the nye. Fig. 16 17

Upon inhalation the triangle begins to rise up center front, , close to the body to heart level ( palms facing body), then extend forward upon exhalation, back in on inhalation.

Music: with didgereedo droning only, nye is silent. Fig. 18 19 20 21 22 23

Hands gracefully burst up and out to the sides by ears and then circle around down to vulva area (elbows stable). Hands form a triangle ( point ).
Now the triangle rises slowly upward, pausing slightly at the mouth level, then moving above the forehead where hands assume pod position (above 7th chakra). Then they slide into six opposing undulations; hands invert direction in front of upper chest at fourth and the seventh is represented as a downward pod position (1st base chakra). Pause and awaits next nye voice.

Music: To the drone of the didgereedoo (nye & rattle). Fig. 24 25 26 27

Right hand moves in a loop design over the shoulder and the palm pushes to the right side and hold. The face turns with it to profile. The hand moves to half a triangle shape in front of the heart position and hold. Face returns forward.
Left hand does the same thing to the left and completes the triangle or heart shape of the hands. Music: Rattle at heart position

Music: 4th nye voicings. Fig. 28

Then hands burst quickly into a position at the side of head, elbows stay put, fingers are out and wrists draw toward ear level in an arch, they quickly circle out and around to make a 1-1/8 circle and hold. Then again quickly to another 1-1/8 circle (this creates three consecutive poses around body ( roughly ear level, breast level and belly level). Then the hands loop up toward the body on the outside (elbows in) and press down, palms facing the ground, wrists bent and finger tips out).

Fig 29 30

Slowly the right hand leads a design that loops to the side at lower torso level then moves up, palm out, loops at cheek level, then arches out with wrists open and in toward toward head. Hold. Repeat movements with the left. Pause.

Fig. 31 32 33

The wrists lead with a slight isometric tension. They draw in and cross in front of the chest framing the face briefly and then extend outward horizontally with hand bent at wrist and with palms pushing outward. Wait and listen! (If you are using the second song from Rapture Rumi, you will hear the music intensify. Await next nye voice

Music: 2 Nye flutters. Fig. 34 35

Right hand responds by fluttering upward very fast (backward wrist rotation); then left follows on next voice, pause.

Music: Call and response. Fig. 36 37 38

Both hands carve undulation patterns; larger falling undulation down, followed by smaller undulation climbing upward. Repeat this 2-3 times Then the hands begin to sustain a trembling vibration motion that is called off by the trill of the nye.

Music: trill of the nye. Fig. 39

Hands race out horizontally and palms face down.

Music: nye voicings. Fig. 40 41 42

Imagine you are standing on the face of a clock. Body turns to the diagonal left (10:00).Elbows up and out, hands draw 5-6 sets of Buckles of Isis; big figure eights drawn with the hands: 2 sets diagonally to the left (10:00), 2 then to the right (2:00), 1-2 at center front (12:00).

Fig. 43 (set of 7)

Both arms sweep to the right side in unison as the body turns in profile to the right and comes down on bent knee with seven hand positions pressing out ( start with back stage arm), turn to face front on 7th.

Fig. 44 45

Followed by hieroglyphic positions (these are subject to change)
A) Salute: left arm arched over head, back of hand over third eye; right arm out- stretched up to right and hand flexed with palm facing down, hand hyperextended (arched)
B) Protection: Cross the body with hands vertical, right hand up at left shoulder, fingertips up, palm in; left hand down at right hip, fingertips down, palm in

Fig. 46 (set of 7)

Repeat set on the left: both arms sweep in unison to the left as the body turns in profile to the left and comes down on bent knee with seven hand positions pressing out

Repeat Hieroglyphic positions; Fig. 47 48

A) Salute
B) Protection

Fig. 49 50

With right arm at front hip; Turn to the right(2:00) as right curves around the body at chest level, left arm curved behind, then around the body to the left. Do one set diagonally to the right (2:00), the left (10:00), to the back left (7:00) and back right (5:00). Turn to the back (6:00), arms out-stretched to the sides, palms facing down.

Music: Fig 51 (set of 8)

The next set of four movements called lightning bolts, are done swiftly and strongly:

Fig. 52 53

Close hands to thighs, turn elbows and hands outward. Fold arms up slowly, elbows in, hands rise to touch fingertips to shoulders. Elbows in, hands move to shoulders, elbows rise as the backs of the hands touch back to back into a vertical bud shape at the back of the head, fingertips pointing down the spine.

Music ends. Fig. 53

Ending 1: Hathor holds position for a few moments in silent meditation until a chime or gong is struck.

Fig. 54 (set of 5)

Ending 2: Hathor holds position for a few moments in silent meditation, then arms rise gracefully up and out, hands open, and walks forward 3 steps as arms come around in a big circle. On the 4th step she sinks to kneeling position(saddle pose), head bowed, as wrists cross behind back. Meditate or make wishes know to oneself until chimes ring.