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The image shows the skull of a cow, sacred image of Hathor in ancient Egypt, symbolizing both the dawn of every day and the beginning of life itself, alter ego of Isis, who symbolized the day itself, and all of life, to whom the cow was also sacred. The holy icon stands upright in the midst of a fountain, lit from within, living water flowing from beneath the dead skull. The skull is veiled behind a pane of iridescent glass, obscuring its features slightly with a rainbow of color reminiscent of the soft light of dawn or the sky after rain.
Implicit in the cult of Hathor and Isis, twin avatars of our universal mother, the hawthorn fruit representing her sacred heart of love and compassion still recognizable in many modern forms, the foundation stones of burgeoning life, was the other side of life, the descent into that good night we so often fear. Somewhere in the Sahara, the universal desert to the West of Egypt, lies the very mouth of Nut, the night sky, into which gaping maw the Sun itself will pass at the end of very day.