But while the Egyptian gods are no longer ... was protected by the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet, who also nourished him in the form of Hathor, the cow, who carried the sun between her horns.

but in later Egyptian mythology the cow takes on a prominent role in religion, worshipped as the powerful cow goddess Bat. She is typically shown with the face of a woman and the ears and horns of ...

We may wonder whether the power that Minos really had to appease, when he became newly ensconced as King on Crete in 2000 BC, might not have been that of a female deity like the Egyptian Cow goddess ...