The Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore.

Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.

I'm Amanda.

And I'm Julia.

And Amanda, we are back at it again here on denial isn't just a river in Egypt. It's also what we've

been doing by keeping an Egyptian mythology series from you on Spirits Podcast by Spirits Podcast.

You love to hear it. You're getting so good at this. Yeah, it's always like a deep breath. I feel like I'm running a marathon almost.

And the year's almost over.

So it's just like when you kind of like are on vacation and then you finally learn how to like lock the damn Airbnb and then it's time to go home.

And I have news for you too.

We're not the ending when the year is over because there's a lot more gods and goddesses for us to cover.

Hell yeah. But this episode, Amanda, we're going to be talking about a goddess that is giving mother.

Oh.

Quite literally in the sense, because we were talking about Hawthor.

Okay.

We talked about her.

Yes, we've talked about her casually in the past, I would say.

But Hawthor, the golden goddess, the helper of women giving birth, the dead to be reborn, the

renewer of the cosmos.

She is a mother, but she's also concert.

She's also daughter, Tara.

And her roles really kind of shift in change over time and depending on the story that is being told. So she kind of swings between this like very sexual figure and also a motherly one. It's a real like Madonna and horror situation before that was even a thing. But less problematic I hope. Yes, very much less problematic than that. But she is, for example, both said to be married to Horace, but she was also said to have nursed him during his infancy.

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