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148 the Egyptians considered the Sinai peninsula to have been the do- main of Hathor. All the temples and stelae erected by Egyptian Pharaohs in the peninsula were dedicated exclusively to this goddess. And. like Ninharsag in her later years. Hathor, loo, was nicknamed "The Cow" and was depicted with cow's horns. But was Hathor also—as we have claimed for Ninharsag— Mistress of the Great Pyramid? That, amazingly but not surpris- ingly, she was. The evidence comes in the form of an inscription by the Pharaoh Khufu (circa 2600 B.C.) on a commemorative stela he erected at Giza in a temple dedicated to Isis. Known as the Inventory Stela, the monument and its inscription clearly establish that the Great Pyramid (and the Sphinx) had already existed when Khufu (Cheops) began to reign. All he claimed was to have built the tem- ple to Isis beside the already existing Pyramid and Sphinx: Live Horus Mezdau. To king of Upper and Lower Egypt. Khufu. Life is given! He founded the House of Isis. Mistress of the Pyramid, beside the House of the Sphinx. At his time. then. Isis (the wife of Osiris and the mother of Ho- j - r A have been the "Mistress of the Pyramid" - = . But as the continuing inscription makes clear, she was not the Pyramid's first mistress: To king of Upper and Lower Egypt. Khufu. Life is given! For his divine mother Isis. Thus, not only was the Pyramid a "Mountain of Hathor"—the exact parallel of the Sumerian "House Which Is Like a Moun- tain"—but also it was her western mountain, implying that she also had an eastern one. That, we know from the Sumerian sources, was the Har-Sag, the highest peak in the Sinai peninsula. ok Kk THE WARS OF GODS AND MEN Live Horus Mezdau. Mistress of "Die Western Mountain of Hathor, " he made [this] writing on a stela.