I was perusing job sites and saw an ad for a place called Novo Nordisk. check out their logo:
That’s Hathor!
Hathor has been associated with Kom el-Hisn and is in part a cow goddess (KeH has been linked to the Estate of the Cattle in the Delta) and is associated with Re/Ra, the sun god as seen in the sun disk between the horns.
I’m not entirely sure why a pharma company chose this for a logo, I don’t recall Hathor being associated with medicine, drugs, etc. although she has been linked to “inspiration”, so maybe that’s it.
The answer to your question lies within the Novo Nordisk website (below), “The choice of the logo follows an old European chemist’s tradition of identifying pharmacies by an animal symbol.” Out of all the other pharma logos out there, this one is pretty cool.
http://www.novonordisk.com/about_us/our_logo/our_logo.asp
Comment by Cynthia Young — October 9, 2009 @ 2:33 pm