Egyptian goddess Sekhmet
Sekhmet is the Egyptian goddess of the sun, war, destruction, plagues and healing.
She is one of the oldest deities and one of the most powerful. Her husband Ptah, the god of creation and wisdom and son Nefertum, the god of sunrise. Her name may also be spelled as Sakhet, Sekmet, Sachmet, Sakhmet, Sekhet or Sacmis in Greek that translates to “the Powerful One”.
She is often represented as a woman wearing a red dress with the head of a lioness wearing a sun disc circled by a cobra on her head. She often holds the ankh (key) – the symbol of life, when seated. When standing or striding, she is seen holding the papyrus specter symbolizing Lower Egypt.
As a sun goddess, she is connected with the scorching, searing …show more content…
Everyone drank beer stained with pomegranate as they worship Sekhmet: “The Mistress and Lady of the Tomb”, “The Gracious One”, “The Destroyer of Rebellion”, and “The Mighty One of Enchantments.
Being the mother of a healing goddess, Sekhmet has her healing and protective aspects. While she may bring about disease and plague to those who wrong her as the Lady of Pestilence, she is also a master of the art of medicine as she provides the cure to various ailments she may have brought to man. She was the patron goddess of all healers and physicians. In fact, her priests were known to be very skilled doctors. As a result, the gruesome “Lady of Terror” becomes the benevolent “The Lady of Life”.
According to the scholars, most of the statues came from the actually site, but some possibly came from the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III on the west bank of the Nile. Today the statues can be found in various museums across the globe: in Philadelphia, the UPenn Museum; in Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts has one seated statue, the Cairo Museum has six statues, and in London, the British Museum has thirty statues, just to name a few
Sekhmet is the Egyptian goddess of the sun, war, destruction, plagues and healing.
She is one of the oldest deities and one of the most powerful. Her husband Ptah, the god of creation and wisdom and son Nefertum, the god of sunrise. Her name may also be spelled as Sakhet, Sekmet, Sachmet, Sakhmet, Sekhet or Sacmis in Greek that translates to “the Powerful One”.
She is often represented as a woman wearing a red dress with the head of a lioness wearing a sun disc circled by a cobra on her head. She often holds the ankh (key) – the symbol of life, when seated. When standing or striding, she is seen holding the papyrus specter symbolizing Lower Egypt.
As a sun goddess, she is connected with the scorching, searing …show more content…
Everyone drank beer stained with pomegranate as they worship Sekhmet: “The Mistress and Lady of the Tomb”, “The Gracious One”, “The Destroyer of Rebellion”, and “The Mighty One of Enchantments.
Being the mother of a healing goddess, Sekhmet has her healing and protective aspects. While she may bring about disease and plague to those who wrong her as the Lady of Pestilence, she is also a master of the art of medicine as she provides the cure to various ailments she may have brought to man. She was the patron goddess of all healers and physicians. In fact, her priests were known to be very skilled doctors. As a result, the gruesome “Lady of Terror” becomes the benevolent “The Lady of Life”.
According to the scholars, most of the statues came from the actually site, but some possibly came from the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III on the west bank of the Nile. Today the statues can be found in various museums across the globe: in Philadelphia, the UPenn Museum; in Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts has one seated statue, the Cairo Museum has six statues, and in London, the British Museum has thirty statues, just to name a few