Sekhmet

Bast and Sekhmet Bast was a goddess in Ancient Egypt. She was worshipped as part of the Ancient Egyptian religion. She was a major goddess. She was the patron goddess of cats, protection against contagious diseases and evil spirits, love, and family. She is also closely linked with Sekhmet and they are sometimes considered to be two sides of the same coin, so to speak. Sekhmet was also a major goddess. She was the goddess of fire, war, vengeance and medicine, and she was often depicted as a lioness. Bast is considered a lunar deity, and Sekhmet is a solar deity. They are both said to be the mother of Nefertum and the wife of Ptah. Although Bast was generally thought of as a domestic cat goddess in earlier times, she is also depicted as a lion or desert…

to Set those are the Nile carp and the Oxyrhynchus because they ate eaten a part of Osiris body after Set had ripped him apart. Hathor Hathor is the goddess of cows,sky,dance,love,beauty,joy,motherhood,foreign lands,mining,music,and fertility. She is thought to be the Milky Way, which is sometimes called the milk that flows from the udders of a heavenly cow. Since she is also a sky goddess she is called “ Lady of Stars ” and “ Sovereign of Stars ”. Hathor’s symbols are…

believed to have been born when he was spit out by Nit {goddess of weaving, war, and hunting) into the dark waters of Nu, the god of chaos. Her saliva turned into the great snake, but the evil in his mind came from Nu, most likely. Egyptian hieroglyphs that contain Apep almost always show a large snake being cut with a knife. Serpents were the face of darkness in Egypt. Their slim, legless bodies were a new and awkward concept to Egyptians, so they thought of snakes as demonic animals.…

caricaturesque style extended past the royal family to all human figures, albeit in a less severely exaggerated style than the family. It is suggested that Akhenaten wanted such an effeminate style for the depictions of himself in order to emphasise that he was the mother and father of the nation, the god on earth who “created his subjects with his ka”. This also related back to Akhenaten’s desire to be more accurately portrayed like the Aten, who at this stage was the beginning and end of the…

“She is the consort of Azazel! You don’t think I have a valid reason for wanting to destroy her before she produces offspring just as dangerous as the seirim!” “Seirim?” I asked. She slapped her head, frustrated. “Do you not know anything about what you are getting yourself into?” “Azazel mentioned them once, but did not elaborate” “The seirim are legends. They are goat demons who dwell in the desert. They are the offspring of Azazel and his first wife Naamah, who also slept with Semjaza.”…

Located in the west wing of the San Antonio Museum of Art, standing at 6 feet tall, is the statue of Egyptian goddess, Sekhmet. The statue, which is made from granodiorite dates back to the 18th dynasty (New Kingdom) circa 1390-1352 BC during the reign of Amenhotep lll (Art, San Antonio Museum of. "San Antonio Museum of Art - Sekhmet." San Antonio Museum of Art - Sekhmet. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Oct. 2016). Many seated statues of Sekhmet were made for Amenhotep III’s funerary complex near Thebes.…

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…

called the ‘messengers’ or ‘slaughterers’ of Sekhmet. (Wilinson 2003 cited Friedman 2015, pg 9) According to Friedman, only two plagues have “no direct or veiled association with Sekhmet” as apparent in the Torah. In his article, “AND UPON ALL THE GODS OF EGYPT I WILL EXECUTE JUDGMENT”: THE EGYPTIAN DEITY IN THE TEN PLAGUES, Ira Friedman discusses how Sekhmet was used as a proxy for the other deities of Egypt to be proved powerless to protect and how easily they could be overtaken by the One…

The Utchat was used for Ra’s vengeance. She came close to destroying the world but was tricked into drinking a blood colored beer that put her to sleep and gave her a hangover. This stopped the destruction of the world. She was linked to the other goddesses that were also considered to be the “eye of Ra”, Sekhmet, Hathor, Tefnut, Nut, Wadjet and Mut. She was more closely associated with Sekhmet because they both had cat-like forms. Both goddesses were also married to Ptah and the mother of…

The origin of this image is highly debated. It is held by many deities, in particular Atum: Atum was the first and most important Ancient Egyptian god to be worshiped in Iunu Atum was the father of the gods, creating the first divine couple, Shu and Tefnut, from whom all the other gods are descended., the sun-god of Heliopolis where he sat and Sekhmet: Sekhmet is one of the oldest known Egyptian deities. As an amulet, the Ankh is worn for both good luck or fortune and to protect against bad…