09/03/2021
SEKHMET
Sekhmet was called the great lady, beloved of Ptah, holy one, powerful one. She was both wife and sister to Ptah, a common situation in Egyptian mythology.
Usually she was depicted with the body of a woman and the head of a lioness. Her headpiece consisted of a solar disk, which associated her with the sun god and cobra.
Her physical description and her name, which meant to be strong, mighty, violent, reflected her character: she was renowned for her violence and power.
The Book of the Dead attributed her power to her use of the destructive forces of the sun’s heat and also associated her with the hot winds of heaven.
Other sources associated the hot winds of the desert with her breath.
She was a goddess of war and accompanied the king into battle, her weapons were arrows, swift darts, and the fiery heat of her own body. Which supposedly derived from the heat of the sun.
She said of herself:
" I am the fierce heat of the fire for distance of millions of cubits between Osiris and his enemy, and I keep away from him the evil ones and remove his foes from his habilitation.”
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