Egyptian Gods

Sekhmet is an ancient Egyptian Goddess of War from Upper Egypt and known as Sacmis in Greek. The name Sekhmet also spelled as Sachmet, Sakhet, Sekmet, Sakhmet or Sekhet, whose name means “The Powerful One” and show her as one of the most powerful of the gods and goddesses. She was also given the titles such as Lady of the Palace of the Beginning of Time, the Mistress of Dread, Lady of Flame and the Lady of Slaughter.

Sekhmet appearance portrayed as a lioness headed woman with a headdress of a sun disk circled by cobra and dressed in red. She was created by the fire of Ra’s eye the sun god. Her husband Ptah the god of wisdom and her son Nefertum the god of sunrise.

Sekhmet identified with the Goddess Bastet, where both of them with head of lionesses. Sekhmet called as the Goddess of the West dressed in red and Bastet know as the goddess of East dressed in green.

In the story of Ra, Sekhmet was created by Ra as a weapon of vengeance to punish men for their wicked ways and to destroy the man who disobedience to him. She was called the “Eye of Ra” but later Ra transformed her into a peaceful goddess of love, pleasure and happiness, Hathor who the personalities were totally opposite.

As the warrior goddess, she accompanied the pharaoh into battle and destroys the enemies and she was also the healer. Sometimes she was invoked to avoid plague and cure disease. Sekhmet is the triad goddess of Memphis with Ptah, and Nefertum.