Sekhmet

Goddess known as The Powerful One, she is a lioness goddess, daughter of RA. In Memphis she formed part of the Memphite triad together with PTAH as her consort and NEFERTUM (otherwise the son of BASTET) as her son. She is depicted either as a lioness or in human form with the head of a lioness. She was generally shown crowned by the solar disk, holding the Ankh (life) symbol or a sceptre in the shape of a papyrus reed. In Thebes Sekhmet came to be combined with MUT, the consort of the Theban sun god AMUN. A warrior goddess, she was said to breathe fire at the enemies of the Pharaoh. Like the goddess HATHOR, Sekhmet could become the ‘eye of Ra,’ an agent of the sun god’s punishment. She was believed to be the bearer of plague and pestilence, but in a more benign aspect she was called upon in spells and amulets to ward off disease

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