Sekhmet, Sekhmet, Eye of Re, Great of Flame, Lady Options

sxmt Sekhmet Sachmet Sekhet Nesert (Greek: Sachmis)

Sekhmet, whose name is believed to derive from sekhem meaning powerful, is one of ancient egypt's dangerous goddesses. She is portrayed as a woman with the head of a lion having the solar disk and uraeus as her headdress. She is often shown carrying a papyri staff and ankh.

Sekhmet is seen mainly as a deity of vengeance and pestilence that must be appeased, along with this however she is seen as a deity of protectiveness and healing; the pestilence she brings she can also take away. Sekhmet's priests were most commonly the physicians of ancient egypt. She is also often portrayed as the companion of the pharoah in battle, protecting him and bringing plague and pestilence upon the enemies of egypt.

She is most well known in the myth of the destruction of mankind. In this myth during Re's old age, humanity becames dissatisfied and in the desert rebels started to plot against him. Re was weary of rule and wanted to leave but had to deal with the rebels first. Re gathered a secret council of the gods, explained the situation and asked for their approval in eliminating humanity. The gods agreed that mankind deserved to die, and thus Hathor was transformed into the vengeful eye of Re, Sekhmet. Sekhmet hunted down all the rebels so that the desert ran red with their blood. By this time Re had decided to spare the rest of mankind. Sekhmet however was fond of human blood and was unstoppable since her power was such that not even Re dared confront her directly. To stop the destruction of mankind, Re ordered red orchre to be brought to Heliopolis where it was ground and added to vats of beer to turn it blood red. Re took seven thousand jars of the red beer to the field where Sekhmet was going to attack and flooded it. When Sekhmet came to the field she believed it to be human blood and drank until she got tanked and lost the desire to destroy mankind.

Sekhmet is responsible for the seven guardian demons (Sheseru,Ssr) who are said to embody the seven creative words as well as pestilence and plagues.

More information on sxmt http://www.lionessofthesun.com/Glossary/S/Sekhmet
Ditto http://showcase.netins.net/web/ankh/sekhsigntest.html
Littany to Sekhmet http://www.hwt-hrw.com/Sekhmet.php
Invocation of Sekhmet (French) http://www.esoterika.org/modules.php?name=...article&sid=514
Titled of hathor/Sekhmet http://www.hethert.org/titles.htm
Sekhmet the lion-headed (Neither informative nor particularly relevant, but i like it) http://www.bartleby.com/273/77.html

Sources that I can remember:
Daily Lives of the Egyptian Gods by Dimitri Meeks and Christine Favard-Meeks
Ancient Egypt Magazine December/January 2004/2005 : The Story of the Destruction of Mankind
The Ancient Gods Speak: a Guide to Egyptian Religion by Donald B.
Redford

Sekhmet Netjert (Goddess) of Healing "She Who Is Powerful". was the meaning of Skehmet name. She was the ancient female energy predating ptah by several hundred years. She was a dark Goddess in some of her aspects like the eye of Ra, the story goes she went out to punish the people for laughing at Ra. She began to kill the people and drink their blood. Skehmet is often pictured as a cat Goddess, with the head of a lion. So this blood thirsty behavior was quite in kind for a cat Goddess. But Ra took pity on the people and he tried to get Skehmet to quit killing his people. But she was in a blood thirsty rage and could not be stopped. So he tricked her by making a red beer. She drank the red beer thinking it was blood and fell into a sound sleep. When she awoke she felt remorse for what she had done and so she stopped the killing.
--Courtesy of http://www.gotojassminesitenow.com/goddesses/skehmet.html


Your imagination deceives you. Trust in this, that I have and can hold my own against most any god, especially one with such limited following as Seckhmet. What you see of her is but one face. Much like Shiva/Kali, Seckhmet has a very dark side. I am not judging by any means, for I too have two distinct sides. I merely thought one so dedicated to this goddess should be aware. If my concern was construed as offensive, then you have my apologies.

This post has been edited by Makavelli: Aug 10 2006, 02:37 PM

Sekhmet Netjert (Goddess) of Healing "She Who Is Powerful". was the meaning of Skehmet name. She was the ancient female energy predating ptah by several hundred years. She was a dark Goddess in some of her aspects like the eye of Ra, the story goes she went out to punish the people for laughing at Ra. She began to kill the people and drink their blood. Skehmet is often pictured as a cat Goddess, with the head of a lion. So this blood thirsty behavior was quite in kind for a cat Goddess. But Ra took pity on the people and he tried to get Skehmet to quit killing his people. But she was in a blood thirsty rage and could not be stopped. So he tricked her by making a red beer. She drank the red beer thinking it was blood and fell into a sound sleep. When she awoke she felt remorse for what she had done and so she stopped the killing.
--Courtesy of http://www.gotojassminesitenow.com/goddesses/skehmet.html


Your imagination deceives you. Trust in this, that I have and can hold my own against most any god, especially one with such limited following as Seckhmet. What you see of her is but one face. Much like Shiva/Kali, Seckhmet has a very dark side. I am not judging by any means, for I too have two distinct sides. I merely thought one so dedicated to this goddess should be aware. If my concern was construed as offensive, then you have my apologies.

I am most certainly not being deceived by my imagination. Perhaps you, who must only deal in godforms to think that a god's power is relative to their cult following, are being decieved to think that you are working with anything but a product of myth and human imagination, an imagination which must certainly decieve you. Godforms are limited to the knowledge of those who participate in their creation and as the average human is magically inept, even and perhaps especially the ego-ridden magician, godforms are nothing but large, poorly programmed egrigores and nothing more than reflections of myths, which are poor representations of the beings behind the myths if not knowledge veiled by stories of gods and divine beings and so not true beings to begin with at all..

This post has been edited by aDeadAnubis: Aug 10 2006, 10:57 PM

Sekhmet Netjert (Goddess) of Healing "She Who Is Powerful". was the meaning of Skehmet name. She was the ancient female energy predating ptah by several hundred years. She was a dark Goddess in some of her aspects like the eye of Ra, the story goes she went out to punish the people for laughing at Ra. She began to kill the people and drink their blood. Skehmet is often pictured as a cat Goddess, with the head of a lion. So this blood thirsty behavior was quite in kind for a cat Goddess. But Ra took pity on the people and he tried to get Skehmet to quit killing his people. But she was in a blood thirsty rage and could not be stopped. So he tricked her by making a red beer. She drank the red beer thinking it was blood and fell into a sound sleep. When she awoke she felt remorse for what she had done and so she stopped the killing.
--Courtesy of http://www.gotojassminesitenow.com/goddesses/skehmet.html


Your imagination deceives you. Trust in this, that I have and can hold my own against most any god, especially one with such limited following as Seckhmet. What you see of her is but one face. Much like Shiva/Kali, Seckhmet has a very dark side. I am not judging by any means, for I too have two distinct sides. I merely thought one so dedicated to this goddess should be aware. If my concern was construed as offensive, then you have my apologies.

I am most certainly not being deceived by my imagination. Perhaps you, who must only deal in godforms to think that a god's power is relative to their cult following, are being decieved to think that you are working with anything but a product of myth and human imagination, an imagination which must certainly decieve you. Godforms are limited to the knowledge of those who participate in their creation and as the average human is magically inept, even and perhaps especially the ego-ridden magician, godforms are nothing but large, poorly programmed egrigores and nothing more than reflections of myths, which are poor representations of the beings behind the myths if not knowledge veiled by stories of gods and divine beings and so not true beings to begin with at all..

You do not know me, do not make assumptions, as they make you appear ignorant. And from what I have read from you, I know you are not ignorant. You are incorrect in your assesment of godforms. Gods project forms that they desire other beings (including humans) to see. They are representations of theselves to create a psychological effect. All beings have a desired form. Their forms are not merely "human imagination". Perhaps your theory comes from an inability to use your astral sight. Perhaps you reason that if you cannot see them, they must in fact have no form. If this be the case, then it is not my ego in question, but your own. The notion that gods do not assume forms is as inaccurate as the belief that beings are simply representations of our higher selves. Your steadfast belief blinds you to possibilities, and that shall limit your magick. For all your talk of the ego, it appears, at least by this post, that you cannot see past your own. But, as you have so diligently portrayed, there is no reasoning with you on this matter. You will do what you will. Enjoy.

Once again, I was merely attempting to be kind. It is a new mentality for me, so if it came across poorly, I am sorry.

I imagine if you'd actually pissed her off you'd be dead now

BTW---
This is the statement I was replying to when saying that "your imagination deceives you". I do not fear gods nor should they drive fear into the heart of any good practioner.

This post has been edited by Makavelli: Aug 11 2006, 10:49 AM

Let's just say they're aliens and smoke blue lotuses and relax.

Which I would do anyway.

This post has been edited by aDeadAnubis: Aug 11 2006, 12:35 PM