deity

Sekhmet

Beings

The named Egyptian lioness goddess of plague, war heat, and fierce healing. Not Bastet as the milder feline form, and not lion as animal.

Also known as Sakhmet

Egyptian religion

  • Sekhmet appears in Egyptian religion.

    The Book of the Dead names Sekhmet among dangerous lioness powers and heat the dead must answer — a named fiery goddess presence in funerary speech, not Bastet’s milder cat form and not a generic desert heat dump.

    from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972

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  • Lion is sacred to Sekhmet.

    The Book of the Dead’s dangerous lioness power seats the lion as Sekhmet’s animal — sacred dedication in funerary heat speech, not lion appears_in egyptian alone and not a Bastet cat flatten.

    from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972

    sacred to · sourced · culturally specific

sources

  • Book of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)

    Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.