Sekhmet: The Egyptian Warrior Goddess | Egyptian Mythology (5)

Sekhmet was the Egyptian goddess of warriors and healing. In Egyptian mythology, she was known as a solar deity and was even called the daughter of Ra. Sekhmet was believed to protect the pharaohs in the times of fierce battle. Her protection even extended to the realms of the dead. Sekhmet was often associated with the goddess Hathor and Bastet.

As Sekhmet was considered to be the daughter of the almighty Ra, she was an important goddess that represented the vengeful aspects of his power, the Eye of Ra. She was believed to breathe fire and the hot winds of the desert were her making. Some sources even tell that Sekhmet was able to bring plague and diseases but she was also called upon to protect worshipers from them.

When it comes to etymology, Sekhmet’s name comes from an Ancient Egyptian word that means “power” or “might”. Her prominent epithets were the "(One) Before Whom Evil Trembles", "Mistress of Dread", "Lady of Slaughter" and "She Who Mauls".

Sekhmet is boundless and bloodcurdling. Her sheer power of the feminine energy terrifies. She resembles the Great Mother archetype in its protective and devouring polarities which leads us into a quote by Erich Neumann who says the following:

“Thus the Great Mother is uroboric: terrible and devouring, beneficent and creative; a helper, but also alluring and destructive; a maddening enchantress, yet a bringer of wisdom; bestial and divine, voluptuous harlot and inviolable virgin, immemori-ally old and eternally young.”

When it comes to festivals, one in Sekhmet’s honor was held in the city of Denderah. This festival was done with an aim to pacify the wrath of our goddess by indulging in dancing, playing, and ecstasy of lovemaking. Everyone drank beer stained with pomegranate as they worship Sekhmet

Sources:
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~ Heart of the Sun, An Anthology in Exaltation of Sekhmet, edited by Candace C. Kant and Anne Key

~ Robert Masters, Goddess Sekhmet: Psycho-Spiritual Exercises of the Fifth Way
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[hermeshub]

Who should be our next Egyptian God or Goddess?

[GoddessShawnaLane]

Hail to the Great Goddess Sekhmet 🙏🏾❤️🦁🌸

[MissDoreen]

Thanks for your lovely and informative Goddess content 😊 ❤

[mpress]

Spiritualy speaking (gender aside), matriarchal wisdom can begin with a fundamental understanding of the cyclical nature of reality (God).

Represented by the snake in many creation myths, the living cycle has a trinity of a beginning (head), a middle and end (tail). As above so below, the sexes were created in the image of God's cyclical nature where Mother is the head and opening to all beginnings and Father holds the tail to all endings (through which the sowing of seeds allow for the next great matriarchal rebirth).The joining of the two (symbolized by the Ouroborus or the marriage ring) is the sacred union needed in assuring the creation and continuation of new life cycles. To speak of the present day God as "Our Father" is simply an admission to our collective positioning within the bigger cycle.

As all Mother's have direct experience with the creator quality of birthing, so is the direct experience of rebirthing the divinity within (baptism) belong to that which is spiritually matriarchal. (John 3, verse 3-8).

Sekhmet statues carry most of their weight in symbolic memory of what was an ancient fertility culture dedicated to the direct experience of baptism. As the leg shaped hairlocks extend from maternal breasts to the womb of rebirth, the lioness's head proportions are such that they highlight the bust of a second animal figure. The Lioness's ears as eyes and eyes as nose (nostrils) brings to life the figure of a reptile. 'Neath the halo headress of the solar egg, the lioness's egg fertilization process being internal (Set) and the reptile's egg fertilization process being external (Setting), such are key components to the safety of entering the trans-egoic or "born again" state. The life threatening fear associated with the predatory nature of a lion and/or crocodile encounter are reflective of the intense ego death experiences associated with the transpersonal awakening process.

In spiritualy matriarchal times, illumination could be seen as wearing the false beard (ancient Egyptian funerary ego death mask) as the high state of cyclical self knowing; high cyclical awareness of both our upper matriarchal half and our lower (later) patriarchal half (compared with a mini lower body replica, an "as above so below" tail end beard extension); in full recognition of her civilizational Underworld; her inevitable cyclical destiny. The male pharaoh wears his beard tapered in reverse, indicating a pointing upwards towards the patriarchal head, divine representative of God's tail end cycle.

To carry the Ankh was perhaps to symbolically carry that upper and lower understanding. As the upper matriarchal womb symbolised the fertile birthing of civilization, below, the now Christian cross is carried to place emphasis on the lower (later) "End Times" Father principle of the great cycle.

Ganesha, the elephant headed Hindu diety, displays a cyclical head to trunk symbolism and points to the Mother head of his matriarchal elephant society.


In the name of the Father, the Son and the holy ghosted... ? ... inevitability.

[da_hitmanhart]

Who are these Greek humanoids shown in this video?

[gdenny]

Love the video, but why represent her when she’s in a human body as a light skinned woman?

[ayoobkhan]

What about libiations, offerings, incenses, colors