Sekhmet with head of lioness and a sun disk and uraeus on her head
Name in hieroglyphs
Major cult center
Memphis, Leontopolis
Symbol
Sun disk, red linen, lioness
Parents
Ra (Or Self Created In Memphis)
Consort
Ptah
Offspring
Nefertem, Maahes, Imhotep (later accounts)
In Egyptian mythology, Sekhmet (/ˈsɛkˌmɛt/[1] or Sachmis/ˈsækmɪs/, from Ancient Egyptian: 𓌂𓐍𓏏𓁐, romanized: Saḫmat[2][3]; Coptic: Ⲥⲁⲭⲙⲓ, romanized: Sakhmi), is a warrior goddess as well as goddess of medicine.
Sekhmet is also a solar deity, sometimes given the epithet 'the eye of Ra'. She is often associated with the goddesses Hathor and Bastet.
three daughters Bastet, Sekhmet and Hathor, who were all considered the Eye of Ra, who would seek out his vengeance. Sekhmet was the Eye of Ra and was...
The Sekhmet statues, dating back to the New Kingdom of Egypt during the 18th dynasty and later dynasties, are statues of the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet. Sekhmet...
other deities such as Sekhmet. Eventually Bastet and Sekhmet were characterized as two aspects of the same goddess, with Sekhmet representing the powerful...
Creator god Ptah, as well as the feline goddess (Bast in Lower Egypt or Sekhmet in Upper Egypt) whose nature he shared. Maahes was a deity associated with...
known to the ancient Egyptians as "Aaru." A few, including Bast, Sobek, Sekhmet, Thoth, and Ptah choose to remain on Earth, integrating themselves into...
The Sekhmet Hypothesis was first published in book form in 1995 by Iain Spence. It suggested that pop trends of an atavistic nature could be analysed...
absorbed the warrior goddesses, Sekhmet and Bast, as some of her aspects. First, Mut became Mut-Wadjet-Bast, then Mut-Sekhmet-Bast (Wadjet having merged into...
craftsmen and architects. In the triad of Memphis, he is the husband of Sekhmet and the father of Nefertem. He was also regarded as the father of the sage...
an Upper Egyptian counterpart to the fearsome Lower Egyptian goddess Sekhmet. In art, Mut was pictured as a woman with the wings of a vulture, holding...
Wedjat, can be equated with several particular deities, including Hathor, Sekhmet, Bastet, Raet-Tawy, and Mut. The eye goddess acts as mother, sibling, consort...
severed hands like Anat, and drinking blood like the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet and that therefore that her character might have been influenced by them...
5381 Sekhmet is an Aten asteroid whose orbit is sometimes closer to the Sun than the Earth's. Carolyn Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory discovered it on...
virtue Shin (信, Trust). In OVA, Shin as Trust, or a Faith. His rival is Sekhmet, the Dark Warlord of Venom. He is the oldest member of the Warriors and...
royal coffins in the tomb. They were fashioned to resemble the goddess Sekhmet, the fierce lioness who was the protector of the kings, displaying her...
The Statue of Sekhmet /ˈsɛkˌmɛt/ currently housed in the Gallery of Ancient Egypt at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a life-sized sculpture of one of...
eventually seen as the son of the creator god Ptah, and the goddesses Sekhmet and Bast were sometimes called his mother. In art, Nefertem is usually...
comment made by Wilson in the book became the main seed thought for The Sekhmet Hypothesis. Wilson suggested that the gentle angel symbol from Ezekiel...
C23 U+13074 goddess with feline head and sun with uraeus Id. & Det. for Sekhmet (sḫmt), Menhit (mnḥyt), Mehit (mḥyt), Bastet (bꜣstt) 𓁵 C24 U+13075 god...
often relate to their roles or origins. The name of the predatory goddess Sekhmet means "powerful one", the name of the mysterious god Amun means "hidden...
again. The site is notable for the statues of the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet found there. The statues are made of diorite or "black granite" and initially...
Sammael—(Hebrew) "venom of God" Samnu—Central Asian devil Sedit—American Indian devil Sekhmet—Egyptian goddess of vengeance Set—Egyptian devil Shaitan—Arabic name for...
Kingdom, Sahure was equated with a form of the goddess Sekhmet for unknown reasons. The cult of "Sekhmet of Sahure" had priests and attracted visitors from...
media related to Serket. von Känel, Frédérique (1984). Les prêtres-ouâb de Sekhmet et les conjurateurs de Serket (in French). Presses Universitaires de France...
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