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Sekhmet from the temple of Mut at Luxor Sekhmet, daughter of Ra. Sekhmet the Empowerer. Primordial goddess, as Robert Masters put it. The Goddess Sekhmet - Robert Masters. DOWNLOAD HERE. Robert Masters presents the wisdom of ancient Egypt through the. Title: The Goddess Sekhmet Robert Masters, Author: Olivia Paddock, Name: The Goddess Sekhmet Robert Masters, Length: 5 pages. 2005 - PDF DOWNLOAD!
Sekhmet from the temple of Mut at Luxor Sekhmet, daughter of Ra, the sun god, is a goddess that, next to Hekate, has my utmost admiration, reverence and devotion. Her name is related to such words as strong, mighty and violent, and thus to the creative and destructive power of the Sun. The ancient Egyptian word “sekhem” meant power. She is a goddess included in the so-called Triad of Memphis, which included her consort the God Ptah (the Creator of the World) and the God Nefer-Tem (the Healer and Physician), their son.
In Memphis, a Mystery School called the House of Life was devoted to worshiping the Triad. Sekhmet is a very ancient, primordial goddess, as Robert Masters put it: “She came into Egypt from a place unknown and at a time unrecorded. Some of Her Names refer to this very great antiquity—Lady of the Place of the Beginning of Time, and One Who Was Before the Gods Were. As a form of the Great Mother, Sekhmet is also known as Mother of All the Gods.“ The most well-known myth associated with her is the Myth of the Destruction of Mankind. In that story, humans rebelled against the gods, who decided to punish them severely.
Sekhmet proved the most vengeful: she could not stop slaughtering humans and, allegedly, got intoxicated by drinking their blood. To me, this myth shows that the mighty power of Sekmet is indeed boundless and bloodcurdling. Business Process Procedure Template Sapporo.
That a female deity would get into a killing frenzy was utterly unthinkable to subsequent consensus myth interpreters, who popularized that one myth as a warning against the feminine power they were afraid of. Like Ishtar, she was also the goddess of war: fire, pestilence, plague and drought were her ways of destroying her enemies.