Robert Masters. 4th January 1927 to 27th July 2009. That research led him into encounter with Goddess Sekhmet and with the Ancient Egyptian understanding of these matters. Linked to the Sekhmet and Ptah Forum was another of Robert’s projects, The Sekhmet Project.

Did Sekhmet Create The Nosferatu[edit]

This myth has severaldsrctfgvbdifferent versions, the one presented here comes from 'The Goddess Sekhmet, Psycho-Spiritual Exercises of the Fifth Way' byRobert Masters, published by LLewellyn Publishing copyright 1991.[1]Or was it The Fixed Star Algol -from the constellation- Beta Perseus. I find this interesting becaue the constellation 'Beta Perseus' means The Champion or The Rescuer. However, beta ,derivative of Phoenecian letter Beth, means house.With that said Sekhmet became bloodthirsty and murderous due to human's conspiring a coup against the Ra who -in context with my aforemention- was providing them with a house(community) and he was king(champion and rescuer) to his people. So for his people to revolt against him must have created quite a stir amongst the royal ranks. But where it gets strange is that -in ancient arab- Algol, or Al-Ghul, means 'The Ghoul' or 'Demon Star', and Ri'B al Ohill, the 'Demon's Head'.Also in hebrew algol referred to as Rosh ha Sitan 'Satan's Head', or 'the Devil's Head'; also as Lilith, Adam's legendary first wife, believed to have been in existence before the creation of Eve. She is believed to be the nocturnal vampire from the lower world. The Chinese gave it the gruesome title Tseih She, the 'Piled-up Corpses'. Astrologers say that it was the most unfortunate, violent, and dangerous star in the heavens. (Allen).Thus Sekhmet must have been working upon liliths behalf.[2]If you could not get the first redirect link you may have to restart the browser --Howmee 05:21, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

I think Lilith and Sekhmet should stay as far away from eachother as possible. Mixing myths is not something that should be in the article. Lilith stems from Mesopotamia as Lilitu and later Jewish lore. Sekhmet is Egyptian. Obvious parrells can be drawn from Mesopotamia and Egypt to Judaism, but Lilith or something like her does not show up in Egyptian myth to my knowledge. Furthermore, opinions drawn from multiple sources violates wiki and imo this hasn't much to do with Sekhmet herself. Xuchilbara 18:36, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

There is no ancient Egyptian myth that ties Sekhmet to vampiric or 'ghoul' legends. That is New Age malarkey at best. The myth, The Destruction of Mankind, is about Hathor being commissioned by Ra to destroy mankind when they no longer cared for him. She embarks upon a full-scale slaughter of men, which alarms Ra, who tells her to stop. She refuses, saying 'I have prevailed over men, and it has done my heart good. I shall continue to prevail over them.' It was at this point Hathor then mutates into Sekhmet, whose name means, 'She who prevails.' To stop her, the gods devise a scheme to tinge beer with red ochre so she will think it blood of slaughtered men and drink it (this some from the observation in the wild that lions and lionesses often have bloody maws when feeding). When she sees the red beer poured out 12 hands deep upon a field, she drinks it, becomes drunk and falls asleep, thus stopping the slaughter of mankind. She later awakes, still drunk, as Hathor and returns to the halls of the gods, where she is welcomed in as 'sweet and gentle Hathor.' Kgriffisgreenberg (talk) 18:00, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Hymn of Sekhmet?[edit]

The part of the text that is atrributed as a Hymn of Sekhmet, is actually a quote from Normanday Ellis's 'Awakening Osiris', which is basically a non-literal, poetic translation of the Book of the Dead. I suspect this is not really one of Sekhmet's hymns. Does anyone else have any thoughts?

• I agree with you - this is not a Hymn to Sekhmet. It's a poetic interpretation from a section of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. At the top of the entry of the article it lists the source as 'For the Ronin Warriors character, see Sekhmet (Ronin Warriors)'. My response is Huh?! Also, I've never come across any reference of Nefertum as an aspect of Atum. Nefertum was the god of perfumes. If I only had a single great source about Sekhmet I'd like to wipe the whole entry clean.

Sources?[edit]

The page needs sources. The claim for putting anthrax on the statues is interesting but I did a Google and the only relevant results are this entry, mirrors and recent articles that seem to draw their information from this page [3] or others that don't provide a source (and may have been the source of this claim) [4] I'm not claiming its cobblers but I was checking the facts from that first link I gave and was struggling to find any support for it and this entry comes with no further resources to follow up on which is pretty important. (Emperor 15:55, 4 April 2006 (UTC))eli + kylie

No really, sources[edit]

Since she does drink blood and has something to do with drunkenness, a specific reference for the title Scarlet Woman or Lady would certainly interest me. And technically I think we want more specific citations for everything. Dan (talk) 20:43, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I don't think Scarlet Woman appears as a title in Revelation unless you count section headings. So that matters less than it might. But the point stands. Dan (talk) 03:48, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

-I'm concerned about the section that reads:'Consequently, it was Sekhmet who was seen as the Avenger of Wrongs, and the Scarlet Lady,[1] a reference to blood, as the one with bloodlust.' The PDF document with the citation in question doesn't strike me as being reputable since it is primarily concerned with the poetry of Sylvia Plath. Further more, the portion of the document that mentions these titles contains information that doesn't seem to be related to the subject at hand. In other words, the cited information came from information regarding Sylvia Plath and not from a historical document or other reputable academic document pertaining to Sekhmet, Egyptian Mythology or even Egyptology.

I would like to see this either removed or replaced by another reputable academic source. Also, I checked the PDF document again and found no mention of the term 'Avenger of Wrongs'. Where did this title come from?-HLG —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.91.209.250 (talk) 19:44, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism by 207.81.108.28[edit]

I undid the vandalism to this article, which was done by 207.81.108.28 this morning.Lily20 (talk) 18:19, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Destroyed or ate?[edit]

'In a later myth developed around an annual drunken Sekhmet festival, Ra, by then the sun god of Upper Egypt, created her from a fiery eye gained from his mother, Hathor, to destroy mortals who conspired against him (Lower Egypt). In the myth, Sekhmet's blood-lust was not quelled at the end of battle and led to her destroying almost all of humanity, so Ra had tricked her by turning the Nile as red as blood (the Nile turns red every year when filled with silt during inundation) so that Sekhmet would drink it. The trick was, however, that the red liquid was not blood, but beer mixed with pomegranate juice so that it resembled blood, making her so drunk that she gave up slaughter and became an aspect of the gentle Hathor.'

-From the Article

Here is the thing. I read somewhere else (and could email that author for her sources given a little time to do so) that Sekhmet was eating rather than killing them (on the outside of her immortal body, that is; I assume they would die in her stomach). Here are some related points. 1. She was of superhuman height and related size dimensions, and was the most powerful of all the gods. 2. In addition to her enemies (probably all of them), she ate countless others and even some of her friends. 3. Point 2 did not matter much since her enemies and her friends felt the same in her stomach. 4. By the end of her initial reign of terror, she had eaten most of humanity. So, should we replace 'destroying' with 'eating' in this context? The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 19:00, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

To say specifically that she was eating them, we would need a specific reliable source. But the point of the myth is that Sekhmet attacked humanity as an instrument of Ra's vengeance. How she killed her victims isn't that important, so I don't see any pressing need to include it. A. Parrot (talk) 21:53, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Like I said, I could find such sources with time. Are you saying it isn't worth sending those emails to find out where to search for them? The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 03:16, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Well, if you want to; I just don't see it as particularly important. I suppose the one thing it does is establish that she was already drinking blood, thereby making it clearer why she drank the beer made to look like blood. A. Parrot (talk) 05:46, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

In any case, A. Parrot, I wrote a comment on the website that told me Sekhmet ate those people. Hopefully, the author of that site will email me some of her sources, and those will be the reliable sources for which we have been looking. The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 17:38, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

WINE/BLOOD/BEER[edit]

Pages i've seen elsewhere state she got drunk off of beer coloured with pomegranate juice - this page says wine, but is not sourced. Should we at least mention the variations?

I've also seen it stated that pomegranate dyed beer was drunk as part of festivities for sakhmet, so...? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.221.73.75 (talk) 17:49, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

The only version of this story that I have a detailed source for is in The Book of the Heavenly Cow, where it says it was beer dyed with ochre. I'll write that, though I'll have to remove some unsourced stuff in the paragraph. A. Parrot (talk) 20:30, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

I've done that. Here I'm copying the original version of the paragraph. While some of what I removed is probably modern conflation of myths, other parts are probably sourceable. So I'm leaving them here so they can be worked on later.

In a later myth developed around an annual drunken Sekhmet festival, Ra, the sun god, created her from a fiery eye gained from his mother, Hathor (daughter of Ra), to destroy mortals who conspired against him (Lower Egypt). In the myth, Sekhmet's blood-lust was not quelled at the end of battle and led to her destroying almost all of humanity, so Ra had tricked her by turning the Nile as red as blood (the Nile turns red every year when filled with silt during inundation) so that Sekhmet would drink it. The trick was, however, that the red liquid was not blood, but wine so that it resembled blood, making her so drunk that she gave up slaughter and became an aspect of the gentle Hathor to some moderns. It is said that when Sekhment awoke from her drunken sleep, the first thing she laid eyes on was the creator god, Ptah and fell in love with him, and the result was Mahees [sic] and Nefertem.

A. Parrot (talk) 20:42, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Assessment comment[edit]

Robert Masters And Jean Houston

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Sekhmet/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

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In popular culture[edit]

• Death metal band Nile referenced Sekhmet in the title track of their album 'Ithyphallic', and in 'The Eye Of Ra' on their album Those Whom the Gods Detest.
• Death metal band Behemoth referenced Sekhmet in the song 'Christgrinding Avenue' on their album The Apostasy.
• Sekhmet is one of the evil female trinity of demigod vampires in author Kevin Given's 'Last Rites: The Return of Sebastian Vasilis' which is the first novel in the 'Karl Vincent: Vampire Hunter' series the other two being the Hebrew Lilith and the Hindu Kali. She is also seen in the same author's comic book 'Karl Vincent: Vampire Hunter' issues 1-6 which adapts the novel. She will be played by actress Jasmine Yampierre in the film version from Crisp Film Works.
• Sekhmet is used in The 39 Clues book Beyond the Grave and is the reason why the characters travel to Cairo.
• Sekhmet is also featured in The Red Pyramid written by Rick Riordan as a minor antagonist.
• Sekhmet is the subject of 'Lionheart' a song about the goddess by the symphonic power metal band, Amberian Dawn from their The Clouds of Northland Thunder album.
• Sekhmet is the focus of 'Resurrection', an episode of Stargate SG-1. The plot centers around a young girl named Anna who was created by a German doctor, who is the son of a Nazi. Sam, Daniel and Teal'c find artifacts belonging to the Goa'uld Sekhmet in the doctor's compound and realize that Anna was cloned using genetic material from the original Sekhmet, who was the executioner of Ra, the villain from the original film. A (possibly different) Sekhmet is also featured in the Stargate SG-1 game Stargate SG-1 Unleashed.
• In Tutenstein, an animated TV series about ancient Egypt, Sekhmet is featured in one of the episodes. She goes on a rampage in the museum and the building site to make people build a pyramid for Tut.
• The space vessel 'Sekhmet' is a level in the video game Jet Force Gemini, a third person shooter developed by Rare in 1999.
• Sekhmet is also the name of an alien Aragami in the PlayStation Portable game, God Eater.
• In the video game Skullgirls, Sekhmet is the name of the bloodthirsty cat-like skeleton parasite bonded to the Egypt themed character Eliza.
• In the BBC TV series Sherlock episode 'The Great Game', John Watson believes a cat named Sekhmet is responsible for the death of her owner.
• Sekhmet is the main character in Author S.K. Whiteside's World of the Guardians book series. Set in modern-day New Orleans, Sekhmet goes by the name of Syn.
• Sekhmet appears in the Big FinishDoctor Whoaudio drama, The Bride of Peladon. She is an Osiran.
• Temple of Goddess Spirituality in Southern Nevada that is dedicated to the Goddess Sekhmet.
• The subject of Margaret Atwood's poem titled 'Sekhmet, the Lion-headed Goddess of War.'
• In the comic The Wicked + The Divine, Sekhmet (spelled Sakhmet) is one of twelve gods who reincarnate every 90 years only to die within two years. In the current incarnation, she is a popstar modelled on Rihanna.
• In Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody series of books, Sekhmet is the name of one of the Emersons' cats.
• Sekhmet appears in the comic Beasts of Burden: The Unfamiliar after being summoned by a gathering of witches and familiars.
• Sekhmet appears in the 1997 cartoon series Mummies Alive! in 'The Curse of Sekhmet' (Episode 11). After Scarab fell sick, he summoned Sekhmet to cure him. Instead, she unleashes havoc with the Plagues of Egypt and places a curse on the city, causing Presley to turn into a frog. Unlike in her classic depiction as a lion-headed female, she appears a regular human and can turn into an anthropomorphic vulture instead.
• Sekhmet is one of the creatures in the mobile game 'Deck Heroes', where she is portrayed as a man with long hair.
• Sekhmet is one of three old-world goddesses providing guidance to the titular heroine in the young-adult novella Fearless Inanna, by author & illustrator Jonathan Schork (2nd edition, SM-ARC, inc., 2016).^[1]
• Sekhmet is an ancient, evil vampire featured in the M/M paranormal romance book A Light in the Darkness: Things That Go Bump. She is the goddess of death and destruction infamous for her ability to create plague and cruelty.
• Sekhmet appears in the real-time strategy game Age of Mythology as a minor god for the Egyptians, and can be worshipped to increase the power of players' siege units.
• Miss Sekhmet is a werelioness in the Custard Protocol books by Gail Carriger.

References

1. ^Fearless Inanna, by Jonathan Schork (2nd edition, SM-ARC, inc., 2016)

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