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Post by Nubian Zuri* on Apr 24, 2009 21:11:32 GMT -5
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Post by Sandman on Apr 25, 2009 20:03:27 GMT -5
Qn. Sekhmet Dread Lioness of Africa. In parts of Africa where you find strong women with Ethiopian and Egyptian culture you find Sekhmet. Composited with various strong women.... Qn. Of Sheba, Qn. Judith Ethiopia, Qn Amina Zaire, Qn. "Kahina, black African jewish Qn. of the berbers Moremi, Qn. Idia, Qn. Nzinga, there are others can you name them? www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/queen-sekhmet-dread-lioness-of-africa-by-jide-uwechia/[/quoteGood evening my sister. I am feeling this topic. Never heard of that title Lionedd she probaly was a warrior thaxt was nice with her hands. I am thinking about joining I dig the info. |
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Post by nubaka on Apr 25, 2009 20:33:08 GMT -5
Qn. Sekhmet Dread Lioness of Africa. In parts of Africa where you find strong women with Ethiopian and Egyptian culture you find Sekhmet. Composited with various strong women.... Qn. Of Sheba, Qn. Judith Ethiopia, Qn Amina Zaire, Qn. "Kahina, black African jewish Qn. of the berbers Moremi, Qn. Idia, Qn. Nzinga, there are others can you name them? WOW great info sister and its also a legnd that the Great Sphinx of Giza may be her also. As Ra sent her to destroy the earth, she got acrried away, and RA had to stop her. So made the Nile red mixed w/ some sleeping potion, because she was so blood thirsty she thought it was bllod, and when she drank from it she fell asleep frozen in time, and some say thats waht the Great represenst, becase waters used to go up to its paws and people would worship there because it was a temple also. Greta drop, T.Y. www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/queen-sekhmet-dread-lioness-of-africa-by-jide-uwechia/ |
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Post by nubaka on Apr 25, 2009 20:35:28 GMT -5
Qn. Sekhmet Dread Lioness of Africa. In parts of Africa where you find strong women with Ethiopian and Egyptian culture you find Sekhmet. Composited with various strong women.... Qn. Of Sheba, Qn. Judith Ethiopia, Qn Amina Zaire, Qn. "Kahina, black African jewish Qn. of the berbers Moremi, Qn. Idia, Qn. Nzinga, there are others can you name them? www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/queen-sekhmet-dread-lioness-of-africa-by-jide-uwechia/[/quoteGood evening my sister. I am feeling this topic. Never heard of that title Lionedd she probaly was a warrior thaxt was nice with her hands. I am thinking about joining I dig the info. Whats up brother and it's also a legend that the Great Sphinx of Giza may be her also. As Ra sent her to destroy the earth, she got carried away, and RA had to stop her. So RA made the Nile red mixed w/ some sleeping potion, because she was so blood thirsty she thought it was blood, and when she drank from it she fell asleep frozen in time, and some say thats waht the Great represents, because waters used to go up to its paws and people would worship there because it was a temple also. Leaving gifts. peace. |
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Post by Nubian Zuri* on Jun 10, 2009 13:00:10 GMT -5
Sekhmet
Sekhmet with head of lioness and a solar disk and uraeus on her head
In Egyptian mythology , Sekhmet (also spelled Sachmet , Sakhet , Sekmet , Sakhmet and Sekhet ; and given the Greek name, Sacmis ), was originally the warrior goddess of Upper Egypt . She is depicted as a lioness , the fiercest hunter known to the Egyptians. It was said that her breath created the desert. She was seen as the protector of the pharaohs and led them in warfare.
Her cult was so dominant in the culture that when the first pharaoh of the twelfth dynasty , Amenemhat I , moved the capital of Egypt to Itjtawy , the centre for her cult was moved as well. Religion, the royal lineage, and the authority to govern were intrinsically interwoven in Ancient Egypt during its approximately three thousand years of existence. Sekhmet also is a solar deity , often considered an aspect of the Goddesses Hathor and Bast . She bears the solar disk , and the Uraeus which associates her with Wadjet and royalty. With these associations she can be construed as being a divine arbiter of Ma'at (Justice, or Order), The Eye of Horus and connecting her with Tefnut as well.
Upper Egypt is in the south and Lower Egypt is in the delta region in the north. As Lower Egypt had been conquered by Upper Egypt, Sekhmet was seen as the more powerful of the two warrior goddesses, the other, Bast, being the similar warrior goddess of Lower Egypt. 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. She also was seen as a special goddess for women, ruling over menstruation . Unable to be eliminated completely however, Bast became a lesser deity and even was marginalized as Bastet by the priests of Amun who added a second female ending to her name that may have implied a diminutive status, becoming seen as a domestic cat at times.
Sekhmet from the temple of Mut at Luxor , granite, 1403-1365 BC - National Museum, Copenhagen
Sekhmet became identified in some later cults as a daughter of the new sun god, Ra , when his cult merged with and supplanted the worship of Horus (the son of Osiris and Isis , who was one of the oldest of Egyptian deities and gave birth daily to the sun). At that time many roles of deities were changed in the Egyptian myths. Some were changed further when the Greeks established a royal line of rulers that lasted for three hundred years and some of their historians tried to create parallels between deities in the two pantheons .
Her name suits her function and means, the (one who is) powerful . She also was given titles such as the (One) Before Whom Evil Trembles , the Mistress of Dread , and the Lady of Slaughter .
Sekhmet was believed to protect the pharaoh in battle, stalking the land, and destroying the pharaoh's enemies with arrows of fire. An early Egyptian sun deity also, her body was said to take on the bright glare of the midday sun, gaining her the title Lady of Flame . It was said that death and destruction were balm for her warrior's heart and that the hot desert winds were believed to be her breath. [ 1 ]
Image from a ritual Menat necklace, depicting a ritual being performed before a statue of Sekhmet on her throne, she also is flanked by the goddess Wadjet as the cobra and the goddess Nekhbet as the white vulture , symbols of lower and upper Egypt respectively who always were depicted on the crown of Egypt and referred to as the two ladies , and the supplicant holds a complete menat and a sistrum for the ritual, circa 870 B.C. ( Berlin , Altes Museum, catalogue number 23733)
In order to placate Sekhmet's wrath, her priestesses performed a ritual before a different statue of the goddess on each day of the year. This practice resulted in many images of the goddess being preserved. It is estimated that more than seven hundred statues of Sekhmet once stood in one funerary temple alone, that of Amenhotep III , on the west bank of the Nile . It was said that her statues were protected from theft or vandalism by coating them with anthrax .
Sekhmet also was seen as a bringer of disease as well as the provider of cures to such ills. The name "Sekhmet" literally became synonymous with physicians and surgeons during the Middle Kingdom . In antiquity, many members of Sekhmet's priesthood often were considered to be on the same level as physicians.
She was envisioned as a fierce lioness, and in art, was depicted as such, or as a woman with the head of a lioness, who was dressed in red, the colour of blood. Sometimes the dress she wears exhibits a rosetta pattern over each nipple, an ancient leonine motif, which can be traced to observation of the shoulder-knot hairs on lions. Tame lions were kept in temples dedicated to Sekhmet at Leontopolis .
The warrior goddess Sekhmet, shown with her sun disk and cobra crown
To pacify Sekhmet, festivals were celebrated at the end of battle, so that the destruction would come to an end. During an annual festival held at the beginning of the year, a festival of intoxication, the Egyptians danced and played music to soothe the wildness of the goddess and drank great quantities of beer ritually to imitate the extreme drunkenness that stopped the wrath of the goddess
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