View The Egyptian Goddess Sekhmet Background. Sekhmet is the egyptian goddess of the sun, war, destruction, plagues and healing. She is associated with another feline and leonine goddess, bastet.

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Sekhmet, goddess of egypt discover the legends and myths and religious beliefs surrounding sekhmet, the egyptian sun goddess of war was depicted in human form with the head of a lioness and crowned by the solar disk and uraeus. She was a fierce goddess of war, the destroyer of the enemies of ra and osiris. She represents the scorching, burning, destructive heat of the sun.

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Lady of enchantments, beautiful one, powerful one. Her name is derived from the egyptian word sekhem which means power or might. 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. The egyptians built 700 monuments to worship her.