Attributes: A
sun goddess. She represents the scorching, burning, destructive
heat of the sun. She was a fierce goddess of war, the destroyer of
the enemies of Ra and
Osiris. Her temper was uncontrollable. In the legend of Ra and
Hathor, Sekhmet's anger became so
great, she would have destroyed all of mankind if Ra had not
taken pity on us. He tricked her by dyeing beer blood-red which
she drank believing it to be human blood and became drunk. She
soon forgot her anger and we were saved from destruction.
. . . . .Sekhmet was the wife of the
creator-god Ptah.
This marriage was unusual in that it resulted from geographical
proximity of their cults rather than a sharing of attributes.
Sekhmet
