Cult of Gods

Sekhmet

Egyptian tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains
war, plague, healing
Symbols and attributes
Lioness
Parents (per the sources used)
Ra
Partner
Ptah
Papyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.
Papyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.

Key myth

The 'Powerful One'. In the Book of the Heavenly Cow, Ra sends her to destroy humankind and then tricks her into stopping with red-dyed beer. Her priests were also healers.

Primary sources

  • Book of the Heavenly Cow

All sources for the Egyptian pantheon

Lineage in the sources used: Ra.

Place in the family graph

Choose a deity to see where it comes from. Dashed lines are links the sources describe that are not parent and child.

NunAtumRaAmunShuTefnutMaatHathorSekhmetPtahGebNutAnubisThothSobekOsirisIsisSethNephthysHorus

More traditions

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.NorseA chaos monster and a sun god, drawn by L. Gruner for A. H. Layard's Monuments of Nineveh.MesopotamianVishvarupa Vishnu, Kashmir or Himachal, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection.HinduFolio 309r of the Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin), c. 800.Celtic (Irish)

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Sekhmet: war and fighting. This is overlap in one area only.

Norse

Odin

wisdom, poetry, war

Norse

Thor

thunder, protection of gods and people, strength

Norse

Freyja

love, desire, magic (seiðr)

Norse

Týr

law, oaths, war

Mesopotamian

Enlil

wind, command, the fates of cities

Mesopotamian

Nergal

plague, war, the underworld

Mesopotamian

Ninurta

war, farming, storms

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