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[ladyofhimring]

Mythology - My Favorites - Anubis (Anpu)

God of mummification and the afterlife as well as the patron god of lost souls and the helpless.

[goddess-ofrisingsun]

THE FOUR DAUGHTERS OF RA.

Raised to be warriors, they enforced the law of the sun god. Assigned to the four cardinal points, they made sure in the name of their father that his enemies were all razed to the ground. Ma'at, lady of the south and goddess of justice, truth and order. Hathor, Lady of the West, also goddess of love, joy and motherhood. Bastet the sun cat, lady of the east and goddess of protection, fertility and the secrets of women. And last but not least, Sekhmet the lioness, lady of the north and goddess of war, healing and fire. Together they were some of the most feared goddesses of ancient Egypt.

[goddess-ofrisingsun]

AESTHETIC || EGYPTIAN GODDESS SEKHMET

“Oh great roaring lioness, with fangs dripping with blood, roaring her furies to the world, the championess of Re.” | For my beautiful and deadly sister @l-ion-ess.

A ferocious lioness-goddess, counterpart and sister of the gentle cat-goddess Bastet and wife of Ptah at Memphis. In Egyptian mythology, Sekhmet /ˈsɛkˌmɛt/ or Sachmis was originally the warrior goddess as well as goddess of healing for Upper Egypt. She is depicted as a lioness, the fiercest hunter known to the Egyptians. It was said that her breath formed 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 millennia of existence. Sekhmet also is a Solar deity, sometimes called the daughter of the sun god Ra and often associated with 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 the goddess Ma'at in the Judgment Hall of Osiris, associating her with the Wedjat, and connecting her with Tefnut as well.