Download The Egyptian Goddess Sekhmet Pictures. Like many other egyptian goddesses, sekhmet had two contradictory aspects to her complex personality. Today we take a look at some more egyptian mythology and a fierce goddess who was associated with war but also healing and medicine.
She is associated with another feline and leonine goddess, bastet.
The ancient egyptian priests were required to perform a ritual before a different one of these statues each morning and each afternoon. Sekhmet is an egyptian goddess with a woman's body and a lioness head and depicted frequently with the sun disc on her head. 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.
