The Goddess Sekhmet

Sekhmet is the Goddess of the sunset, destruction, death, and wisdom. The cycle of life and death was created when the Goddess Sekhmet-Bast divided into two sisters, Sekhmet and Bast. Together the sisters form the "Yin Yang"  deities of ancient Egypt.  Bast the protector of positive energy and Sekhmet of the negative.  Sekhmet was known as the protector of the righteous, vengeance and swift justice. In one account, she is created by the sun god Ra, to destroy man for his sins but Ra had a change of heart and changed Sekhmet to her less destructive form Het-heru. In this form she is a goddess of love. Today she is revered by worshipers in the field of the healing arts. Sekhmet is normally depicted as a dark skinned woman with the head of a lioness.  She can be distinguished from her sister,  Bast,  by her rounded ears,  Bast's ears are pointed like the domestic cats. Sekhmet's feast is celebrated On October 31 the same as her sister's, Bast, and her holy city is Memphis located in southern Egypt. During her feast day worshiper drank red beer in her honor. Red is Sekhmet's scared color.

I have only recently become aware of Sekhmet's sisterhood with Bast. She has become special to me, because of my love of cats applies to the large cats too.  She is also important as the protector of negative energy. Some feel negative energy is evil but that's not true. It is needed to keep life in balance or things will become unbalance and chaos sets in. All that is organic has both charges, all life is good and serves a purpose. The only evil that I know of is works of mankind.

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