Talk:Sekhmet
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[edit] Did Sekhmet Create The Nosferatu
This myth has several different versions, the one presented here comes from "The Goddess Sekhmet, Psycho-Spiritual Exercises of the Fifth Way" by Robert Masters, published by LLewellyn Publishing copyright 1991. [1] Or was it The Fixed Star Algol -from the constellation- Beta Perseus. I find this interesting becaue the constellation 'Beta Perseus' means The Champion or The Rescuer. However, beta ,derivative of Phoenecian letter Beth, means house. With that said Sekhmet became bloodthirsty and murderous due to human's conspiring a coup against the Ra who -in context with my aforemention- was providing them with a house(community) and he was king(champion and rescuer) to his people. So for his people to revolt against him must have created quite a stir amongst the royal ranks. But where it gets strange is that -in ancient arab- Algol, or Al-Ghul, means "The Ghoul" or "Demon Star", and Ri'B al Ohill, the "Demon's Head".Also in hebrew algol referred to as Rosh ha Sitan "Satan's Head", or "the Devil's Head"; also as Lilith, Adam's legendary first wife, believed to have been in existence before the creation of Eve. She is believed to be the nocturnal vampire from the lower world. The Chinese gave it the gruesome title Tseih She, the "Piled-up Corpses". Astrologers say that it was the most unfortunate, violent, and dangerous star in the heavens. (Allen). Thus Sekhmet must have been working upon liliths behalf.[2] If you could not get the first redirect link you may have to restart the browser --Howmee 05:21, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hymn of Sekhmet?
The part of the text that is atrributed as a Hymn of Sekhmet, is actually a quote from Normanday Ellis's "Awakening Osiris", which is basically a non-literal, poetic translation of the Book of the Dead. I suspect this is not really one of Sekhmet's hymns. Does anyone else have any thoughts?
- I agree with you - this is not a Hymn to Sekhmet. It's a poetic interpretation from a section of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. At the top of the entry of the article it lists the source as "For the Ronin Warriors character, see Sekhmet (Ronin Warriors)". My response is Huh?! Also, I've never come across any reference of Nefertum as an aspect of Atum. Nefertum was the god of perfumes. If I only had a single great source about Sekhmet I'd like to wipe the whole entry clean.
[edit] Sources?
The page needs sources. The claim for putting anthrax on the statues is interesting but I did a Google and the only relevant results are this entry, mirrors and recent articles that seem to draw their information from this page [3] or others that don't provide a source (and may have been the source of this claim) [4] I'm not claiming its cobblers but I was checking the facts from that first link I gave and was struggling to find any support for it and this entry comes with no further resources to follow up on which is pretty important. (Emperor 15:55, 4 April 2006 (UTC))
