![]() “There is a Tradition which says that there once existed an elaborate system of sexual mysticism and magic originating with Sekhmet and which later was lost, perhaps taken away by Her. Robert Masters asserts that ancient Egyptians knew about the mystery of Kundalini and Chakras: Sekhmet was a conduit of the psychic energy of Shakti: it was this boundless cosmic energy that gave her all her power. One of her chief epithets was the Great One of Healing as mentioned above, her son by Ptah was Nefer-Tem, the god of healing. Primarily, she was the goddess of the Kundalini energy symbolized by the Uraeus (the royal cobra) which she bears on her head together with the solar disk. Sekhmet’s power is derived both from light and darkness. The participants called Sekhmet Brilliant, Beatiful and Adorable to win her favours. In the city of Denderah, a popular festival was held in her honour, the aim of which was to pacify her wrath by indulging into the ecstasies of love, trance dancing and playing. Her beloved roaming place was the desert, where she often walked in solitude in full body of a lioness. Like Ishtar, she was also the goddess of war: fire, pestilence, plague and drought were her ways of destroying her enemies. That a female deity would get into a killing frenzy was utterly unthinkable to subsequent consensus myth interpreters, who popularized that one myth as a warning against the feminine power they were afraid of. To me, this myth shows that the mighty power of Sekmet is indeed boundless and bloodcurdling. Sekhmet proved the most vengeful: she could not stop slaughtering humans and, allegedly, got intoxicated by drinking their blood. In that story, humans rebelled against the gods, who decided to punish them severely. The most well-known myth associated with her is the Myth of the Destruction of Mankind. As a form of the Great Mother, Sekhmet is also known as Mother of All the Gods.“ Some of Her Names refer to this very great antiquity-Lady of the Place of the Beginning of Time, and One Who Was Before the Gods Were. “She came into Egypt from a place unknown and at a time unrecorded. Sekhmet is a very ancient, primordial goddess, as Robert Masters put it: In Memphis, a Mystery School called the House of Life was devoted to worshiping the Triad. She is a goddess included in the so-called Triad of Memphis, which included her consort the God Ptah (the Creator of the World) and the God Nefer-Tem (the Healer and Physician), their son. The ancient Egyptian word “sekhem” meant power. Her name is related to such words as strong, mighty and violent, and thus to the creative and destructive power of the Sun. Sekhmet, daughter of Ra, the sun god, is a goddess that, next to Hekate, has my utmost admiration, reverence and devotion. ![]()
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