Sekhmet
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In Egyptian mythology, Sekhmet is a warrior goddess as well as goddess of medicine.
Wall relief of Sekhmet, Temple of Kom Ombo
This golden cultic object is called an aegis. It is devoted to Sekhmet, highlighting her solar attributes. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
Ra
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Ra or Re was the ancient Egyptian deity of the Sun. By the Fifth Dynasty, in the 25th and 24th centuries BC, Ra had become one of the most important gods in ancient Egyptian religion, identified prima
Sekhmet
…Ⲥⲁⲭⲙⲓ, romanized: Sakhmi) is a warrior goddess as well as goddess of medicine. Sekhmet is also a solar deity, sometimes given the epithet "the eye of Ra". She is often associated with the goddesses Hathor and Bastet. Sekhmet is the daughter of the sun god, Ra, and is among the more important of the…
Jewelry of Ra as a falcon with spread wings, adorned with the sun-disk and holding the ankh, the hieroglyphic symbol of life
Inlay depicting the squatting Ra with the sun-disk placed atop his falcon head
Ra in his ram-headed form traveling through the underworld in his solar barque on the subterrestrial Nile, from the copy of the Book of Gates in the tomb of Ramses I (KV16)
Ra and Imentet from the tomb of Nefertari, 13th century BC