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The below list of the Names of Sekhmet is an adaptation by Dr. Robert Elemental worlds of creation

Masters in his landmark book, "The Goddess Sekhmet", Llewlyn Publishing. theology-and-philosophy-of-ra

Some of the following Names taken from Sigrid-Eike Hoenes' book creation

"Unterscuhungen zu Wesen und Kult der Gottin Sachmet" (1976 Ruldolf Habelt Anunian Theology

Verlag, Bonn Germany) and some taken from his personal research with other Spirituality of the creation

Egyptologists. In our research, my colleague and myself have found that this Historical creation views
list below is somewhat incomplete. We have found that there are possibly Understanding Egyptian
well over 200 Names of Sekhmet. Religious philisophy

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Please also note that the word 'Netjer(t) is used in place of the word God/ess, Maat
from Dr. Master's book. Tehuti or Thoth

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Most Beautiful

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The One Who Holds Back Darkness

The Beautiful Light

Warrior Netjert (Goddess)

Netjert (Goddess) of Love

Great One In Heaven

Great Serpent On The Head Of Her Father

Great One Of The Incense Of The Ennead

Great Lady of The House of Life

Queen Of The Venerable Ones

Lady Of The House Of Books

Devouring One

Sekhmet Of The Knives

Burner Of Evildoers

The One Before Whom Evil Trembles

Terrible One

Lady Of All Powers

Eternal As Her Father

Lady Of The Manifold Adornments

Most Beautiful Among The Netjeru

Bountiful One

Sekhmet Who Gives Joys

Unwavering, Loyal One

Beloved Teacher

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The Litany of Sekhmet

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1. O Sekhmet, Eye of Ra, Great of Flame, Lady of protection who surrounds

her creator!
Come toward the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, the Master of the Double
Land, the Son of Ra, the Lord of crowns, the Living Image! Protect him and
preserve him from every arrow and every impurity of this year, because it is

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Ra from whom you are descended.

2. O Sekhmet, You who illumine the Double Land with your flame and give
the faculty of sight to all! Come toward the Living Image, the Living Falcon!
Free him, preserve him from all the evil contagions of this year, so that they
never hold ascendancy over him.

3. O Sekhmet, Lady of Flame, Great of Flame, Great of Terror, in fear of

whom the Double Land trembles! Come toward the Living Image, the Living
Falcon! Make him pass far from every fever, from every pestilence of the
year, for you are his Sole Protectress!

4. O Sekhmet, with red heart toward him from whom she issues forth, when
he brought her back after imploring her! Come to the Living Image! Protect
him, save him, deliver him; protect him from the massacre of slaughtering
spirits so that he will not die because of them.

5. O Sekhmet, Uraeus on the head of her master, who hides (i.e., protects)
him with her flame! Come towards the Living Image! Liberate him, put your
protection around him! Protect him from every arrow and from every
pestilence of the year! Preserve him from the one who plots against him, for
it is he who in his name of Ra is eternally in the sky.

6. O Sekhmet, the one who makes every eye to see, without blindness
happening! Come to the Living Image, the Living Falcon! For it is Ra from
whom you issue forth, it is he who is the Protected One of this year so that he
will go away from
. . . So that he will be preserved from every arrow, from every contagion,
from every bitterness, and from every fever, because he is Heru the
Offspring.

7. O Sekhmet, when you rise, the Light appears; when you go back, darkness
comes!
Grant that the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, the Master of the Double
Land, the Son of Ra, the Lord of crowns, does not die from your arrow, and
grant that your fever does not catch him, for he is the god from whom you
come forth. He is Heru, the Offspring.

8. O Sekhmet, who clothes her master in her light, and who conceals him
inside her pupil! Come to the Living Image, the Living Falcon! Protect him
from every evil fly of this year, so that it does not cling to him, . . . .

9. O Sekhmet, Ardent Flame, who lights a fire, when she took the torch!
Come to the Living Image, the Living Falcon! Preserve him from every evil . .
. Because he is Ra who cannot go toward your slaughtering spirits!

10. O Sekhmet, whose flame is well-respected among mankind! Who causes

her flame to rise. Preserve the Living Image, the Living Falcon! Protect him
and deliver him from the pestilence of the year which reigns in the land, for
he is the Unique One who is indestructible . . . .

11. O Sekhmet, for whom the two skies open at once after she shows herself
in splendor! Preserve the Living Image, the Living Falcon! Free him, protect
him as well as his people, his mate, and his children from every terror, from
every evil arrow of this year, and from all difficulties, . . .

12. O Sekhmet, Lady of Slaughter the way you like, the one who turns her
face toward the south, the north, the west, and the east, in such a way that
mankind is in fear! Come toward the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Master
of the Double Land, Son of Ra, the Lord of crowns, the Living Image, the
Living Falcon! Protect him . . .

13. O Sekhmet, who enters in the opening of the mountains, she from which
the flame fills for him (i.e., Ra) the Double Land, who inspires fear in the
gods! She from which the flame fills for him the Double Land; (and which) she
places among the gods. Come toward the Living Image, the Living Falcon!
Preserve him, deliver him, make him to pass well away (from harm), (for) he
is the Protected One of your arm of this year.

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14. O Sekhmet, who fashions her Lord on herself, whose place is preeminent
in front of him! Do not send your messengers against the Living Image! . . . In
order that he cannot go in front of any of your evil arrows.

15. O Sekhmet, the one who spreads out your terror upon everything, the one
who has been asked for life by those who rest in your hand! Preserve the
Living Image, the Living Falcon, from your Slaughtering Spirits, because it is
he who is the only recourse of his people, (the only recourse) of his mates and
of his children . . . .

16. O Sekhmet, Eater of blood, the one who does not push away the arm’s
grip, the one who establishes her domination in the house of the gods! Come
toward the Living Image, the Living Falcon! Deliver him from the impurity
which you have spread out in this year, so that he does not go toward this
impurity, because he is the one to whom the two Eyes have been sent, . . .

17. O Sekhmet, more divine than the gods, more glorious than the Ennead,
Lady of Light, whose place is preeminent on the head of her Lord! Come
toward the Living Image, the Living Falcon! Make him pass away from all
contagion, from every evil arrow, every pernicious fever, so that they do
not penetrate into him, for he is Atum, the night, who cannot die for all
eternity.

18. O Sekhmet, Lady of Flame, the one who is in her moment (of rage),
who grasps hearts for herself! Preserve the Living Image, the Living
Falcon; deliver him from every disastrous death of this year, . . .

19. O Sekhmet, the one who presides as the Power for capturing the
Wanderers, Lady of Life of the Double Land, who can be the cause of death!
Make to pass far from all evil the Living Image, the Living Falcon! (Repeat)
Protect him, for it is he who has the name spty.f(y) , the one who must exist
on earth.

20. O Sekhmet the Great, Lady of the Uraeus, the one whom we fear around
the shrine! Come toward the Living Image, the Living Falcon! Protect him,
place your protection around him, for he is Horus the Offspring. May he live,
may he live eternally, for ever and ever!

21. O Sekhmet, the one who opens the mountains, the one for whom the
desert animals have been killed on account of the fear which she inspires!
Come to the Living Image, the Living Falcon! Save him; do not permit that
your massacre is exercised on him; do not strike him, for he is the one who is
protected by his eye.

22. O Sekhmet, the sight of whom reduces all things to ashes, while humans
throw themselves down upon their faces (lit., on their forehead)! Come
toward the Son of Ra, the Lord of crowns, the Living Image, the Living Falcon!
Save him, protect him from this your terror, for he is the One protected
(sheltered) from your arm.

23. O Sekhmet, woman who plays the role of the male, and whom every god
fears! Come toward the Living Image, the Living Falcon! For he is possessor of
your protection, and if you live, he lives; if you are in good health, he is in
good health, (and) he will not be destroyed, no, not ever!

24. O Sekhmet, the one who is at the head of all things, thanks to whom what
every eye sees can be contemplated! Come toward the Living Image, the
Living Falcon! Make him to pass well away from harm, for he is Ra, he is the
Venerable Falcon, and his name is the name of Ra, each day.

25. O Sekhmet, the one who shines, on account of whom one jubilates when it
is ordered that her flame advances! When you shine, one jubilates because of
you; (when) you are kind, the flame is pacified. Come towards the Living
Image, the Living Falcon! Push away your messengers; do not permit them to
be sent against him, so that they cannot have power against him.

26. O Sekhmet, at whose setting the darkness appears, in such a way that if

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someone nods his head (lit., makes a nod of the head) to his neighbor, they
will not see one another! Come toward the Living Image, the Living Falcon!
Control every contagion, every arrow, . . . (and) all malicious things
. . . so that they cannot be sent against him, not ever.

27. O Sekhmet, Lady of Flame, Great One who causes (all) to tremble,
the power of any other god turns out to be non-existent when he is handed
over to her. Come toward the Son of Ra, the Living Image, the Living Falcon!
Protect him and save him . . . . (from harmful things) issuing from you, (in
order that) he does not die because of them.

28. O Sekhmet,Lady of Maat, the one who hates the thief, the one who
devours him to satiation, in accordance with your desire! Come toward the
Living Image, the Living Falcon! Save him, make him to pass far away from
the illness wnm-ct (gnaw-limbs) of this year, for he is the ultimate protected
body.

29. O Sekhmet, for whom heads are severed by her messengers, the one who
is at the head of her wandering spirits. Come toward the Living Image, the
Living Falcon! Keep away from him all . . . . . . For he is the one whom one
does not attack, . . .

30. O Sekhmet, the one who fills the ways with blood (and) who slays to the
limit of all she sees! Come toward the Living Image, the Living Falcon!
Protect him, (and) save him from every contagion (and) from every arrow of
this year [hurled against his faculty of sight].

31. O Sekhmet, the one who opens and one lives; the one who seals, (and)
one dies; Lady of Life who awards according to her desire! Come toward the
Son of Ra, the Living Image, the Living Falcon! Grant him to live, (for)
he is the one who survives every evil arrow of this year, of this month,
of this instant.

Invocation against the Seven Arrows of

the Year
32. O Sekhmet, the one who presides over the country, Lady of Vegetation,
Generous One, Sekhmet who protects the Double Land! Come toward the King
of Upper and Lower Egypt, the Lord of the Double Land, the Son of Ra,
Lord of crowns, [name], the Living Image, the Living Falcon! Save him,
protect him, (and) preserve him from the First Arrow of the year!

33. O Sekhmet, the Curled One, Lady of Obscurity, Wadjet the Great! Come
toward the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, the Lord of the Double Land,
the Son of Ra, Lord of crowns, [name], the Living Image, the Living Falcon!
Save him, protect him, (and) preserve him from the Second Arrow of the year!

34. O Sekhmet, the one who moves in light, the one who terrifies the gods
by her massacre! Come toward the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, the Lord
of the Double Land, the Son of Ra, Lord of crowns, [name], the Living
Image, the Living Falcon! Save him, protect him, (and) preserve him from the
Third Arrow of the year!

35. O Sekhmet, the one who guides mankind, Lady of the (Two) Shores,
(and Lady) of humanity! Come toward the King of Upper and Lower Egypt,
the Lord of the Double Land, the Son of Ra, Lord of crowns, [name],
the Living Image, the Living Falcon! Save him, protect him,(and) preserve
him from the Fourth Arrow of the year!

36. O Sekhmet, Luminous One, the Great, preeminent in the Mansion of

Fire, who terrorizes the Double Land by her fear! Come toward the King of
Upper and Lower Egypt, the Lord of the Double Land, the Son of Ra, Lord of
crowns, [name], the Living Image, the Living Falcon! Save him, protect him,
(and) preserve him from the Fifth Arrow of the year!

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37. O Sekhmet, the one who loves Maat and who detests Evil, Lady of
rekhyt. Come toward the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, the Lord of the
Double Land, the Son of Ra, Lord of crowns, [name], the Living Image, the
Living Falcon! Save him, protect him, (and) preserve him from the Sixth Arrow
of the year!

38. O Sekhmet, Uraeus who opens the acacia*, Sovereign (One), the Great!
Come toward the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, the Lord of the Double
Land, the Son of Ra, the Lord of crowns, [name], the Living Image, the Living
Falcon! Save him, protect him, (and) preserve him from the Seventh Arrow of
the year!

* Possibly in the sense of "who causes the acacia to bloom" as the wamth
of the sun brings forth the blossoms on a tree.

(Translated and adapted into English by Richard Reidy from the French
text "Sekhmet Et La Protection Du Monde" by Phillippe Germond)

Lioness Of The Sun

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Sekhmet, Lioness of the Sun

Sekhmet is the most well-known of the lioness deities. Her name, , sxmt "The
Powerful One," has it its origin's in the distant past before man appeared,
referring to the manifestations of power diffused throughout the universe as
defined at the first time. This power is a complimentary and necessary duality
- the creation and development of life as well as life’s destruction and death.

Although traditionally depicted as a goddess of war and destruction, Sekhmet,

solar deity par excellence, as "Lady of Ma’at," symbolizes the visible
manifestation of the original cosmic order. In this aspect she deploys all her
war-like resources to maintain the universal harmony defined at the first
time.

xp xrjw wjA.sn mi nn sxmt nw ra m zp-tpj m rn.T pfy n sxmt

When you encounter enemies in their barque, like those (you have), you will
prevail over the enemies of Re in the First Time in this your name of Sekhmet.
-Edfu Temple inscription

Sekhmet symbolizes the struggle of the positive and negative elements of the
universe. By appeasing her, victory of Harmony over Disorder, and Life over
Death is assured. As with the powerful, little understood forces of nature,
Sekhmet is feared.

wnnw snD.f xt xAswt mi sxmt rnpt jdw

Whose fear permeated the hill lands like Sekhmet in a year of plague.
-Tale of Sinuhe

The passage of one year to another is a time of imbalance. The ceremonies of

the New Year could only assure the inheritor of Horus the continuation of the
original work if Sekhmet was properly appeased. Without the appeasement,
the king and the land were in peril.

xw.j Hm.k r xt nbt Dwt awt r Ssr

I protect Your Incarnation from every evil thing and (I protect) your limbs
from the arrows (of pestilence).

mj.t(w) n axm bjk [sfxt] sw.t dj mk.t HA (sw) Hw.t m Ssr nb jAdw rnpt nb
Come to the Living Image of the Falcon! Protect him, put your protection
around him! Protect him from all arrows and from pestilence every year.

As Stephen Quirke so eloquently put it in "the Cult of Re," "The incantations to

appease the Furious Goddess Sekhmet at the end of the year became the
greatest litany every sung: a chorus of perhaps 730 images of the goddess."

As "Eye of Re," Sekhmet is designated as a solar goddess. She protects the sun,

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therefore protecting the order of the first time. The Eye, a feminine word in
Ancient Egyptian, is also identified with Tefnut, Hathor and Mut. syncretized
with Sekhmet.

dmDt m mwt
united with Mut
-from a Statue of Amenemhat II and Sekhmet

j sxmt jrt rA aA nsr nb(t) nrw Ha jt.s

Oh! Sekhmet, Eye of Re, Great of Flame, Lady of Terror, who surrounds her
creator.
-Temple of Edfu

sxm jrt.f jm.tn jm.s tn swnw.s tn

His eye is powerful over you(Aphophis). It devours you. It punishes you

m rn.s pwy n jmy wnmyt.(t) sxm.s n jm.tn m rn.s

in this Her name of "Devouring Flame." Her power is over you in this Her name

pwy n sxmt xr.tn n hh.s

of Sekhmet. You fall because of Her blast (fiery breath).
P. Bremner-Rhind 25,3.

The king was the final beneficiary of Atum’s evolution. Cycling through
formation from Shu, Tefnut, Geb, Nut, Isis, Osiris, Nepthys and Seth, the
"becoming's" culmination was Horus, the personification Kingship itself. As the
sun manifest its dominion over all nature, the King, the living Horus,
officiated over the earth. To assure Sekhmet’s protection, the king took as
one of his epithets the name 'son of Sekhmet.' One of the first instances
known is from a relief now in the Staaltiche Museum in Berlin depicting the
5th dynasty king, Niussere, suckling from Sekhmet’s breast.

pA mAiw Hsjw sA sxmt

Look at the fierce looking lion, son of Sekhmet.
-Thotmose III in the Taking of Joppa

Hnk Hn mwt.f sxmt

Jn nswt maat-mn-re
offering the temple vase to his mother, Sekhmet, by the King, Ma’at Men Re
(Seti I)
-Abydos

In the hymn “The Destruction of Mankind,” Re sends his Eye, in the name of
Hathor, forth to destroy, with the burning solar rays, the rebellious humans
who have fled to the desert. To the Ancient Egyptians, the word had creative
power and by Re proclaiming the goddess to be ‘powerful,’ Hathor could
henceforth manifest as the fearful aspect of the sun’s rays in the form of
rageful Sekhmet. The sun’s rays gave life, but also could sear life away.

Dd.jn nTrt tn anx.k n.j Then is Goddess said: You live because of me.

jw sxm.n.i m r(m)T jw nDm Hr jb.j

I have power over the people. It is sweet upon my heart.

Sekhmet was associated with the wadis near the desert’s edge. The hot
desert winds were likened to her fiery breath. Lions were most frequently
seen at the water holes and this iconography was brought into the temples as
the Asheru, the sacred lakes that were primarily associated with lioness
goddesses.
The tale of The Distant Goddess, describes how, in a rage, Sekhmet leaves
Egypt and travels south to Nubia. She remains there until appeased and
coaxed into returning, stopping to rest in Mut’s temple in Karnak. The Eye’s
distant journey could be a metaphor for the sun’s passage southward in
winter and return in spring.

jrt ra jj.n.Hmt st m wDat Axt jr r Tz tA jm st Hna

Her Majesty, the Eye of Re, has returned as the beneficent Udjat Eye. Uniting

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the land together with

kA Htp tj xnw.tj m ASrw xprw.s tn sxmt Hnwt tAwy.

the divine Ka. She has rested and stopped in Asheru in this her form of
Sekhmet, Mistress of the Two Lands.
-Leiden I 350

Sekhmet was ‘Lady of the Messengers of Death,’ but as forcefully as she could
loose her arrows of plague and pestilence throughout the Two Lands, with
precise, accurate litanies she could be persuaded to remove them. These
rites were the domain of the Priests of Sekhmet, the wabw sxmt. . By
knowing the formulas and proper practices to appease the irascible goddess,
they could also use this power, as well as their growing medical knowledge,
for healing. The papyroid wAD scepter, ,Sekhmet carries is a symbol of the
‘greening’ or life-giving power she possesses when appeased.
In her dual aspects, both benevolent and malevolent, Sekhmet worked to
maintain Ma’at, the universal order. She protected the sun, thereby
maintaining cyclical time. She protected the king, assuring the inheritance of
the creator to his created. She protected the Two Lands, assuring harmony
between its people. The name of one of Sekhmet’s priests in the reign of
Sahure summarizes the above themes perfectly:
-Life belongs to Sekhmet.

Sekhmet is the creative fire, the energizing the life force within the creation.
In her name of Eye of Re, she wears the solar serpent, symbol of
regeneration and life-giving current, upon her brow. She is the materialization
of universal force manifested in immanently tangible for. In her name of Lady
of the Place of the Beginning of Time, she is the receptacle of the potentiality
of positive and negative forces revealed at zp-tpy, The First Time, the
Creation of the World.

The Powerful One symbolizes the struggle of the positive and negative
elements of the universe. As ‘She who surrounds her creator with her flame.’
She is protector of the divine cosmic order, defender of Ma’at, the fixed,
unchanging, eternal pattern of existence, the universal order and harmony of
both celestial and terrestrial worlds.

As a female warrior Sekhmet is the masculine/feminine, performing the dance

of life and death, creation and destruction. Annihilating the enemies of Re,
she wipes the slate clean for creation to begin anew. She destroys with no
thought to consequence of action, merely following her inherent character.
The Khamsin wind, her fiery breath, singes the land at summer’s climax, for
the fire of the sun’s rays, which she personifies, can both give life and sear
life away. In this respect, Sekhmet symbolizes the struggle of the positive and
negative elements of the universe.

In the cosmic sphere, Sekhmet energized Ptah’s inert form, giving force to his
power of creative speech. Together with Ptah she represents the desire of
Netjer to know matter and the desire of substance to know divine spirit.
Through alternating currents, the divine pair transpose impulse and idea into
function and form.

In the terrestrial sphere, Sekhmet is the personification of rage and power

manifesting within the office of Kingship itself. If properly appeased, through
litany and offerings, She protects the king in all times of transition such as the
changing of one year to another and the changing of one monarchy to
another.

Her form of Lioness is perfectly appropriate for the lion represented, to the
Ancient Egyptians, fear and power. Thus Sekhmet represents the awe and
force of the original Cosmic Power. Her double nature, both malevolent and
beneficent was apparent. At the same time that she worked to maintain the
universal order, effectively supported the king, and with proper litany and
appeasement would remove disease and help the poor and sick, she was
responsible for annual scourges, sent her destructive messengers against the
land and spread terror and desolation across the country.

One of the names of the Lioness is Nesert, the royal serpent. Understanding

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the relationship between similar words with a common root allows one to
appreciate the characteristics that are the force of nature inherent in
Sekhmet as the Eye of Re, the Uraus upon the brow of her creator.
nsrt, the royal serpent.

nsr, flame
nsrt, flame
nsry, flame of the Uraeus
to flame against (the king's enemies)
nsr, anger

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