Brand, Pr Nefrt

Size
8 x 2.5 x 3inches
20 x 7x 9cm

Her nicknames are The Great Lady, Mahbouba Ptah, Ain Ra, Lady of War, Lady of the Earthly (Upper and Lower Egypt), Lady of the Libyan Land, the Giant and many other titles.

Sekhmet whose name means the most powerful. She worshiped at the entrances of valleys, especially in Upper Egypt, where she stopped while returning from Nubia after a quarrel with her father, Ra.

Sekhmet was considered one of the various forms of the sun god's eye. Hence, she combined her qualities as both a destructive and a softener; She spread diseases and cured them, and she protected the king and attacked his enemies.

It is the most important Egyptian deity in the form of a lioness (female lion). She is the goddess of the contradictory nature of the lioness, as she combined the evil, vengeful and destructive nature, with her benevolent nature as a goddess of protection and healing.

She is the wife of the idol "Ptah" in the "Memphis" triad (Ptah, Sekhmet, and Nefertam). She is the goddess of oppression in ancient Egypt, the daughter of the deity "Ra", and his eye that attacks the hostile forces. She is one of the most important deities that embodies the eye of the sun god "Ra".

According to religious myths, the idol "Ra" sent his eye ("Sekhmet", or "Hathor"), to punish those who revolted against him or who had rebelled against him, after he had reached his old age; After consulting the gods of the Ninth, he decided to destroy mankind by sending his eye to carry out this fatal task, before finally deciding to pardon them, and seeking the means to respond "Sekhmet" to their extermination after it was determined to do so.

She was associated with the goddess "Hathor" strongly through this role, and she was also associated with the goddess "Mut", the goddess of "good", with the goddess "Bastet", the goddess of "Bubasta", and with the other goddesses who took the form of a lioness.

The idol "Sekhmet" was a guardian goddess of the kings in their wars, and she bore some war titles. Perhaps its connection to that role is based on blowing fire in the faces of its enemies. In light of this, the hot desert wind was also called ("Sekhmet's breath").

Sekhmet was also associated with the epidemic, so that the epidemic was known by the name (Messenger of Sekhmet). She played a role as protector of the king, and as his mother. She was also associated with healing, so she was called (Sekhmet, The Lady of Life). She was also called: (Sekhmet, the Great, Lady of the Two Lands: ¤xmt aAt, nbt tAwy).

Her name means "Sekhmet" (the strong one), and it corresponds to the nature of the goddess in her vengeful and vengeful qualities.

This goddess appears in the form of a lioness, or a female with the head of a lioness, whose head is surmounted by the sun disc, cobra snake and wig. Sekhmet wears an interwoven robe often colored in red, which reflects her nature, as she was called "the lady of the red lines", which may symbolize her nature as the goddess of Lower Egypt, or perhaps as a warrior goddess.

Although Memphis was the main center of her worship, as she worshiped as a member of the exiled trinity with Ptah and Nefertum, this goddess has had many temples in many other regions. A shrine was built for her in Abu Sir, as it appeared in the inscriptions of many temples until the Greek and Roman eras. ... [1]

There is a temple for her worship in her image "Sekhmet-Hathor" in "Kom al-Hosn", west of the Delta. Many passages and incantations indicate that she had an important and wide role in magic treatment, as a healing goddess whose name means "strong".