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Origin of the name SEKHET.
Etymology of the
name SEKHET.
Meaning of the baby name SEKHET.
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SEKHET. "Field"
or "Garden." (The Theosophical Review, v. 36, 1905).
An
Egyptian priestess of Amen
Ra, the sister of the great officer Rere,
of the XIXth dynasty.
Sekhet, the goddess whose name was formerly
written Pasht. She was the daughter of Ra, and the consort of the
god Pthah, whence one of her chief titles was derived, "The First
Friend of Pthah." She was represented as a lion-headed woman,
having upon her head the lunar horns and solar disk, and holding in her
hands either the crux ansata, and the papyrus staff of the goddesses, or
else a kind of shield or aegis, and a basket. She was a destroying
deity, and seemed to symbolise the deathly power of the sun's rays.
She had also as an infernal deity the care of the Egyptian hell, and the
direction of the torture of the souls immured therein. Sekhet
had a variety of offices and attributes, and bore different names in them
all. As the goddess of Northern Egypt she was Uatit;
as the consort of the god Shu,
and his associate in the destruction of mankind at the command of Ra,
she was named Tefnut;
as the creatress of the Asiatic or yellow race, a race despised by the
Egyptians and regarded as impure, she was called Pasht
(?) and in her more favourable aspect, as the protectress of mankind, she
was called Beset, from whence was derived the Bubastis
of the Greek writers. In this last characteristic she was figured as
holding a sistrum or a vase for libation, and the cat was especially
sacred to her. The Greeks equated her with Diana, and possibly
Latona. Seti I. built a temple for her adoration at Speos Artemidos,
after his return from his Syrian victories.
(An Archaic Dictionary, Cooper, 1876).
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