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| | Sekhmet - Egyptian Mythology - Lioness Goddess of War - Eye of Ra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | For a time, a myth developed around this in which Ra, the sun god (of Upper Egypt), created her from his fiery eye, to destroy mortals which conspired against him (Lower Egypt). |
 | | After Sekhmet's worship moved to Memphis, as Horus and Ra had been identified as one another, under the name Ra-Herakhty, when the two religious systems were merged, and Ra became seen as a form of Atum, known as Atum-Ra, so Sekhmet, as a form of Hathor, was seen as Atum's mother. |
 | | In particular, she was seen as the mother of Nefertem, the youthful form of Atum, and so was said to have Ptah, Nefertem's father, as a husband. |
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