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 * This is for T Coombs **

I'm doing the Egyptian gods Sekhmet and Ra for the Book of the Dead project. Ra is the sun god, father of many gods including sekhmet. The egyptians believed that the Pharaoh was the son of Ra. Legend says that Ra was born at the crack of dawn and began a journey across the sky in the manjet-boat. On this journey he is joined he is joined by many gods. The manjet-boat would sail through 12 provinces representing 12 hours of daylight. When nightfall came he was eaten by the god of night Apophis and began his journey of darkness in the mesektet-boat through the 12 hours of darkness. Nobody really knows what Ra looked like, but most people say he was the sun itself.

Sekhmet is the scorching,destructive power of the sun, the protector of her father Ra. Her name means "She who is Powerful" or "Mighty One". She is responsible for war,fire,heat,vengeance,enchantments,mumificatian,hunting,and courage. Sekhmet also has many names such as Sakhet, Sechmet, Nesert, and Sacmis. As you may know her father was Ra, but her husbund was Ptah the god of craftsmanship and thier son was Nefertem. She was also as a lioness headed woman. One legend of Sekhmet is on the battle field she embodied the strength and bravery of the lion, expressing unbounded delight in the pray that fell to her. She was believed to protect the Pharough in battle, she was sometimes known as "The Scarlet Lady" because of her lust for blood.



=‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ This is for D Choi = = Sekhmet = Sekhmet is one of the Egyptian gods I chose for the Book of the Dead Project. Sekhmet was given the title Eye of Ra. She has different names such as Sakhmet and Sekhet. Sekhmet means "She who is Powerful" or "Mighty One". Sehkmet is the goddess of sunset, destruction, death, and wisdom. She was also a goddess of healing and surgery. It is said that she is able to cure. She represents scorching, burning, and destructive heat of the sun. She is a fierce goddess of war and the destroyer of the enemies of Ra and Osiris. Associated with war and retribution, she was said to use arrows to pierce her enemies with fire, her breath being the blazing hot desert wind. Once, she nearly destroyed man kind if it wasn't for Ra's pity which made Ra trick Sekhmet. She had uncontrollable temper (she had anger issues). Sekhmet is the wife of Ptah and she is the mother of Nefertem. She usually takes form of a woman with a lioness's head. = **Set** = The other Egyptian god I chose is Set. There are other names of Set like Seth, Setekh, Sut, Sutekh, and Suty. Set is the god of chaos, confusion, storms, winds, desert, and foreign lands. ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍Set used to be worshipped as the god of wind and desert storms and his followers prayed that Set would grant them the strength of the storms. It is said that Set used to be the ally of his brothers and sister Isis, Nephthys, and Osiris and the defender of their father, Ra. Once, Set murdered his brother, Osiris, and scattered his body around the world. Isis then had to search for the pieces and then Osiris was resurrected. After Set murdered Osiris, Set became strongly associated with evil. Set became a god of evil in eternal conflict with the gods of light, especially Osiris's son, Horus. Set usually takes form with a head of a strange animal known as the //Set beast// or the //Typhonian beast// that resembled a donkey or an aadvark//.// The //Set beast// can appear with a human body or a canine body. He can also appear with an erect forked tail. This egyptian god also comes in the form of various animals. In the depictions of his battle with Horus, he is often in the form of a black pig or hippopotamus.

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Nut : Nut has 3 names that you can say. They are Nut,Nuit, and Nwt. Nut is the goddess of the sky and heavens. She is the daughter of Shu and Tefnut. She is the grandaughter of Ra and her brother/husband is Geb.======

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What Nut looked like: When Nut went up in the heavens on her back she went in the form of a cow. Most of the time she takes form of a naked women holding her body in an arch facing downwards. Her arms and legs were the pillars of the sky, hands and feet was thought to touch the ground at the 4 points on the horizon.======

What I thought was interesting was that Nut became a mother-like protection of the dead. She was often painted in the inside lid of the sarcophagus, protecting the mummy.
Tefnut :Tefnut is a goddess of moisture but strongly associated with the sun and moon. Tefnut has two names that you can say which are Tefenet and Tefnet. Her name means "She of moisture." Tefnut has looks like a woman with a lion's head or just a woman. She always wore a solardisk and carries a sceptre which usually toke form of a cobra. Tefnut was the daughter of Ra, the brother/husband of Shu, and the mother of Nut and Geb. What I found interesting was that when Shu and Tefnut went out into the waters of Nun. Their father Ra, thought he had lost them so he sent out his eye to go looking for them. When Shu and Tefnut returned, Ra was so happy that he cried and his tears formed the 1st human beings.