Geography/Culture: Egyptian: especially Memphis.
Description: Great and terrible Goddess of the fiery drought causing power of the sun and the deadly destructive passion of fighting and war; She Who belches fire; She Who triumphs over Her enemies; Divine Eye of Ra; She Who knows how to make right use of the heart; Matron of metalworkers.
Invocations, Pleas, Hymns and Other Homage to HER: Sekhmet.
To Whom Sacred: cobra; lioness; intoxicating mixture of beer and pomegranate juices; solar-disk; uraeus.
Iconography: portrayed as a woman whose lioness head is surmounted by the solar disk encircled by the uraeus.
Male Associates: son, Nefertem, by consort: Ptah; and/or the ruling Pharoah.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Greek transliteration variant, Sakhmis, S*XMYS.
• She came into being as an aspect of Hat-Hor, Womb-of-the-Sun.
• See also the Goddess Memphis, White-Walls, Who is linked with Neith, World-Weaver.
• She is sometimes identified with Mut, Mother.
• Variant, Sechmet.
• Variant, Sekhait.
• Variant, Sekhauit.
• Variant, Sekhautet.
• Variant, Sekhem.
• Variant, Sekmet.
• A fierce form of Ubasti, She-of-the-City-Bast.