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SEKHMET, also spelled SACHMET, SAKHET, and SAKHMET, was originally the war goddess of Upper Egypt, although when the the capital of Egypt was moved to Memphis, her cult moved as well. Sekhmet was believed to protect the pharaoh in battle, canvassing the land, and destroying his enemies with arrows of fire. In order to placate Sekhmet's wrath, her priesthood felt compelled to perform a ritual before a different statue of her on each day of the year, and it is estimated that over seven hundred statues of Sekhmet once stood in the temple of Amenhotep III, on the west bank of the Nile. Some believe her priests protected her statues from theft or vandalism by coating them with anthrax, and so Sekhmet was also seen as a bringer of disease, to be prayed to so as to cure such ills by placating her. She was envisioned as a fierce lioness, and in art, was depicted as such, or as a woman with the head of a lioness, dressed in red, the colour of blood.
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