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The History of God
FIELD No. 8517
Visual depiction of Sekhmet

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Vol. II · Polytheism · war

Sekhmet

Egyptian lioness goddess of war

striding through a battlefield with a solar disk crown, her breath igniting the enemy ranks with divine fire

Organization
Mixed Bronze-Age pantheons (Vedic + Mesopotamian)
Time period
c. 2000 BCE – 500 BCE
Location
Eurasia (India + Mesopotamia)
Archetype
war

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.

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 Visual depiction of Loki

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 Visual depiction of Ogoun Panama

Ogoun Panama

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 Visual depiction of Simurgh

Simurgh

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian

 Visual depiction of Xochiquetzal

Xochiquetzal

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