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Sekhmet: snippets from ANET
Feb. 28th, 2007 05:12 pmFrom James Pritchard's Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, aka ANET, aka a jolly useful book. :-)
The story of Si-Nuhe refers to the pharoah as "that beneficent god, the fear of whom pervaded foreign countries like (the fear of) Sekhmet in a year of pestilence" (p 19). King Men-Kheper-Re is called "the fierce lion, the son of Sekhmet" (p 23) and Seti I is described as "a Bastet terrible in combat". Similarly, Amen-Hotep's face is "terrible like that of Bastet".
( Sucking up to pharaoh )
( The Theban Creation )
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Prichard, James B. (ed). Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (3rd ed). Princeton University, 1969. ( Read more... )
The story of Si-Nuhe refers to the pharoah as "that beneficent god, the fear of whom pervaded foreign countries like (the fear of) Sekhmet in a year of pestilence" (p 19). King Men-Kheper-Re is called "the fierce lion, the son of Sekhmet" (p 23) and Seti I is described as "a Bastet terrible in combat". Similarly, Amen-Hotep's face is "terrible like that of Bastet".
( Sucking up to pharaoh )
( The Theban Creation )
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Prichard, James B. (ed). Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (3rd ed). Princeton University, 1969. ( Read more... )
