Sekhmet

Tada, I proudly present..... Sekhmet.

A contest entry to Feline-Icity's Acient Egypt Contest [link]

Contest: Nope, didnt win either

Personally, I don't know anything about egypt's gods except Ra, until I played Age of Mythology. Well, Sekhmet, as portrayed in the game is a rather muscular lioness with the body of a woman. I did some reading on her bio. Her name means "(one who is) powerful", she is a bringer of disease as well as cure to disease. I remembered her had a story of bloodlust... Kept on drinking the blood of human even after a war, and that almost wipe out entire humanity. Then, Ra tricked her into drinking the river full of red wine (like blood) so she kinda.... went drunk... and stopped the slaughter, and humanity was save... yeeppi


At first, I was worried about the colors picked. Then, everything seems to turn out just fine. The original Sekhmet (I mean the very original one) has a scepter and a.... something on her head, a round hat I think, with a cobra along it (Can find the original one here [link]). There are many other version that "improved" this original picture. Making her looking much sexier, appealing, woo-hoo, OMG, Holy cow! and such, rather than a flat 2D symbolic drawing. Some with a sword, while some with fire bursting out of her hand. But I guess I will just do it my way. Fire is good. And adding more cloths is good.

Goddess of destruction and disease. And that's her. Hope you like it