Definition of Sekhet

1. Noun. A lion-headed Egyptian goddess; typifies life-destroying power of the sun.

Exact synonyms: Eye Of Ra
Generic synonyms: Egyptian Deity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sekhet

Seifert surface
Seifert surfaces
Seignette's salt
Seigneur de Bayard
Seiji Ozawa
Seiler's cartilage
Seine
Seine River
Seip
Seisachtheia
Seismosaurus
Seiurus
Seiurus aurocapillus
Sejm
Sekgalagadi
Sekhet (current term)
Sekhmet
Sekhon
Selaginella apoda
Selaginella eatonii
Selaginella eremophila
Selaginella lepidophylla
Selaginella rupestris
Selaginellaceae
Selaginellales
Selah
Selangor
Selar
Selar crumenophthalmus
Selcraig

Literary usage of Sekhet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Egyptian Literature: Comprising Egyptian Tales, Hymns, Litanies, Invocations by Epiphanius Wilson (1901)
"round Sekhet-hetep, but I have unfettered Horus [and taken him from] Set, and Set hath north, west, and east of heaven upon the ..."

2. The little man, and other satires by John Galsworthy (1915)
"Sekhet: A DREAM Sekhet! She who devours the evil souls in the underworld! ... It. was after seeing Sekhet in her dim cell at Karnak that I dreamed. ..."

3. Thrice-greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis by Hermes (1906)
"tells us that the Great Triad of Memphis consisted of Ptah, Sekhet, ... The Syzygy or female counterpart of Ptah was Sekhet, " who was at once his sister ..."

4. Thrice-greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis by Hermes (1906)
"tells us that the Great Triad of Memphis consisted of Ptah, Sekhet, ... was Sekhet, " who was at once his sister and wife, and the mother of his son ..."

5. Handbook of Archæology: Egyptian--Greek--Etruscan--Roman by Hodder Michael Westropp (1878)
"With regard to their costume, the statues of the women are always draped, but generally with a very slight vesture, which SEATED FIGURE Sekhet. ..."

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