Music inspired by the 1999 Pharaoh game soundtrack - for the CBC ancient Egypt challenge.
Story behind the song
Music inspired by the 1999 Pharaoh game soundtrack by Henry Beckett.
Sekhmet was one of the most feared and revered of ancient Egypt's deities'.
She was portrayed as a woman with the head of a lioness, sent by Ra to destroy man for their wickedness.
Every year the ancient Egyptians would hold a 3 day festival for Sekhmet, with nonstop beer and partying to distract her from eating the Earth, then when Sekhmet woke from the hangover she would be a nice kitty for the rest of the year, as long as she was properly lavished and petted..
In order to placate Sekhmet's wrath, her priestesses performed a ritual before a different and unique statue of the goddess on each and every day of the year.
This practice resulted in hundreds of images of the goddess being preserved to this day.
Sekhmet was a deity of ancient upper Egypt, the daughter of the sun god Ra, and goddess of divine retribution.
Bast, who shared all of her attributes, and actually pre-dated Sekhmet, was worshiped in lower Egypt before the unification.
After the unification of upper & lower Egypt, both goddesses were so highly revered, that instead of joining the two into one deity, Sekhmet became the dominant warrior goddess portrayed as a woman with the head of a lioness, while Bast became protector of home and healing, often depicted as a black domestic cat.