Bastet the gentle and Sekhmet the vicious. Some theory says they are the same person just two side of one deity , my shot from Medinet Habu, Luxor.
1. A faience amulet of Sekhmet (after 656 BC).
2. A bronze votive statuette of Bastet (Late Period, 664 – 332 BC).
Sekhmet stands with her hands at her sides, wearing a long sheath dress and a sun disk. Bastet wears a short-sleeved, tight-fitting dress decorated with a cross-hatched pattern, and carries an aegis in her left hand.
Sekhmet and Bastet had a dual nature, with Sekhmet being the peaceful counterpart of Bastet. The Egyptian myth of the Eye of Re describes the goddess Hathor-Tefnut: “She rages like Sekhmet and is friendly like Bastet.”
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