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| Lioness goddess Hathor-Sekhmet in a hidden sanctuary |
Fiction's archaeologist Anson Hunter theorizes:
Could the tomb of Sekhmet, of a neter, or divine one, actually exist,
the remains of a goddess who once lived and died?
We tend to think of a deity
as someone immortal, existing outside of space and time, but the Egyptians
believed that a divine race called the Neteru
once ruled Egypt in an early epoch before the pharaohs. The Turin papyrus
lists their life spans in hundred or sometimes thousands of years. All things
die, the Egyptians believed - every man, every woman, every god, every goddess,
every animal. Only the High God lived forever.
There is evidence that the sanctuary of Sekhmet
may have been breached at other times of calamity in Egypt’s past, including
the three chaotic periods known as the Intermediate Periods – hundreds of years
of devastation, drought, famine, scorching sun and pestilence that spread
beyond Egypt to the known world...Except from The Anson Hunter series
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