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Egyptian

Sekhmet

the lioness whose breath is the desert wind

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Sekhmet is the sun's rage made flesh, a lioness who nearly unmade humanity before she was calmed by an ocean of red beer; to dream of her is to feel your own fury, and to learn even fierce heat can gentle back to warmth.

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She waded through the fields drunk on slaughter, and only when the gods flooded the land with beer stained red as blood did she drink herself to sleep.

The same burning breath that spread plague across the world was begged, in temples full of incense, to turn and carry sickness back out of the sick.

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