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ÉLITE FRANÇAISE

NUMÉRO 11, NOVEMBRE 2020

From revenge to the

destruction of Mankind

Mirna Ossama

Gods and stories preoccupied the ancient Ra, being satisfied, asked her to stop, but Hathor,
Egyptians. Obsessed with legends, there are who has become bloodthirsty Sekhmet, refuses to
several including one telling a symbol of anger leave the torture of mortal beings where she has
and vengeance than punishment, where the sun found her pleasure. To stop her, Ra then orders
god Ra, creator of the universe, decides to that 7,000 jars of beer be mixed with red ocher to
chastise the rebels, but how long will his anger resemble blood and be taken to Dendera where it
remain! floods the plains. Towards dawn, when Sekhmet
awoke to continue her slaughter, seeing this

The story begins after Ra created the bloodthirsty drink, she drank it until she passed
world and was the king of gods and mankind. out. Having slept, Ra transformed her another
The humans, knowing the creation myth and time to wake up the peaceful Hathor, goddess of
feeling that he could no longer run the affairs of gentleness and benevolence. Having known what
the world, were plotting against Ra as he had she did being Sekhmet, she collapsed and fled to
grown old. The latter, having known their plans her temple in Dendera and so that Ra could
to dethrone him, calls the gods, secretly, to the reconcile and calm her, he offered her the sun
disk and put it on her head.
council to ask for their help in finding a sanction
for sinners. Noun, "the primeval ocean," advised
him to send his eye, Hathor, to strike the humans, Eventually, the day of her re-transformation
and Ra agreed. Hathor, the daughter of Ra, was into Hathor became a day that the devotees of
the goddess of love, beauty, music and joy, Hathor celebrate by drinking wine as marked on
transformed into Sekhmet, goddess of war in the the temple walls. What made historians think
form of a lioness and released into the world, she that this myth was invented to justify the
obeyed her father and covered the earth with the excessive consumption of alcohol in the annual
blood of its prey and spread terror among the celebrations of ancient Egyptian civilization.
inhabitants of the earth.

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