I found myself here so Ill intoduce myself: I am an egyptian pagan from Ohio. I look forward to open exchange of knowledge and positive exchange.

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blackmamba wrote:hey lotus are u who i think you are black lotus from another pagan forum the admins are isis and orion i have the same name there if not merry meet and bright blessings but if so glad to see you could join and if u are form the other forum or not hope you have a great stay
Pedal of the LoTuS wrote:riddle me this....do you know of the Dark Lotus?!?
Lotus wrote:
There is the dark Lotus of Sehkmet the flower that Bast used to change herself into the vengeful hating Sehkmet
While Bast and Sekhmet have been paired together since as early as 1850 BCE, Their relationship is not that of the pacified goddess paired with an angrier goddess. Bast clearly has a role in antiquity as an avenger, and even in the very later periods She was still depicted bearing the divine eye of Ra and Heru [GR: Horus] and wearing Wadjet -- symbols of the creator god's presence and just retribution.
Bast and Sekhmet were paired, but not as foils. The main place of Bast's worship was in Lower Egypt, while Sekhmet (as a form of Het-hert) was a Southern goddess.
Testimonies to Bast's protective nature can be found in the dozens of war shields with Her device on them that have been unearthed in excavations. However, at no time in the history of Kemetic religion were Sekhmet and Bast associated in a "sister-sister", "mother-daughter", "aunt-niece" or "big bad lioness/nice kitty" context. The phrase, "She rages as Sekhmet, She is pacified as Bast." is a fairly late one (150 BCE), and in specifying "Kemetic religion", one is implying the state of the theology previous to the Third Intermediate/Late Period.
Sisters in ancient Egyptian theology did exist, but were extremely important and rare occurences, and Bast and Sekhmet in particular are simply not mentioned in this sort of relationship. Aset [GR: Isis] and Nebt-het [GR: Nephthys], Who are sisters, share a distinctive relationship that carries through into Their iconography and depictions. Rarely do you see one without the other in funerary scenes, and there are numerous paired statues of the two, as well as extant mythology relating Them as born of the same parents.
The same is not true in antiquity with Bast and Sekhmet, aside from references of Ra as Their father -- a designation that rings true at one time or another for nearly every ancient Egyptian goddess.
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