Sekhmet: Egypt's Most Dangerous Goddess | Egyptian Mythology Sleep Story

Fall asleep to the full Egyptian mythology sleep story of Sekhmet, the lioness goddess of war who once unleashed a plague upon humanity and had to be tricked into mercy, told slowly in a soothing voice for a long and restful night. This is a gripping ancient history sleep story for adults who love history for sleep, weaving you gently into the most dangerous and forgotten myths of ancient Egypt. Not only the fire of the lioness, but the full arc: beginning in the last warm hour before the desert cools and the darkness gathers at its edge, then crossing the threshold of the ancient sand into the deep past. The story moves through the cool halls of the House of Ptah in Memphis, where the origin of the goddess was kept, and into the moment of her birth as the Daughter of the Sun, the Eye sent down in wrath. From there it passes through the court of the aging king, the plot that mankind laid against him, the secret council held among the gods, and the descent of the Eye in fire, through the great slaughter in the sand that would not stop and the joy within the fury that had no limit. It turns then toward the king's deep regret, the messengers dispatched in haste southward to Elephantine, the seven thousand jars of red ochre ale poured across the fields before dawn, the red fields at first light, and the drinking and the slow sleep of the lioness. She wakes as Hathor, and the story continues through the festival of drunkenness held in her memory, the ancient paradox of pestilence and healing held in one divine hand, the healer-priests who tended her rites through the ages, the shield she became around the pharaoh in battle, and the two faces of the flame, before drifting gently back through the red dawn in recollection and letting the candle of the story cool at last into the stillness of the night. It moves gently through the meanings gathered around her name: the fire that carries its own remedy, the destroyer who becomes the physician, the love concealed within fury, the Eye that burns and the Eye that heals, the duality of the sacred flame, and the mercy that waits on the far side of wrath. Sekhmet. Ra. Ptah. Hathor. The seven thousand jars. The red fields at dawn. The lioness who slept and woke as gentleness. A bedtime story for adults drawn from the oldest strata of Egyptian mythology, and a quiet hour of history and mythology for sleep. ───────────────────────────── CHAPTERS ───────────────────────────── 0:00 The Last Warm Hour 2:27 Across the Desert Sill 5:56 The House of Ptah 9:26 Daughter of the Sun 12:56 The Aging King 16:25 The Plot of Mankind 19:55 The Secret Council 23:24 The Eye Descends 26:54 The Slaughter in the Sand 30:24 The Joy That Would Not Stop 33:53 The King's Regret 37:23 Messengers to Elephantine 40:53 Seven Thousand Jars 44:22 The Red Fields at Dawn 47:52 The Drinking and the Sleep 51:21 The Waking of Hathor 54:51 The Festival of Drunkenness 58:21 Lady of Pestilence, Lady of Healing 1:01:50 The Priests Who Were Physicians 1:05:20 Shield of the Pharaoh 1:08:50 The Two Faces of the Flame 1:12:19 Drifting Back Through the Red Dawn 1:15:49 The Candle and the Cooling Sand ───────────────────────────── #EgyptianMythology #SleepStory #Sekhmet Every episode is created for this channel from original research, original writing, narration, visual direction, and production.