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| User: | sekhmet_ra (544421)
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| Name: | Sekhmet |
| Bio: | "Then it came to pass that the majesty of Re went into decline. Then mankind began to devise plans to be enemies of Re. Then the majesty of Nun said: 'May your eye be sent, so that it may smite them for you those who plot as evil ones.' Then this goddess came, and she killed mankind in the desert. This goddess said: 'I have prevailed over mankind, and it was pleasant in my heart.' And that is how Sekhmet ('the Powerful One') came into being. The confused of the night will wade in their blood. Then, maidservants crushed barley to make beer, and red Nubian ocher was added to this mash. Then it was like human blood, and seven thousand jars of this beer were made. Now when the day broke for the slaying of mankind by this goddess, the fields were covered up to the height of three palms with liquid, according to the power of the majesty of the god Re. Then this goddess came at dawn, and she found this land inundated. Her face looked beautiful therein. Then she drank, and it was pleasant in her heart. She returned drunk having failed to recognize mankind... |
| Interests: | 146: absolutely fabulous, academics, aimee mann, al-gazaleen tea, alec guiness, alfred hitchcock, ancient egyptian literature, animals, anthropology, arabic, archaeology, art, as time goes by, audrey hepburn, bagmata, ballet, bbc, belle & sebastian, blackadder, books, bridget jones, canada, canadian opera company, cary grant, cats, cbc, children's literature, chocolate, coldplay, colin firth, corfu, cynical optimism, dairy products, damien rice, dancing, deserts, dvds, e.m. forster, egyptology, eights, elizabeth peters, exercise balls, fawlty towers, films, french, gerald durrell, goat watching, gregory peck, group of seven, hamish macbeth, harry potter, hawksley workman, hieroglyphs, his dark materials, horatio hornblower, inspector morse, ioan gruffudd, irn bru, james kudelka, jane austen, jean-paul sartre, jeff buckley, jimmy stewart, jordan, kahun, katherine hepburn, kraft tea, latin, lawren harris, lawrence of arabia, lord of the rings, lorenna mckennitt, madaba, magritte, mangoes, marshalltown trowels, massage, matisse, mesopotamia, michael nyman, monty python, mr. bean, museums, musicals, nargila, national ballet of canada, night walks, obsession, opera, oriental studies, oxford, peter sellers, petit prince, petra, philip glass, philip pullman, photography, pickles, pink panther, polymaths, pomegranates, preston sturges, pride and prejudice, procrastination, queen's college, radiohead, reading, repression, robertson davies, room with a view, rowan atkinson, rowing, royal ontario museum, rufus wainwright, sand, sarah slean, scotland, shakespeare, sherlock holmes, sisters, soundtracks, soup, st. aldate's, stars, stratford festival, swallows and amazons, tea pots, tell el-masha'la, thai food, the brontes, the doves, the goons, tintin, tolkien, tony hancock, toronto, travis, trees, trinity college, university of toronto, vicar of dibley, wannabe intellectuals, westcar papyrus, william wyler, writing, yes minister |
| Schools: | None listed |
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| Friend of: | 7: asru, hellebelle, julia_fractal, moosehorn, niankhsekhmet, oceanpark, purelush |
| Member of: | 6: annetaintor, archaeological, egyptology, oxonians, paidmembers, scs |
| Account type: | Basic Account |
