Special thanks to dear TG Karnonnos and Warlock666 for contributing to and inspiring this article.
Sekhmet, our ancient Egyptian goddess, embodies fierce duality as both a goddess of war and destruction and a goddess of healing and magic. Her name, derived from the Egyptian word “Sekhem,” meaning power, earned her the title “The Powerful One.”
Please see TG Karnonnos' excellent post on Sekhmet (scroll down within the thread)
https://www.ancient-forums.com/thre...hys-sekhmet-now-live-nov-17-to-nov-23.294421/
But Sekhmet’s influence goes beyond Egypt. In addition to being a high-ranking ancient goddess commonly known for her strength, mightiness, and central importance to the kundalini serpent energy, she is an important goddess to the African continent and its people as a whole.
Her energies resonate deeply in African spiritual traditions, particularly through her identity as Mami Wata, a revered and respected water spirit in West, South, and East African traditions, but most notably in West African Vodun/Voodoo practices and in the Ifa-Orisha tradition of the Yorubas.
To clarify further, though Sekhmet is Mami Wata, she is head of a legion of entities also known as Mami Wata. But simply, Mami Wata represents the serpent energy, the kundalini shakti, in deeper Africa and Sekhmet’s connection with it.
As previously researched, we already know that the ancient Egyptian culture of the gods is connected and seen within the language and culture of many Black groups in Africa. There are many parallels.
Mami Wata’s essence goes back to ancient linguistic and cultural roots. The term “Mami” derives from “Ma” or “Mama,” meaning truth and wisdom in ancient Egyptian, Coptic, Galla, and Demotic languages. “Wata” evolves from the Egyptian “Uati” (or Uatchit, Wadjet) and “Uat-ur,” both tied to water and the serpent energy, with parallels in the Khoisan “Ouata,” also meaning water.
In ancient scripts, the interchangeable use of “v,” “w,” and “u” (where “w” often emphasized “u”) links “Uati” to “Vati” or “Wati,” and even to names like Saraswati and Paravati in Hinduism, reinforcing themes of water, wisdom, transformation, and the divine feminine.
Interestingly, according to Robert Masters in “Sekhmet: Way of the Five Bodies,” “There is a tradition that says that there once existed an elaborate system of sexual mysticism and magic originating with Sekhmet and which later was lost, perhaps taken away by Her. Important for this system were both the Kundalini energy and those centers of psychic energy known in India as chakras… The word shakti is itself a Hindu derivation from the name Sekhmet.“
Based on what we know about our Goddess and the kundalini, this is more than likely the truth.
Mami Wata is often depicted as a half-woman, half-serpent being, embodying the shakti energy. She represents the seductive, creative, and destructive force tied to water’s primordial meaning (the life force) and its capacity for healing, transformation and magick.
According to African teachings and legends, Mami Wata waits in the depths of the ocean, abducting her followers and, on occasion, random people and transporting them to the mystical underwater realm to test their worth. If she decides they are worthy, she is claimed to pass on secret teachings and hidden information to the individual before returning them to shore safely. They become more spiritually enlightened, fortunate, or even physically transformed than they were before being taken. If she thinks them worthless, they are thought to be destroyed and drowned.
Of course, this is all an allegory for the kundalini shakti power and the consequences of being uninitiated or spiritually unprepared.
Sekhmet taught and guided her disciples how to spiritually advance and use their kundalini serpent for magick and healing. She was the main goddess that taught how to use the kundalini power to heal people. Which is why her temples were temples of medicine. This knowledge made her priests very skilled healers.
In Necrominon - Egyptian Sethanic Magick by Michael W. Ford, the author writes, “Sekhmet, like Isis, was also a powerful goddess of magic, having a specific knowledge of sorcery and that of healing as well.” Like Isis, Sekhmet was known as "Werethekau" or "Great of Magic."
This emphasizes Sekhmet's association with spiritual power, particularly the serpent force of transformative energy, and she taught her followers to harness this energy for healing and spiritual growth, making her temples vital hubs of esoteric knowledge.
The serpent energy in general was a huge central theme in primarily all traditional African religions, i.e., snakes/serpents residing in the deep waters, but the Mami Wata worship and tradition represents Sekhmet's sacred cult, likened to Shaktism in the east.
The Mami Wata tradition, particularly among the Igbo, Ewe, and Yoruba, involved serpent exercises and dances that invoke the kundalini energy, connected to the all divine. Devotees, dressed in red and white (symbolizing power and purity and are alchemical colors), mimic the fluidity of water and serpentine motions, entering trance states to channel spiritual power and energy. Other rituals include that of purification and offerings.
Most substantial teachings, however, have been lost, as were many ancient gentile traditions, such as with the Berber people in Northern Africa. They also tied a lot of their sacred rites to Egypt itself, as with many African peoples, but their roots and spiritual traditions were eradicated by Islamists and later with Christianity, to the point where more evidence exists linking South Africa to Ancient Egypt than with many places in North Africa.
Thankfully we have the Temple of Zeus, restoring these traditions and connections for each race and people.
As patron goddess of Africa, Sekhmet is connected to all races on the continent and also had an important role in creating the Black race under our All Father Zeus and is the spiritual mother of the Black race.
Her power date and timing of astrological relevance is when the Sun goes into 15 degrees of Leo—true Lammas in the northern hemisphere—which is the essence of solar/Leo energy, celebrating nature's bounty, spiritually and materially, and the strength in our souls.
For those in the southern hemisphere and in Africa, this time marks Imbolc, late winter. Imbolc is a fire holiday that still connects to the solar spark of life, awakening.
The lion, a symbol of her strength and ferocity, reflects her power and fierceness. The tarot card, the "Strength card," connects with this.
This year the Sun is at 15 degrees. Leo falls on August 8th. So any Zevist can honor her if they wish to do so on that day.
May Sekhmet restore every African Zevist and every Black Zevist to greatness.
Thanks to TG Karnonnos and Ayleth for image of Great Sekhmet*
Hail Zeus/Amun
Hail Sekhmet
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Sources:
Mami Wata: Africa's Ancient God/dess Unveiled Vol. I, Book by Awono Mama Zogbé
Uraeus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uraeus
www.mamiwata.com
Sekhmet, our ancient Egyptian goddess, embodies fierce duality as both a goddess of war and destruction and a goddess of healing and magic. Her name, derived from the Egyptian word “Sekhem,” meaning power, earned her the title “The Powerful One.”
Please see TG Karnonnos' excellent post on Sekhmet (scroll down within the thread)
https://www.ancient-forums.com/thre...hys-sekhmet-now-live-nov-17-to-nov-23.294421/
But Sekhmet’s influence goes beyond Egypt. In addition to being a high-ranking ancient goddess commonly known for her strength, mightiness, and central importance to the kundalini serpent energy, she is an important goddess to the African continent and its people as a whole.
Her energies resonate deeply in African spiritual traditions, particularly through her identity as Mami Wata, a revered and respected water spirit in West, South, and East African traditions, but most notably in West African Vodun/Voodoo practices and in the Ifa-Orisha tradition of the Yorubas.
To clarify further, though Sekhmet is Mami Wata, she is head of a legion of entities also known as Mami Wata. But simply, Mami Wata represents the serpent energy, the kundalini shakti, in deeper Africa and Sekhmet’s connection with it.
As previously researched, we already know that the ancient Egyptian culture of the gods is connected and seen within the language and culture of many Black groups in Africa. There are many parallels.
Mami Wata’s essence goes back to ancient linguistic and cultural roots. The term “Mami” derives from “Ma” or “Mama,” meaning truth and wisdom in ancient Egyptian, Coptic, Galla, and Demotic languages. “Wata” evolves from the Egyptian “Uati” (or Uatchit, Wadjet) and “Uat-ur,” both tied to water and the serpent energy, with parallels in the Khoisan “Ouata,” also meaning water.
In ancient scripts, the interchangeable use of “v,” “w,” and “u” (where “w” often emphasized “u”) links “Uati” to “Vati” or “Wati,” and even to names like Saraswati and Paravati in Hinduism, reinforcing themes of water, wisdom, transformation, and the divine feminine.
Interestingly, according to Robert Masters in “Sekhmet: Way of the Five Bodies,” “There is a tradition that says that there once existed an elaborate system of sexual mysticism and magic originating with Sekhmet and which later was lost, perhaps taken away by Her. Important for this system were both the Kundalini energy and those centers of psychic energy known in India as chakras… The word shakti is itself a Hindu derivation from the name Sekhmet.“
Based on what we know about our Goddess and the kundalini, this is more than likely the truth.
Mami Wata is often depicted as a half-woman, half-serpent being, embodying the shakti energy. She represents the seductive, creative, and destructive force tied to water’s primordial meaning (the life force) and its capacity for healing, transformation and magick.
According to African teachings and legends, Mami Wata waits in the depths of the ocean, abducting her followers and, on occasion, random people and transporting them to the mystical underwater realm to test their worth. If she decides they are worthy, she is claimed to pass on secret teachings and hidden information to the individual before returning them to shore safely. They become more spiritually enlightened, fortunate, or even physically transformed than they were before being taken. If she thinks them worthless, they are thought to be destroyed and drowned.
Of course, this is all an allegory for the kundalini shakti power and the consequences of being uninitiated or spiritually unprepared.
Sekhmet taught and guided her disciples how to spiritually advance and use their kundalini serpent for magick and healing. She was the main goddess that taught how to use the kundalini power to heal people. Which is why her temples were temples of medicine. This knowledge made her priests very skilled healers.
In Necrominon - Egyptian Sethanic Magick by Michael W. Ford, the author writes, “Sekhmet, like Isis, was also a powerful goddess of magic, having a specific knowledge of sorcery and that of healing as well.” Like Isis, Sekhmet was known as "Werethekau" or "Great of Magic."
This emphasizes Sekhmet's association with spiritual power, particularly the serpent force of transformative energy, and she taught her followers to harness this energy for healing and spiritual growth, making her temples vital hubs of esoteric knowledge.
The serpent energy in general was a huge central theme in primarily all traditional African religions, i.e., snakes/serpents residing in the deep waters, but the Mami Wata worship and tradition represents Sekhmet's sacred cult, likened to Shaktism in the east.
The Mami Wata tradition, particularly among the Igbo, Ewe, and Yoruba, involved serpent exercises and dances that invoke the kundalini energy, connected to the all divine. Devotees, dressed in red and white (symbolizing power and purity and are alchemical colors), mimic the fluidity of water and serpentine motions, entering trance states to channel spiritual power and energy. Other rituals include that of purification and offerings.
Most substantial teachings, however, have been lost, as were many ancient gentile traditions, such as with the Berber people in Northern Africa. They also tied a lot of their sacred rites to Egypt itself, as with many African peoples, but their roots and spiritual traditions were eradicated by Islamists and later with Christianity, to the point where more evidence exists linking South Africa to Ancient Egypt than with many places in North Africa.
Thankfully we have the Temple of Zeus, restoring these traditions and connections for each race and people.
As patron goddess of Africa, Sekhmet is connected to all races on the continent and also had an important role in creating the Black race under our All Father Zeus and is the spiritual mother of the Black race.
Her power date and timing of astrological relevance is when the Sun goes into 15 degrees of Leo—true Lammas in the northern hemisphere—which is the essence of solar/Leo energy, celebrating nature's bounty, spiritually and materially, and the strength in our souls.
For those in the southern hemisphere and in Africa, this time marks Imbolc, late winter. Imbolc is a fire holiday that still connects to the solar spark of life, awakening.
The lion, a symbol of her strength and ferocity, reflects her power and fierceness. The tarot card, the "Strength card," connects with this.
This year the Sun is at 15 degrees. Leo falls on August 8th. So any Zevist can honor her if they wish to do so on that day.
May Sekhmet restore every African Zevist and every Black Zevist to greatness.
Thanks to TG Karnonnos and Ayleth for image of Great Sekhmet*
Hail Zeus/Amun
Hail Sekhmet
——————————————-
Sources:
Mami Wata: Africa's Ancient God/dess Unveiled Vol. I, Book by Awono Mama Zogbé
Uraeus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uraeus
The Mami Wata Healers Society Templde of Mawu
www.mamiwata.com
