Talk:Sekhmet

In popular culture

• Death metal band Nile referenced Sekhmet in the title track of their album "Ithyphallic", and in "The Eye Of Ra" on their album Those Whom the Gods Detest.
• Death metal band Behemoth referenced Sekhmet in the song "Christgrinding Avenue" on their album The Apostasy.
• Sekhmet is one of the evil female trinity of demigod vampires in author Kevin Given's "Last Rites: The Return of Sebastian Vasilis" which is the first novel in the "Karl Vincent: Vampire Hunter" series the other two being the Hebrew Lilith and the Hindu Kali. She is also seen in the same author's comic book "Karl Vincent: Vampire Hunter" issues 1-6 which adapts the novel. She will be played by actress Jasmine Yampierre in the film version from Crisp Film Works.
• Sekhmet is used in The 39 Clues book Beyond the Grave and is the reason why the characters travel to Cairo.
• Sekhmet is also featured in The Red Pyramid written by Rick Riordan as a minor antagonist.
• Sekhmet is the subject of "Lionheart" a song about the goddess by the symphonic power metal band, Amberian Dawn from their The Clouds of Northland Thunder album.
• Sekhmet is the focus of "Resurrection", an episode of Stargate SG-1. The plot centers around a young girl named Anna who was created by a German doctor, who is the son of a Nazi. Sam, Daniel and Teal'c find artifacts belonging to the Goa'uld Sekhmet in the doctor's compound and realize that Anna was cloned using genetic material from the original Sekhmet, who was the executioner of Ra, the villain from the original film. A (possibly different) Sekhmet is also featured in the Stargate SG-1 game Stargate SG-1 Unleashed.
• In Tutenstein, an animated TV series about ancient Egypt, Sekhmet is featured in one of the episodes. She goes on a rampage in the museum and the building site to make people build a pyramid for Tut.
• The space vessel "Sekhmet" is a level in the video game Jet Force Gemini, a third person shooter developed by Rare in 1999.
• Sekhmet is also the name of an alien Aragami in the PlayStation Portable game, God Eater.
• In the video game Skullgirls, Sekhmet is the name of the bloodthirsty cat-like skeleton parasite bonded to the Egypt themed character Eliza.
• In the BBC TV series Sherlock episode "The Great Game", John Watson believes a cat named Sekhmet is responsible for the death of her owner.
• Sekhmet is the main character in Author S.K. Whiteside's World of the Guardians book series. Set in modern-day New Orleans, Sekhmet goes by the name of Syn.
• Sekhmet appears in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio drama, The Bride of Peladon. She is an Osiran.
• Temple of Goddess Spirituality in Southern Nevada that is dedicated to the Goddess Sekhmet.
• The subject of Margaret Atwood's poem titled "Sekhmet, the Lion-headed Goddess of War."
• In the comic The Wicked + The Divine, Sekhmet (spelled Sakhmet) is one of twelve gods who reincarnate every 90 years only to die within two years. In the current incarnation, she is a popstar modelled on Rihanna.
• In Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody series of books, Sekhmet is the name of one of the Emersons' cats.
• Sekhmet appears in the comic Beasts of Burden: The Unfamiliar after being summoned by a gathering of witches and familiars.
• Sekhmet appears in the 1997 cartoon series Mummies Alive! in "The Curse of Sekhmet" (Episode 11). After Scarab fell sick, he summoned Sekhmet to cure him. Instead, she unleashes havoc with the Plagues of Egypt and places a curse on the city, causing Presley to turn into a frog. Unlike in her classic depiction as a lion-headed female, she appears a regular human and can turn into an anthropomorphic vulture instead.
• Sekhmet is one of the creatures in the mobile game "Deck Heroes", where she is portrayed as a man with long hair.
• Sekhmet is one of three old-world goddesses providing guidance to the titular heroine in the young-adult novella Fearless Inanna, by author & illustrator Jonathan Schork (2nd edition, SM-ARC, inc., 2016).
• Sekhmet is an ancient, evil vampire featured in the M/M paranormal romance book A Light in the Darkness: Things That Go Bump. She is the goddess of death and destruction infamous for her ability to create plague and cruelty.
• Sekhmet appears in the real-time strategy game Age of Mythology as a minor god for the Egyptians, and can be worshipped to increase the power of players' siege units.
• Miss Sekhmet is a werelioness in the Custard Protocol books by Gail Carriger.

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