Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20170430155022/@comment-25936766-20170430224436

PisceanWaterbender wrote: I think I'll do Sekhmet...lion goddess known for her bloodlust and willingness to kill the enemies of Ra, and turned into a cow when she gorged on too much beer dyed red instead of blood. ................Piscean. I'm (not) sorry to tell you this, but....you have it backwards.

First of all, she didn't turn into a cow. She was a cow. Better said, she was Hathor, Goddess of Fertility, Motherhood, among other things, who was commonly depicted as a cow.

The tale you're mentinoning is the Book of the Heavenly Cow. Humans were plotting against Ra while he was ruling, and so he sent Hathor, as the lion-faced War Goddess Sekhmet, to destroy them. So she did. She did so much, in fact, that she became bloodthirsty and massacred far more than necesary because she could, plain and simple, not be stopped.

When things got out of control, Ra decided to end the slaughter by pouring blood-colored beer on the ground, which Sekhmet proceeded to drink thinking it was actual blood. Afterwards, she got drunk, and returned to her gentle persona, Hathor.