ab-sekhem:

“If I were to categorize Sekhmet in a mythic sense, “she” appears to have two polarities. In Egyptian mythology, Sekhmet represents the warrior as slayer in the negative polarity, the goddess of plagues and pestilence and all sorts of nasty stuff (directed at the enemies of Egypt in days gone by, of course). Yet, in the positive polarity, this leonine female is the warrior as healer—an archetypal force that expresses fierce compassion—a quality that comes through Sekhmet’s willingness to stand with us while we embodied mortals are in the fires of transformation. She offers this so that we may become who and what our destiny holds out to us…”

-Dr. Hank Wesselman, Forward to Sekhmet: Transformation in the Belly of the Goddess by Nicki Scully