She carried an ankh sign on her left hand and a long-stemmed lotus flower on her right hand. In Egyptian art, she was depicted as a woman with the head of a lioness, and sometimes her skin would be painted green just as Osiris was. But whenever Hathor was angry, she would take the form of Sekhmet, the Bloodthirsty, a frightening lioness who fed on the blood and fear of her enemies. She took several different forms, most of them very wholesome and protective of the people of Egypt.
But Hathor, goddess of love and music, had a far bigger following in ancient times. The most well-known is of course Isis, the Great Sorceress and mother of all gods. The Egyptian pantheon possessed a great number of powerful goddesses. 760-332 BCE, via the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Who Was the Egyptian Goddess Sekhmet? Sekhmet and Ptah, c.
