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 There is no ancient Egyptian myth that ties Sekhmet to vampiric or ""ghoul"" legends.  That is New Age malarkey at best.  The myth, The Destruction of Mankind, is about Hathor being commissioned by Ra to destroy mankind when they no longer cared for him.  She embarks upon a full-scale slaughter of men, which alarms Ra, who tells her to stop.  She refuses, saying ""I have prevailed over men, and it has done my heart good.  I shall continue to prevail over them.""  It was at this point Hathor then mutates into Sekhmet, whose name means, ""She who prevails."" To stop her, the gods devise a scheme to tinge beer with red ochre so she will think it blood of slaughtered men and drink it (this some from the observation in the wild that lions and lionesses often have bloody maws when feeding).  When she sees the red beer poured out 12 hands deep upon a field, she drinks it, becomes drunk and falls asleep, thus stopping the slaughter of mankind. She later awakes, still drunk, as Hathor and returns to the halls of the gods, where she is welcomed in as ""sweet and gentle Hathor.""   "