The world’s oldest large-scale brewery has been unearthed in the southern Egyptian city of Sohag. I’m not a beer drinker, but I’ve always been fond of mythology and became curious about Egyptian beer deities. There’s not much information about the goddess of brewing, Tjenenet. But there’s a great story about beer. During the Destruction of Mankind, Ra unleashes the lioness warrior goddess Sekmet on humans, who goes on a killing spree ripping apart and drinking the blood of everyone in her path. To stop her before there is no one left to worship them, Sekmet is tricked into drinking beer dyed red, believing it to be blood. She gets drunk, passes out, and wakens as Hathor, the gentle cow goddess. The Tekh Festival, or Feast of Drunkenness, was held in her honor. That reminded me of the bacchanals of Dionysus, and his wild followers, the Maenads, who were said to tear apart men and beasts, devouring them in their wine-drunk rituals.
So, this is my question for you Deadsplinters, who wins in a bar brawl, Sekmet
or the Maenads?
well…much as hollywood likes to disagree….one vs many only ever ends one way
so sucks for sekmet…but its gonna be the maenads
tho im sure she’ll kick arse and take names on the way to the inevitable
anyhoos…a feast of drunkenness sounds good to me about now 🙂
That was pretty much my thinking too. Sekmet is a bad ass but those maenads are a bunch of mean girls. My money’s on them.
Hold up. Sekmet is a goddess. Maenads are just hopped-up addicts. No way a bunch of crackheads beats a goddess.
Depends on how much beer Sekmet drank. If she can get drunk enough to pass out I think she could be drunk enough to be overcome by a group.
i mean.iguess if she has godess powers to just knock everyone the fuck out..she’d win
but in a straight fight….no wai
fighting one on one its pretty damn hard to dodge blows
more than one on one…. you are pretty fucked
(source i used to box…….i also learnt a dude twice your weight will kick your ass if he connects with anything)
some thing something wakes up as a cow, no clue but then I been drinking since 3
Lol, just don’t tear anyone apart.
Words to live by.
I vote for Sekhmet. Also goddess of healing, and a lioness? Purrfect.
Well, if anyone could whup those crazy winos it would probably be Sekmet.
But could Sekhmet turn people to stone, like Medusa? The Better Half and I can do that to each other. In normal times when we’d have people over Better Half would get on this stemwinder “and the weird thing is Mattie—” [We’d make eye contact] “never mind, does anyone need a drink?” “I know. Better Half has this habit of—” [we’d make eye contact] “never mind. Does anyone need a drink?”
Lol, I’d love to have that as my super power. As long as it could be reversed. There are days I’d be left in a town full of statuary.
I always thought the Maenads sounded like the most fun women could have in ancient Greece.
Drinking, partying, tearing men limb from limb. Sounds like a fantastic fucking time to me.
I agree, and I sort of feel a rampage coming on. I need to break out the wine!
Okay let’s get drunk and have a good old fashioned fun time.
Couple of ground rules though.
We’re only tearing people limb from limb who meet a few sets of conditions, including but not limited to:
anti-maskers
anti-vaxxers
white supremacists
people who get ridiculously mad at retail or restaurant workers and have hissy fits and scream at them
I can work with that! Rolling up my sleeves and sharpening my nails.
Oh friend, no. We’re using sharp pointy tools.
I’m not ruining a manicure destroying fools.
First we get manicures and pedicures. Then we get the alcohol. Then we have the drunken revelries.
And then we grab the sharp pointy tools and get to the rending and shredding.
It’s totally lady bonding times and then happy massacre-ing. Maybe our periods will even sync up. Only time will tell!
That sounds absolutely wonderful. I love the idea of a pre murder spree mani pedi, lol.
It’s important to support lady/theydy entrepreneurs, naturally.
at first I was thinking the Maenads, since Sekmet is defeated with alcohol, and alcohol just gets the Maenads started.
But then, as others have mentioned, Sekmet being a goddess, she kinda outclasses a bunch of drunken humans. That’s kinda like a who would win: an M1 Abrams tank with unlimited ammo/fuel, or a 100 kids on bikes with nerf guns and whiffle-ball bats…
She is a goddess but the maenads aren’t merely drunk humans. They are in the throes of a divine Dionysian madness. There’s a bit of the supernatural in their revels. One on one they wouldn’t stand a chance against the Egyptian but as a group, maybe.
eh, point taken. I guess we can upgrade the kids to pretty-fit adults, and give them crowbars and 9mm handguns…
I just feel like there are “tiers”, and typical humans are on like floor one of a sky scraper, a few percent of humans that are just naturally gifted or really well trained are on like floors 3-5 or something, and then there are some exceptional individuals that may be up on the 10th floor. Then you’ve got mythological heroes, who are probably from floors 10-30 or so. Maybe even 50-100 for those with divine lineage. And we can’t build skyscrapers big enough to house the gods/goddesses…
If nothing else it would be a fun, athough gory, spectacle!