Editing Sekhmet (section)

==Comparative scholarship==
In the 1960s it has been argued that the [[Hinduism|Hindu]] goddess [[Kali|Kālī]], who is first attested in the 7th century CE, shares some characteristics with some ancient Near Eastern goddesses, such as wearing a necklace of heads and a belt of severed hands like [[Anat]], and drinking blood like the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet and that therefore that her character might have been influenced by them.{{sfn|Pope|Röllig|1965|page=239}} A myth describes how Kali became ecstatic with the joy of battle and slaughter while killing demons, and refused to stop until she was pacified by her consort, [[Shiva]], who threw himself under her feet.{{sfn|Pope|1977|pages=608}} [[Marvin H. Pope]] wrote in 1977 that this myth exhibits parallels to the Egyptian myth in which Sekhmet was sent by Ra to destroy the humans plotting against him only to become so captured by her blood-lust that she would not stop despite Ra himself becoming distressed and wishing an end to the killing, only to be stopped by a ruse whereby a plain was flooded with beer which had been dyed red, which Sekhmet mistook for blood and drank until she became too inebriated to continue killing, thus saving humanity from destruction.{{sfn|Pope|1977|pages=607-608}}