Goddess Shesmetet

Goddess Shesmetet was a leonine goddess, probably a  expression of  Sakhmet. Shesmetet gives  birth  to  the  king  matching  to  the Pyramid Texts and with the democratisation of  Egyptian  feeling  becomes  the mother  of  the  deceased  in  funerary papyri. In a spell to be recited on the last day of the year the name of Shesmetet is invoked  as  a  magical  force against monsters  of  slaughter. There  is  a  clue  to the exotic origins of this goddess in her epithet Lady  of  Punt,  i.e.  the  cense region near the coast of modern Eritrea.