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Shezmu (alternatively Schesmu and Shesmu) is an ancient Egyptian deity with a contradictory character. He was worshiped from the early Old Kingdom period. [2]He was considered a god of ointments, perfume, and wine.
[34] A hymn to the goddess Raet-Tawy as a form of Hathor at the temple of Medamud describes the Festival of Drunkenness (Tekh Festival) as part of her mythic return to Egypt. [35] Women carry bouquets of flowers, drunken revelers play drums, and people and animals from foreign lands dance for her as she enters the temple's festival booth.
During an annual festival held at the beginning of the year, a festival of intoxication, the Egyptians danced and played music to soothe the wildness of the goddess and drank great quantities of beer and wine ritually to imitate the extreme drunkenness that stopped the wrath of the goddess—when she almost destroyed humanity.
Betsy Morrell Bryan (born 1949) is an American Egyptologist who is leading [when?] a team that is excavating the Precinct of Mut complex in Karnak, at Luxor in Upper Egypt. Until 2022, she was Alexander Badawy Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology, [ 1 ] and Near Eastern Studies Professor at Johns Hopkins University .
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Hathor, Egyptian goddess of love, passion, wine, and drunkenness. Inari, Shinto goddess of sake. Li Bai, Chinese god of wine and sage of poetry. Liber, a Roman god of wine. Liu Ling, Chinese god of wine. One of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove; Mayahuel, Mexican goddess of pulque. Methe, Greek personification of drinking and drunkenness.
Jean Yoyotte, a French Egyptologist, comments that the goddess Sekhmet served an important role as the "mistress of drunkenness" who provides healing qualities, which are meant to cure any illnesses of Amenhotep III. Also, she played an important role in the royal jubilee to "protect the sun-king against the enemies of the sun."
The Beautiful Festival of the Valley depicted in the Tomb of Nakht. The Beautiful Festival of the Valley (Egyptian: hb nfr n jnt; Arabic: عيد الوادي الجميل, romanized: Eid al-Wadi al-Jamil) was an ancient Egyptian festival, celebrated annually in Thebes (now Luxor), during the Middle Kingdom period and later.