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Egyptian Vampiric Myth of the Goddess Sekhmet

There was a time in ancient Egypt where humans entered into a conspiracy to overthrow the gods. They blasphemed against Ra (king of Gods and men) and heretical priests and magicians plotted ways to turn against the Gods for their destruction, using those very powers that the Gods had given to mankind that they might flourish and grow great upon the earth.

Ra (hearing of this plan) called to meet with Him the most ancient and potent Gods, those who had been with Him in the primeval waters before the time when with His eye (the sun) He had made life. The Gods counseled together and it was decided that Sekhmet (the force against which no other force avails) should manifest on the earth and quell the rebellion. Sekhmet would manifest and punish all those who had held in their minds evil images and imagined wicked plots.

Then Sekhmet walked among men and destroyed them and drank their blood. Night after night Sekhmet waded in blood, slaughtering humans, tearing and rending their bodies, and drinking their blood. The other Gods decided that the slaughter was enough and should stop but they could find no way to stop Sekhmet who was drunk on human blood.

As the carnage went on, the Gods recognized that Sekhmet (her rage sustained by intoxication) would relentlessly proceed with the killing until the last human life had been extinguished. Then Ra had brought to him from Elephantine certain plants which have been said to be of the solanaceae family and which can be brewed as powerful mind-altering drugs. Those plants, and possibly also opium or hemp, were sent to the God Sekti at heliopolis. Sekti added these drugs to a mixture of beer and also human blood, until 7,000 great jugs of the substance had been made. The jars were taken to a place were Sekhmet would pass and there were poured out onto the ground, flooding the fields for a great distance. When Sekhmet came to these fields and perceived what she thought to be blood, she rejoiced and drank all of the liquid. Then "Her heart was filled with joy". Her mind was changed, and she thought no more of destroying mankind.

After that, Ra addressed Sekhmet as the One who comes in peace, praising the beauty and charm of the Goddess.

This myth was found on the walls of the tomb of Seti. It has recently come to my attention that this myth is supposed to be written in the book "The Goddess Sekhmet, Psycho - Spiritual Exercises of the Fifth Way" by Robert Masters in 1991 but I have yet to find a copy of this book.

Vlad Tsepesh aka Dracula

Vlad Dracul or Vlad the Impaler was the real life prince that Bram Stoker based his famous Count Dracula on.

Dracula was born in Transylvania in 1431 in the town of Sighisoara, or Schassburg.

His father Vlad Dracul was a member of The Order of the Dragon which meant an oath to fight the Turks forever.

The name Dracul means dragon (or devil to his enemies) and became his fathers name because he used the dragon symbol on his coins.

At the age of 13 Dracula was captured by the Turks who "taught" him to torture and impale people, but it wasn't until his reign of Wallachia from 1456 to 1462 that he actually got a chance to use his knowledge. It is also from this time that most of the stories about him happened.

Once Dracula saw a man on the street with a dirty and ragged shirt so he asked the man if he had a wife, the man said yes. He saw that she was healthy and had plenty of flax so believed her to be lazy. He had both her hands cut off and had her body impaled. He then procured a new wife for the man and then showed her what happened to her lazy predecessor as a warning. The new wife was definitely not lazy.

One day he prepared a huge banquet for all of the homeless in his territory and once everyone was enjoying the feast he burned the building to the ground. This was how he took care of the problem of all of the homeless.

Dracula's other name Tsepesh (or Tepes) means impaler. He was named this because of his love for impalement as a way of punishing and executing his enemies. Impalement was a particularly gruesome form of execution. It was accomplished by pulling the victims by horse onto stakes which had been sharpened at the end and oiled, so as NOT to cause immediate death.

Unfaithful wives and promiscuous women were punished by cutting off their sex organs, skinning them alive and exposing them in public with their skin hanging from a nearby pole.

He especially enjoyed mass executions where several victims were impaled at once and their stakes hoisted upright. As they hung suspended above the ground the weight of their bodies would slowly drag them down further on the stake, causing the sharpened end of the stake to pierce their internal organs.

In order to better enjoy the mass executions he would routinely ordered a banquet table set up in front of his victims and he would enjoy a leisurely supper amid the pitiful sights and sounds of the dying.

The actual castle is in the northern Wallachian town of Tirgoviste.

Vlad Dracula died in 1476. Some stories say he died in battle because he had disguised himself as a Turk. As victory was near he got excited and ran to the top of a hill to see it all but was mistaken for a Turk and killed by his own men.

His tomb was opened in 1931 but it was empty except for a badly deteriorated skeleton, a golden crown, a necklace with a serpent motif and fragments of a red silk garment, with a ring sewn on.

Unfortunately all these things have been stolen from the History Museum of Bucharest, where they were deposited.

There has never been any thing to link him to vampires, he never drank blood. The stories of him being a vampire come solely from Stokers vivid imagination.