HEART OF THE SUN

Heart of the Sun: An Anthology in Exaltation of Sekhmet / edited by Candace C. Kant & Anne Key. – iUniverse, c2011.

This collection of essays and poems in honor of Sekhmet is a joy and a delight.  The preface contains impressions and experiences of Sekhmet by Normandi Ellis.   Each author offers a different perspective on Sekhmet through academic research, creative writing, images, and personal accounts.  Contributors include authors who are well-known to FOI members, such as Barbara Hand Clow, Gloria Taylor Brown,  Normandi Ellis, Galina Krasskova, Nicki Scully, and Patricia Monaghan.  But there are also many more less familiar names including Roynan Steres, Lorraine Tartasky, Deborah Holton, Jezibell, Anne Key, Sylvia Brallier, and others.   Many of them are associated with the Temple of Goddess Spirituality Dedicated to Sekhmet, which was established in 1993 in the Mojave Desert by Genevieve Vaughan (who is one of the contributors), and thus express unique and original perspectives and experience of  Sekhmet.  I especially enjoyed the essays about the Temple. This anthology is powerful, surprising, beautiful, and healing, like Sekhmet herself.  It brings together original and valuable work which might otherwise go undiscovered by many of us.   If you find yourself attracted to Sekhmet, this anthology will enlighten you about Sekhmet and perhaps also about yourself.