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Sekhmet illustrates the duality of virtue and evil. In the legend, an angry God Ra transforms his daughter Hathor into the ferocious Sekhmet. He sends her to punish humans for conspiring against him. Woman-lioness almost destroys all of humanity. Her name is from the word ‘sekhem,’ meaning ‘power.

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Possibly the earliest known image of the Virgin Mary with Jesus, Circa 150 CE. Painted on the walls of the Catacombs of Priscilla, located underneath Rome’s Via Salaria in what used to be a quarry. Early Christians would meet in the catacombs to bury their dead and pray at the tombs of the martyrs

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Sekhmet illustrates the duality of virtue and evil. In the legend, an angry God Ra transforms his daughter Hathor into the ferocious Sekhmet. He sends her to punish humans for conspiring against him. Woman-lioness almost destroys all of humanity. Her name is from the word ‘sekhem,’ meaning ‘power.	52
Possibly the earliest known image of the Virgin Mary with Jesus, Circa 150 CE. Painted on the walls of the Catacombs of Priscilla, located underneath Rome’s Via Salaria in what used to be a quarry. Early Christians would meet in the catacombs to bury their dead and pray at the tombs of the martyrs	1