Feast of Shesmu

February 17: Feast of Shesmu | The Festival of Shesmu

Feast of Shesmu

Shesmu is the Egyptian god of execution, slaughter, blood, embalming oil, wine, and perfume. Shesmu was a demonic god. Not a demon in the Christian sense; he was a lesser deity, ranking him as a demon.

Shesmu had the head, fangs, and mane of a lion drenched in blood, and he wore human skulls around his waist. He could form into a man or falcon.

Shezmu did away with bad people, putting their heads through winepresses, draining them of their blood and turning it into wine on the order of Osiris. The bodies and blood of the dead gave sustenance to Unas, Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt and the last ruler of the Fifth dynasty from the Old Kingdom.

Shezmu was associated with the color red, a color feared by Egyptians. As the color of blood, it was the color of death. (It was also the color of the god of chaos, Seth.)

Shezmu followed the commands of The God of The Dead. Though he seemed a fierce underworld deity, he offered protection to the virtuous. Shezmu offered red wine to the dead.

The feast is no longer celebrated, but most ancient Egyptian feasts were religious in nature. Bread, cakes, wine/beer, meat, and fowl would have been consumed, incense burned, and prayers offered to Shesmu.

Shesmu is also known as Shezmu, Schezemu, Schesmu, Shesemu, Shezmou, Shesmou, Sezmu and Sesmu.

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