In Egyptian mythology, Menhit ("she who massacres"; also Menchit) was a lion-goddess of war. Like most Egyptian war-deities, Mekhit was believed to ride ahead of the Egyptian armies and cut down the warriors of their enemies with fiery arrows. She was married to Chnum, with whom she was the mother of Hike. Egyptian mythology (or Egyptian religion) is the name for the succession of beliefs held by the people of Egypt until the coming of Christianity and Islam. ... An atrocity (from the Latin atrox, atrocious, from Latin ater = matte black (as distinct from niger = shiny black)) is a term used to describe crimes ranging from an act committed against a single person to one committed against a population or ethnic group. ... Binomial name Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758) The Lion (Panthera leo) is a mammal of the family Felidae. ... A goddess is a female deity in contrast with a male deity known as a god. A great many cultures have goddesses, sometimes alone, but more often as part of a larger pantheon that includes both of the conventional genders and in some cases even hermaphroditic (or gender neutral) deities. ... War is conflict, between relatively large groups of people, which involves physical force inflicted by the use of weapons. ... In Egyptian mythology, Chnum was the god of the Nile River delta, and the creator of human children, whom he makes from clay and places in their mothers uteruses. ... Perhaps you were thinking of hiking. ...