How was Sekhmet worshiped

To pacify Sekhmet, festivals were celebrated at the end of battle,so that the destruction would come to an end. During an annualfestival held at the beginning of the year, a festival ofintoxication, the Egyptians danced and played music to soothe thewildness of the goddess and drank great quantities of wine rituallyto imitate the extreme drunkenness that stopped the wrath of thegoddess-when she almost destroyed humanity. This may relate toaverting excessive flooding during the inundation at the beginningof each year as well, when the Nile ran blood-red with the siltfrom up-stream and Sekhmet had to swallow the overflow to savehumankind.