Sekhmet is fooled and drunk

The gods trembled for humanity.
For themselves, it would be a tragedy.
Their humans' sacrifices, suffice it to say,
allowed them to exist in every way.
That was their immortal secret sworn,
until the fearsome feline goddess was born.

Her apparition, a lioness.
Her will is to destroy, this capable huntress.
Human blood she drinks to nourish.
Her innate, unstoppable focus will flourish
with every soul stalked and eaten.
All the Egyptian gods in submission, beaten.

The people caught wind of her plan
to rule the heavens by beginning on land.
Retaliation hatched with a spider translator
for it knew the scarab would be no protector.
Since the gods told it no information of waste,
it revealed this plan to the people post-haste:

(Time ticked, the lioness' claws rapped on petrified wood
waiting to annihilate humanity like nothing else could.)

Beer was brewed in batches of thousands,
using the yeast in bread kneaded by woman's hands.
Moment by moment, excitement and dread
motivated men to dye the beer red.
This liquid would be used in a mischievous ploy
to quench the goddess' thirst with a tempting decoy.

The feline goddess' offering seeped
into many fields of crops, sinking deep.
She lapped up every last drop in Cairo's heat.
The gods' plan carried out by man, complete!

The goddess was intoxicated and sleepy
causing the people to cheer til they became weepy
because she needed a thousand lifetimes' rest
failing to pass humanity's clever test.

And so, everyone would be safe
from revered pharaoh to rejected waif
because we are the ultimate tricksters
using knowledge passed from our ancestors.
Maybe it is we who are so easily fooled...
but always that hot fear is easily cooled
when we keep our foes, real or imagined, at bay
by sacrificing everything to save our way.