The Stone Warriors to liquefy the ground, thus sinking Ren and Alex. Todtman is hit in the head by a chunk of rock and also encased in rock. When the Walker comes to feed on the souls of them, the mummy cat Pai tries to save them, in vain. After Pai is crushed, the cat goddess Bastet appears. After the Walker challenges the goddess, her sister goddess, or Sekhmet appears. She is the Destroyer, or the goddess of violence. The new goddess burns up the Walker and pulverizes the body against the wall of the pit. This creates a hole in the wall,
Echoes of the Goddess Echoes of the Goddess Echoes of the Goddess: Tales of Terror and Wonder From the End of Time is a collection of fantasy short stories by American writer Darrell Schweitzer, a prequel to his novel "The Shattered Goddess" (1983). The book is illustrated with a cover and frontispiece by Stephen Fabian. It was first published as a trade paperback by Wildside Press in February 2013. The collection consists of a cycle of eleven stories originally published from 1982-1991 in various fantasy and science fiction magazines, together with a prologue original to the collection. Some of the stories were revised for