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Serket / ˈ s ɜːr ˌ k ɛ t / (Ancient Egyptian: srqt) is the goddess of healing venomous stings and bites in Egyptian mythology, originally the deification of the scorpion. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Part of a series on
The scorpion fetish, which underlies the name of Scorpion II, is generally linked to the later-introduced goddess Selket, but Egyptologists and linguists such as L.D. Morenz, H. Beinlich, Toby Wilkinson and Jan Assmann have pointed out that the goddess was introduced no earlier than the late Old Kingdom period. In this view, the scorpion fetish ...
Hededet or Hedjedjet (ḥdd.t) is a scorpion goddess of the ancient Egyptian religion. She resembles Serket in many ways, but was in later periods merged into Isis. She was depicted with the head of a scorpion, nursing a baby. [2] She is mentioned in the Book of the Dead.
Owuo, Akan God of Death and Destruction, and the Personification of death. Name means death in the Akan language. Name means death in the Akan language. Asase Yaa , one half of an Akan Goddess of the barren places on Earth, Truth and is Mother of the Dead
Aker – earth and underworld god; Ȧmi-Pe – A lion god; Apedemak – depicted as a figure with a male human torso and a lion head; Bast – Lioness goddess of fertility and protection against disease. Hert-ketit-s; Ḥuntheth – A lioness goddess; Ipy (goddess) – head and feet of a lion, body of a hippo, arms of a human
Greek death goddesses (3 C, 8 P) L. Life-death-rebirth goddesses (5 C, 11 P) P. Persephone (7 C, 20 P) U. Underworld goddesses (6 C, 55 P) Pages in category "Death ...
She was depicted as a goddess holding an infant, with a distinguishing headdress shaped like a sistrum - an Ancient Egyptian musical instrument. [1] He sometimes appeared as a consort to the scorpion goddess Serket, [4] who protected the deceased King and was often evoked to cure poison and scorpion stings. [1]
On his sarcophagus were only inscribed the titles scorpion charmer and son of Selket. [4] He was buried in his tomb discovered at Heliopolis in 1931–32. There was found his inscribed sarcophagus which is now on display in Norfolk, Virginia at the Chrysler Museum. [7] There are shabtis known, perhaps belonging to him. [8]