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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] Her family life is unknown, but she is sometimes credited as the daughter of Neith and Khnum, making her a sister to Sobek and Apep.
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 ]
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 ...
Dawon – Mount of the goddess Durga; Egyptian lion gods – Lions were a symbol of warfare and most all of these gods were warriors 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.
Isis, an Egyptian mother goddess who sometimes appeared as a scorpion and was accompanied and guarded by seven minor scorpion deities on her travels; Lisin, also known as Negun, a Sumerian goddess identified with the star α Scorpionis, the "heart of Scorpion" Malinalxochitl, the Aztec goddess of snakes, scorpions, and insects of the desert
[5] [6] Especially on a statue now in the Musei Vaticani, Psamtikseneb bears a number of important titles, such as sole friend, leader of the foremost thrones, chief dentist of the pharaoh, scorpion charmer and son of Selket, the latter being the name of the ancient Egyptian scorpion goddess.
Satis – A goddess of Egypt's southern frontier regions [51] [6] Sekhmet – A lioness goddess, both destructive and violent and capable of warding off disease, protector of the Pharaohs who led them in war, the consort of Ptah and one of many forms of the Eye of Ra [52] Serket – A scorpion goddess, invoked for healing and protection [53]
Selket, goddess of protection and health. Her heraldic animal is the scorpion. Sobek, crocodile god of the Nile and the swamps. He evoked and controlled the yearly life-spending Nile inundation. Third group (top to bottom) destroyed. Min, god of potence and fertility. His idol is an erect phallus. He was worshipped since predynastic times.