Sepa
Egyptian · deity · old kingdom · deity
Sepa is a centipede, and the logic is the same as Pazuzu's in Mesopotamia: the thing that frightens you is set against the thing you are afraid of. Egypt's genuine daily hazards were snakes and scorpions, and a centipede is a fast-moving many-legged predator that eats what crawls — so it gets authority over venomous animals and is asked to keep them away. He is also associated with the dead, on the reasonable grounds that centipedes are found where bodies are.
Domains
- protection
Sources
- Reference treatment of Sepa, his centipede form and his protective function.