Serqet
Egyptian · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Scorpion goddess of venom-cures and funerary protection.
Domains
- venom healing
- funerary protection
Powers
- Healing scorpion stings and snakebite venom
- Protecting the canopic guardian Qebehsenuef (intestines)
- Causing the throat to breathe
Epithets
- 𓋴𓂋𓈎𓏏𓆙 'She who causes the throat to breathe' — scorpion-goddess of venom-cure (full form of her name)Pyramid Texts, Utterance 1375 (primary)
- nbt ꜥnḫ Lady of LifeLeitz, Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, s.v. Serqet (secondary)
Relations
- ally: NeithScorpion funerary-protector goddess; with Neith forms one of the two guardian pairs of the canopic/sarcophagus quartet. No genealogy attested.Pyramid Texts and canopic/sarcophagus protection formulae pairing the four tutelary goddesses Isis, Nephthys, Neith and Serqet (primary)
Sources
- existence: Pyramid Texts, Utterance 1375 (primary)