Ta-Bitjet
Egyptian · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Ta-Bitjet exists inside a spell. Egyptian healing magic works by precedent: something happened once in the world of the gods, and the practitioner recites it so that the same remedy applies now. Her precedent is her wedding night — Horus's consummation, and the blood from it — which the incantations name as the substance that stops venom working. That is the whole of her attestation. She is a scorpion goddess invoked against scorpions, which is the standard Egyptian arrangement, and Serqet, already in this registry, is the same idea with a longer career.
Domains
- healing
Relations
- consort of: HorusNamed as Horus's consort in the magical literature; the marriage exists chiefly to supply the spell with its efficacious substance.Reference treatment of Ta-Bitjet as a consort of Horus. (secondary)
Sources
- Ta-Bitjet is an Egyptian protective scorpion goddess, consort of Horus, whose blood is named in the anti-venom spells as a cure for poison.: Reference treatments of Ta-Bitjet and of Egyptian anti-venom magic. (secondary)