The Scorpion Goddess
As one of the four funerary Goddesses in the Book of the Dead, Selket aided Isis, Nephthys, and Neith in guarding the canopic jars of Osiris. Ancient pyramid texts claim that she was the mother of Nehebkau, a snake God who protected the pharaoh from snakebites. Her Priests and Priestesses were known to be doctors and magicians of ancient Egyptian […]