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 medicine.

Using a mixture of folklore, magick, and science her priesthood was dedicated to healing venomous bites. It was believed that she had power over all snakes, reptiles, and poisonous animals.

Yet to many she still remains a remarkable and fascinating enigma.

She is also the scorpion Goddess most often shown as a beautiful woman with a scorpion poised upon her head. She was the ancient Egyptian Goddess of Magick.

She protected the people, mostly innocent children and women in childbirth and healed them from poisonous bites and stings. But she punished the wicked with the burning wrath of her scorpion’s sting or the snake’s venom which caused breathlessness and death.

As a protective Goddess she sent seven of her Scorpions to protect Isis from the evil god Set.

She is also depicted as the mother or daughter of the Sun God Ra, thus her wrath was also thought to be the burning noonday sun. In some texts she is depicted as the wife of Horus and the one who called to Isis for the royal baroque to stop, thus forcing the other gods to help bring Horus back to life.

Each night she also joined Ra’s solar journeys through the underworld and helped protect the baroque from the attack of the snake demon Apep. Just as she could kill, she was thought to give breath to the justified dead, helping them be reborn in the afterlife.

She is also known as “She who lets throats Breathe.”

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