In the ancient Egyptian pantheon, who was Serket?

griffinj

"'She who causes the throat to breath'. An Egyptian scorpion-goddess, and an early a tutelary deity of the Egyptian monarchs. She is one of the goddess who guards the canopic jars containing the viscera of the deceased. From this association she came to be a tutelary goddess of the dead. She is represented as a woman with a scorpion on her head or with a scorpion-shaped headdress, but also with a scorpion body and a human head. Serket was called upon to avert venomous bites and stings." Also known as Selket and Selquet http://www.pantheon.org/articles/s/serket.html Dec 12 03, 1:30 PM

shady shaker

So, if you got on the wrong side of her, you'd be short Serketed? Dec 12 03, 3:15 PM

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