Scorpion goddess

A scorpion goddess is a goddess associated with a scorpion theme.

Examples include:

  • Chelamma, a Hindu goddess of the Southern Karnataka region of India
  • Hedetet, an Egyptian scorpion goddess
  • Išḫara, an Eblaite, Hurrian, Mesopotamian, and Ugaritic goddess associated with love, oaths, illness, and the underworld, represented by a scorpion symbol on kudurru[1]
  • Isis, an Egyptian mother goddess who sometimes appeared as a scorpion and was accompanied and guarded by seven minor scorpion deities on her travels
  • Lisin, also known as Negun, a Sumerian goddess identified with the star α Scorpionis, the "heart of Scorpion"
  • Malinalxochitl, the Aztec goddess of snakes, scorpions, and insects of the desert
  • Ningirima, a Mesopotamian goddess associated with incantations and the Scorpion star
  • Serket, the Egyptian goddess of healing venomous stings and bites, originally the deification of the scorpion
  • Ta-Bitjet, an Egyptian scorpion goddess with antivenomous secretions, consort to Horus

See also

References

  1. ^ Archi, Alfonso (2020). "Išḫara and Aštar at Ebla: Some Definitions". The Third Millennium. BRILL. doi:10.1163/9789004418080_002.