Scorpion goddess
A scorpion goddess is a goddess associated with a scorpion theme.
Examples include:
- Chelamma, Hindu goddess of the Southern Karnataka region of India
- Hedetet, Egyptian scorpion goddess
- Išḫara, Eblaite, Mesopotamian, Hurrian and Ugaritic goddess associated with love, oaths, illness and the underworld, represented by a scorpion symbol on kudurru[1]
- Isis, Egyptian queen 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, was a Sumerian goddess identified with the star α Scorpionis, the "heart of Scorpion"
- Malinalxochitl, Aztec goddess of snakes, scorpions and insects
- Ningirima, Mesopotamian goddess of incantations, was associated with the scorpion star
- Serket, patron goddess of the Pharaohs and deification of the scorpion
- Ta-Bitjet, Egyptian goddess with antivenomous secretions, consort to Horus
See also
[edit]- Snake goddess (set index article)
References
[edit]- ^ Archi, Alfonso (2020). "Išḫara and Aštar at Ebla: Some Definitions". The Third Millennium. BRILL. doi:10.1163/9789004418080_002.
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