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
- 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
- Snake goddess (set index article)
References
- Archi, Alfonso (2020). "Išḫara and Aštar at Ebla: Some Definitions". The Third Millennium. BRILL. doi:10.1163/9789004418080_002.
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