Serket

In the Egyptian Mythology, Serket (Srq.t) (or Selkis (Greek name) or Serquet ), That which makes breathe (throats), is the goddess not scorpion (erroneous interpretation coming from the emblem of the goddess - a scorpion since the New-Empire), but, as its name indicates it, governing breathing, taking care on the rebirth and the new breath of life of the late ones.

It is related to the worship of the fertility because it passed to be one of the protective goddesses of the four sources of the the Nile. It is also Dame of the Life because, with the birth of the king-god, it helps the queen to put at the world the divine child; this epithet is also given to him because it protects from venom from the scorpions, snakes and other animals dangerous. Selkis is Maîtresse puncture and Dame of the bonds .

Probably originating in the 6th names Low-Egypt, its worship is attested in the Delta and, in High-Egypt, with Edfou, where it appears among the divinities resident. In the beginning, Selkis has neither family, nor Parèdre; she is attested, only, as of. Sometimes to the Average Empire, it carries the title of Fille of Re and, with the Low Time, it is also indicated like Épouse of Horus , in particular with Edfou.

She was initially attached to the underground world then in the world of dead where she was charged to supervise the snake Apopis, enemy of Re.

But one generally sees it at the sides of Isis and Nephthys proceeding to the funerary rites of Osiris, protecting the internal organs from the king.

One represents it like a woman with on the head a watery insect, the nèpe, called water scorpion; in the form of scorpion with head of woman; or spreading broad wings to protect deaths.

Represented on a Vase canope beside the genius with head of falcon, Kébehsénouf, it takes care more particularly on the vase containing the intestines of the late one.

It had in addition capacities healers exerted via its priests charmers of Selkis who are at the same time doctors and magicians. It had the capacity to transmit the knowledge of medicine to the latter.

Howard Carter found a statuette of the goddess in the tomb of Toutânkhamon. She also appears with the one of the angles of the alabaster trunk which contained the internal organs of the Pharaon like on the trunk with canopes; the female statues of Isis, Nephthys, Neith and 90 height cm Serket are out of plated gold wood (visible with the Egyptian Musée of Cairo).

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