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Selket has a minion!

Serket the Telscion

Selket

The

Chibi Experiment #585
Owner: Sekhmet

Age: 9 years, 8 months, 4 days

Born: September 15th, 2016

Adopted: 9 years, 8 months, 4 days ago

Adopted: September 15th, 2016

Statistics

Level: 42
Strength: 40
Defense: 10
Speed: 10
Health: 10
HP: 10/10
Intelligence: 135
Books Read: 97
Food Eaten: 0
Job: Veterinary Technician

"I love the scorpion, yet I know its venomous sting." - Egyptian Proverb

Selket was an important protective and funerary goddess originating in the Predynastic Period. Selket was also a goddess associated with the scorpion, which was a symbol of motherhood in many areas as female scorpions carry their young on their backs.

According to the Book of Two Ways, Selket protects the deceased on the "dangerous winding path" - a reference to moving the mummy to its tomb.

She is depicted as nursing the kings of Egypt in the Pyramid Texts, and one of the protective spells from those texts reads "My mother is Isis, my nurse is Nephthys . . . Neith is behind me, and Selket is before me."

Egypt was a land of snakes and scorpions, so it is only natural that the worship of this goddess spread throughout Egypt. People invoked Selket for her protection against these dangerous creatures, and revered her for her power and protective qualities.

A guardian of coffins and canopic jars, Selket was featured prominently in the Book of the Dead. Selket's enemies would have their breath literally taken away by the effect of her venomous sting, but she also gave the justified dead the "breath of life" in the afterworld.

She was also a guardian of marriage and women in childbirth, and was called "Selket the Great, the Divine Mother." In the form of seven scorpions, Selket was thought to have protected the goddess Isis throughout her pregnancy and the rearing of her son Horus, and thus offer special protection to women and children.

A daughter of Ra, sometimes Selket was thought to be the mother-wife of Horus. Her consort was thought to be Sobek.

Credits

❖ Story by Sekhmet with information from these sources
❖ Background photo from Hasmik Ghazaryan Olson
❖ Profile by Balloon