Introduction
Serqet is the scorpion goddess of healing, invoked especially against venomous stings and bites, and one of the four protective goddesses assigned to guard the canopic jars of the deceased's internal organs.
Family
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Healer and Guardian
Serqet's priests were credited with genuine practical skill in treating scorpion stings and snakebites, giving her cult real medical as well as religious significance. In her funerary role, she guarded Qebehsenuef's canopic jar (containing the intestines), completing the protective quartet with Isis, Nephthys, and Neith.
Ancient Egyptian religion spanned three millennia and many regional cult centers, so parentage, roles and even gender pairings for a given deity often differ between the Heliopolitan, Hermopolitan, Memphite and Theban theological systems; the account above follows the most widely attested classical version.