Serket goddess

Character design challenge, my concept for Serket the Goddess Scorpion.

Selket Scorpion Goddess-Photo Fred Maroon

Serket - Goddess of fertility, nature, animals, medicine, magic, and healing venomous stings and bite

Serket is a powerful Egyptian goddess, known for her healing abilities, her protection against venomous creatures, and her striking physical appearance.

Serket (also known as Serqet, Selkis, and Selket) is an Egyptian goddess of protection associated with the scorpion. She was worshipped widely in Lower Egypt as a great Mother Goddess in the Predynastic...

Serket - a scorpion goddess; goddess of fertility, nature, animals, medicine…:

Here’s my take on Serket (called Selket or Selkis by the Greeks), the Egyptian goddess of medicine, and in particular of remedies for the venom of scorpions and snakes. But a more ambiguous interpretation of her role, subject to debate, also gives her the power to command these same animals, so that they attack malicious people. Her name alone can have different interpretations: sometimes it means “she who causes the throat to breathe”, sometimes “she who tightens the throat”; the venom of…