Scorpion goddess

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)