Serket

Offerings

• Preserved scorpions
• Water
• Bread
• Vegetables
• Fruits
• Incense: perhaps especially sandalwood, ginger, or frankincense (UPG?)

Epithets

• The one who makes the throat breathe
• The lady of the height of the sky
• Who comes out of Nun, Who is over Nun
• The ruler in the vastness of the earth
• The lady of the underworld
• The lady of the house of life
• The lady of the library
• The lady of the house of embalming
• The lady of the west
• The lady of the necropolis
• The lady of the snake
• The lady of life
• The lady of the words
• The lady of magic
• The lady of ma’at
• Who is over the strong one
• The feminine goddess
• The lady of the fetter, The lady of the magic fetter/bondage
• The magnificent cobra
• The cobra at the crown of Ra
• The eye of Ra
• Who gives clothing to the gods
• The one dressed in white cloth
• Who distributes the poison in every limb of one who comes as an enemy
• Who keeps the people and gods alive
• Who allows breathing after the mischief
• Who emerges from Ra
• The divine mother
• The daughter of Ra
• Who loves her husband
• The divine wife
• The lady of love
• The one with great reputation
• The magnificent and powerful one
• The one with great poison
• The lady of biting
• The lady of the gods, The lady of all the gods
• The cobra at the crown of Ra
• Who clothed the one who is on the bier with her work
• Who wraps the divine body

Sources

• Celebrating the Egyptian Gods by Sharon LaBorde
• The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt by Richard H. Wilkinson
• Seshkemet
• Mekhatsenu's translation of LAGG

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