Serqet

Serqet is the goddess of scorpions and protectors.

Background
Little is known of Serqet's life during Ancient Egypt, but it is known that she attended Osiris's birthday party.

The Red Pyramid
Serqet and Bast briefly engage in battle in Manhattan's Central Park. Serqet appears to defeat Bast, but the cat goddess turns into Muffin and escapes into the Duat. She later engages in combat with Zia Rashid in a museum, who manages to expel Serqet from her host. Serqet, however, was able to reform for reason as yet unknown.

Personality
She is very aggressive and wants to destroy the unworthy. But she is the god of protection and is actually pretty nice. She has very mixed emotions.

Appearance
Serqet is described as having her black hair that is unnaturally thick, like the antennae of a bug, and it is cut in an Egyptian style. She has other insect-like features as well; her skin is pale and glistens as if it is the shell of an insect, her eyes are beady and black, and within her mouth are a set of mandibles. She wears brown robes with golden bracelets and necklaces. She wears a scorpion on her head in lieu of a crown.

Powers and Abilities
In addition to standard godly powers, Serqet has dominion over arachnids, especially scorpions. She has good resistance to fire as shown when she battles Zia. She can conjure a shadowy scorpion tail to fight with. She could become or teleport scorpions as shown when a mass of scorpions goes behind a pillar and come out of the other side as Serqet and when her army of scorpions crawl up her legs and disappear into the folds of her robes.

In Mythology
In Egyptian mythology, Serket (also spelt Selchis, Selket, Selkis, Selkhit, Selkit, Selqet, Serkhet, Serket-hetyt, Serqet and Serquet) is the goddess of healing stings and bites who originally was the deification of the scorpion.[2]

Scorpion stings lead to paralysis and Serket's name describes this, as it means (she who) tightens the throat, however, Serket's name also can be read as meaning (she who) causes the throat to breathe, and so, as well as being seen as stinging the unrighteous, Serket was seen as one who could cure scorpion stings and the effects of other poisons such as snake bites.

In Ancient Egyptian art, Serket was shown as a scorpion (a symbol found on the earliest artifacts of the culture, such as the protodynastic period), or as a woman with a scorpion on her head. Although Serket doesn't appear to have had temples, she had a sizable number of priests in many communities.

The most dangerous species of scorpion resides in North Africa, and its sting may kill, so Serket was considered a highly important goddess, and was sometimes considered by pharaohs to be their patron. Her close association with the early kings implies that she was their protector, two being referred to as the scorpion kings.

As the protector against poisons and snake bites, Serket often was said to protect the deities from Apep, the great snake-demon of evil, sometimes being depicted as the guard when Apep was captured.

As many of the venomous creatures of Egypt could prove fatal, Serket also was considered a protector of the dead, particularly being associated with poisons and fluids causing stiffening. She was thus said to be the protector of the tents of embalmers, and of the canopic jar associated with poison—the jar of the intestine—which was deified later as Qebehsenuf, one of the Four sons of Horus.

As the guard of one of the canopic jars and a protector, Serket gained a strong association with Aset (Isis), Nebet Het (Nephthys), and Neith who also performed similar functions. Eventually, long into Egyptian history that spanned thousands of years and whose pantheon evolved toward a merger of many deities, Serket began to be identified as Isis, sharing imagery and parentage, until finally, late in their history Serket became said to be merely an aspect of Isis, whose cult had become very dominant.