Artisans Guild International Egyptian Goddess Selket Sculpture Statue

Artisans Guild International Egyptian Goddess Selket Sculpture Statue

your amazing Egyptian Goddess Selket goddess of the dead in Egyptian mythology with Scorpion symbol and She was one of the underworld deities charged with protecting the canopic jar in which the intestines of the deceased were stored after embalming,

She is one of the four protector goddesses who, with gracefully outstretched arms protect the gilded wooded shrine that houses the alabaster chest containing the four canopic jars which hold the royal viscera of King Tutankhamun. Her responsibility is to protect Qebehsenuef, god guarding the intestines. She is usually represented as a lady whose head is surmounted by a scorpion with it’s tail raised ready to sting. Selket has healing powers over venomous bites and she was patroness of magician-medics dealing with poisonous bites. She was also known as “lady of the beautiful house referring to her association with the embalmer’s tent. Here she is dressed like a queen

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