Hededet

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Hededet is a scorpion goddess in Egyptian mythology . She is a union of the protective goddess Selket and the mother goddess Isis and is therefore venerated both as a protective and mother goddess.

Hededet is shown with a female torso and the lower body of a scorpion .

literature

  • Hans Bonnet : Lexicon of the Egyptian religious history. 3rd, unchanged edition, Nikol, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 , p. 284 → Hededet , p. 722f. → Scorpio .