The Scorpion goddess is a figure found in several cultures.
- Chelamma - Hindu goddess of the Southern Karnataka region of India
- Malinalxochitl - Aztec goddess of snakes, scorpions and insects
- Hedetet - Egyptian scorpion goddess
- Ta-Bitjet - Egyptian goddess with anti-venomous secretions, consort to Horus
- Serket - patron goddess of the Pharaohs and deification of the scorpion
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“Her track, where’er the Goddess roves,
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—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)