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Serquet & Scorpions
Sep. 22nd, 2005 02:46 pm
Well, last night as I was laying on the couch watching... Iron Chef? Aqua Teen Hunger Force? I don't remember... anyway, I caught sight of a largish scorpion toodling across the ceiling. Rob grabbed the ladder & broom & dispatched it to a watery death via toilet. Needless to say, he was all freaked out about it all night.
Anyway, since poisons have no effect on the tank-like arthropods, and there is nothing that will act as a physical/biological barrier to them (they don't care, they just crawl right over the sticky glue traps & crap), I started thinking magically, probably because I'm currently reading Aleister Crowley's "Magick in Theory & Practise"...
I saw myself burying a live scorpion in a jar, an act that I abhor, but would probably be effective, simply because I abhor the notion & because I saw myself doing it so clearly. But in the same vein as Crowley & his Thelemites, I started thinking about how we're having a problem that the Egyptians no doubt dealt with at some point - yes, the scorpions were sacred to them, but they probably didn't want the little fuckers running amok in their households, either. So I started being a techno-Pagan today & looking for 'spells to ward off scorpions' (no luck), 'protection spells against scorpions' (still no luck)... 'scorpion deities' - well, Bes kept scorpions & other nasties out of households, and then there's Serquet/Selket - the healing Goddess who has a scorpion on her head, or is sometimes (and rarely) pictured as a scorpion w/a Hathor-like woman's head (ew). I found one painted pewter statue of Her at www.twistedfeather.com Of course, I don't have to wait til I get Her statue to offer Her goodies in exchange for protection, but it's something to add to the wish list.
Apparently, Her feast day is October 23
Egyptian Festival Dates
From what I've read, Serquet/Selket/Serqet also guarded the canopic jar containing the intestines & the embalmer's tent... was linked w/the scorching heat of Ra, was also involved w/pregnancy & breastfeeding, magick, etc. & so forth.
Lady Moondancers Selket Page
Anyway, since poisons have no effect on the tank-like arthropods, and there is nothing that will act as a physical/biological barrier to them (they don't care, they just crawl right over the sticky glue traps & crap), I started thinking magically, probably because I'm currently reading Aleister Crowley's "Magick in Theory & Practise"...
I saw myself burying a live scorpion in a jar, an act that I abhor, but would probably be effective, simply because I abhor the notion & because I saw myself doing it so clearly. But in the same vein as Crowley & his Thelemites, I started thinking about how we're having a problem that the Egyptians no doubt dealt with at some point - yes, the scorpions were sacred to them, but they probably didn't want the little fuckers running amok in their households, either. So I started being a techno-Pagan today & looking for 'spells to ward off scorpions' (no luck), 'protection spells against scorpions' (still no luck)... 'scorpion deities' - well, Bes kept scorpions & other nasties out of households, and then there's Serquet/Selket - the healing Goddess who has a scorpion on her head, or is sometimes (and rarely) pictured as a scorpion w/a Hathor-like woman's head (ew). I found one painted pewter statue of Her at www.twistedfeather.com Of course, I don't have to wait til I get Her statue to offer Her goodies in exchange for protection, but it's something to add to the wish list.
Apparently, Her feast day is October 23
Egyptian Festival Dates
From what I've read, Serquet/Selket/Serqet also guarded the canopic jar containing the intestines & the embalmer's tent... was linked w/the scorching heat of Ra, was also involved w/pregnancy & breastfeeding, magick, etc. & so forth.
Lady Moondancers Selket Page
