| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Serket(-hetyt)" | Egypt | Minor mortuary goddess. Known from the middle of the third millennium BC, she protects the throne of the king in the guise of a scorpion. She is depicted in human form wearing a headpiece in the form of a scorpion with its sting raised. In the Pyramid Texts she is the mother of the scorpion god NEHEBU-KAU. In her role as a mortuary goddess she is partly responsible for guarding the jars containing the viscera of the deceased. Although she is never identified as warding off the effect of scorpion stings, her influence has been regarded as effective against other venomous attacks. Also Selkis (Greek).... |
| Goddess name "Serket[-hetyt]" | Egypt | A minor mortuary goddess |
| Goddess name "Serkethetyt" | Egypt | Minor mortuary goddess Egypt |
| Goddess name "Serqet" | Egypt | Goddess of the morning star Egypt |
| Goddess name "Ses'at" | Egypt | Goddess of libraries and the art of writing. Known from 2500 BC, or earlier, until the end of Egyptian history circa AD 400. She is depicted anthropomorphically bearing a seven-pointed star or rosette on her head, sometimes atop a wand and below a bow-shaped object. Early in her career she was åśśociated with the ritual of stretching the cord during which boundary poles were rammed into the ground by the king before measuring out the foundations of a sanctuary. As a scribe she recorded the lists of foreign captives and their tributes. At Karnak in Upper Egypt and at Dendara she recorded the royal jubilees on a notched palm stem.See also SEFKHET-ABWY.... |
| God name "Sesa" | Hindu | Snake god, he is at the Great serpent who lies in the primeval sea and encircles the world Hindu / Puranic / Vedic / Epic |
| God name "Sesa(naga) (remainder)" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | Snake god or naga. The great serpent lying in the primeval sea and encircling the world. The son of KASYAPA and KADRU. A many-headed attendant on VIS'NU who uses the snake as a couch on which to rest between cycles of the universe. Its many hoods overshadow and protect him. Not technically a deity but important enough in literature to be included here. Also Adisesa; ANANTA.... |
| God name "Sesa[naga]" | Hindu / Epic / Vedic / Puranic | A snake god / Naga, he is at the Great serpent that lies in the primeval sea & encircles the world |
| Goddess name "Sesat" | Egypt | Goddess of Books and knowledge Egypt |
| Goddess name "Sese" | Ngbandi / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Chthonic goddess. One of seven deities invoked at Sunrise each day.... |
| Goddess name "Sese Ngbandi" | Zaire | Chthonic goddess who is invoked at Sunrise every day Zaire |
| King name "Sesha" | Hindu | king of the serpent race, on which Vishnu reclines on the primeval waters. It has a thousand heads, on one of which the world rests. The coiled-up sesha is the emblem of eternity. Hindu |
| Goddess name "Seshat" | Egypt | Goddess of writing and measurement, also the patroness of mathmatics, architecture and record-keeping. Egypt |
| Goddess name "Sesmetet" | See also SAKHMET | Egyptian goddess. Seta... |
"Sesrumner" | Norse | Freyja's large-seated palace. Norse |
| Goddess name "Sessrumnir" | Germanic | Goddess of fertility. Germanic |
"Set" | Egypt | The son of Seb and Nut, is the brother of Osiris, Isis, and Nephthys; and the father of Anubis by Nephthys. Set stole the light from the Sun, resulting in autumn and Winter. Egypt |
| Goddess name "Seta" | Pokot / Suk / Kenya | A goddess of the Pleiades as well as a fertility goddess |
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