Gilded Wood Detail of the goddess Selket (also known as Serqet, Serket or Selcis /ˈsɛlsɨs/, is the goddess of healing poisonous stings and bites in Egyptian mythology, originally the deification of the scorpion.) from the canopic shrine. Tomb of Tutankhamun, Reign: 1332-1323 BC. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty.