The provenance file on Srqt
Catalogue entry — Srqt. Every claim below carries its chain of custody.
Provenance
1. The attestation. 𓊃𓂋𓈎𓏏𓁐, from the tradition's own record. On record: Metternich Stela (Horus cippus tradition), Pyramid and Coffin Texts (canopic guardians), Book of the Dead (protection formulae), Serket entries in Lexikon der Ägyptologie.
2. The narrative record. The Four Guardians of the Dead — When Isis wrapped the reassembled Osiris, the four great protective goddesses — Isis, Nephthys, Neith and Serket — took station at the corners of his bier and canopic chest. Serket’s scorpion stands for the poisoned threats of the night that must be kept from the god’s body; her arms spread in the ‘Isis-knot’ gesture frame every royal sarcophagus hall. The Scorpion and the Child Horus — The great cippi of Horus the child — the Metternich Stela above all — tell how the infant god was stung by a scorpion in the marshes and revived by the divine mother's magic. Serket stands within that cycle as the power over the venom itself: the sting belongs to her, and so, therefore, does its antidote.
3. The physical record. She stands at the corners of Tutankhamun’s canopic shrine — the gilded goddesses of the treasury are among the most photographed objects of Egypt — and in relief on royal sarcophagi from the Old Kingdom onward. Her scorpion emblem marks protective amulets by the thousand in museum collections.
4. The current holding. The temple at /serket/, a temple of the restored name. aSCII-equivalent form
5. The documented resonances. Healthcare, Pharma & Medicine, Insurance & Protection Services, Cybersecurity & Digital Protection — seats argued and weighted in the pattern atlas, read through the myths in this temple's Resonance File.
6. The primary sources. The Book of the Dead — the library this file answers to, open at the Sacred Texts collection.
7. The continuing record. Her image — woman with a scorpion on her head, arms winged out in protection — is one of the most immediately readable Egyptian glyphs of care. The Metternich Stela and the Horus cippi made her the patroness of a whole genre of healing magic that persisted into Coptic exorcistic texts.
At a Glance
- Restored name: Srqt
- ASCII form: serket
- Meaning: "She who causes the throat to breathe"
- Domain of influence: Scorpions, Healing, Poison
- Pantheon: Egyptian
- Restoration: ASCII-equivalent form
- Original script: 𓊃𓂋𓈎𓏏𓁐
- Series: The Restoration Files, No. 470 of 597
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