Isis, Nephthys, Neith, and Serket stood at the four corners of Osiris's bier during his resurrection, each goddess shielding one side from the forces of chaos, a vigil repeated for every pharaoh's passage into the afterlife.
Serket the scorpion goddess guards the canopic jar of Qebehsenuef, the falcon-headed Son of Horus who protects the intestines of the deceased in Egyptian funerary rites.
Serket helped cure the infant Horus from scorpion stings in the Delta marshes, as recorded on the Metternich Stela and other cippi of Horus.
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