Editing Hedetet

{{short description|Ancient Egyptian scorpion goddess}}
{{infobox deity
| name = Hededet
| type = egyptian
| hiero = <hiero>H-d:d-t-L7</hiero><ref>Erman, Adolf & Grapow, Hermann (ed.): Wörterbuch der Aegyptischen Sprache., Im Auftrage der Deutschen Akademien, Berlin: Akademie Verlag (1971), III., p.206, III., p.206</ref>
}}
{{Ancient Egyptian religion}}
'''Hededet''' or '''Hedjedjet''' ''(ḥdd.t)'' is a [[scorpion]] [[Ancient Egyptian deities|goddess]] of the [[ancient Egyptian religion]]. She resembles [[Serket]] in many ways, but was in later periods merged into [[Isis]].<ref name="W229" /> She was depicted with the head of a scorpion, nursing a baby.<ref name="W229">Richard Wilkinson: ''The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt''. London, Thames and Hudson, 2003. {{ISBN|978-0-500-05120-7}}, p.230</ref> She is mentioned in the ''[[Book of the Dead]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Goyon |first=Jean-Claude |date=1978 |title=Hededyt: Isis-scorpion et Isis au scorpion. En marge du Papyrus de Brooklyn 47.218.50 – III |url=https://www.ifao.egnet.net/bifao/78/25/ |journal=[[Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale]] |volume=78 |issue=2 |pages=439-458}}</ref>

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