Graf, Fritz, "Achlys" in Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World, Volume 1, A-ARI, editors: Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider, Brill Publishers, 2002. Not every physician in Egypt was a Follower of Serket but a good many were. Serket, as goddess of healing and protector against poison and venomous stings, was naturally the patron of doctors, even those who were not directly involved in her cult. Spells invoking Serket for healing were widely used throughout Egypt. The scholar John F. Nunn notes this, writing: sbs: Your return has most assuredly reactivated the Poison for a number of submissives, this interviewer included! Just imagining what it might be like to visit that mansion, the Queen residing over the events as her expertly trained proteges absolutely ruin and destroy any man they wish to. sbs: No you don’t, and the poison, once infected takes a strong hold. What can you share with us of your time off and what you were up to, Goddess?

Nonnus, Dionysiaca, Volume I: Books 1–15, translated by W. H. D. Rouse, Loeb Classical Library No. 344, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1940 (revised 1984). Online version at Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-99379-2. Internet Archive (1940). Graf, "Achlys", Smith, s.v. Achlys; Hyginus, Fabulae Preface 1–2 (Trzaskoma and Smith, p. 95; Latin text). In the art of ancient Egypt, Serket was depicted as a scorpion (a symbol found on the earliest artifacts of the culture, such as from Naqada III) or to have the body of a scorpion but the head of a woman or as a woman with a scorpion on her head. Although Serket does not appear to have had any temples, she had a sizable number of priests in many communities.Scorpion stings were a common hazard in Ancient Egypt. The female scorpion is larger than the male and has a greater supply of poison. Representations of Selket always show the tail raised in the stinging position. Scorpion stings cause a burning pain and shortness of breath and can be fatal to young children and the elderly. (189) sbs: I recall seeing your offer when you tweeted it and am very excited to explore that story in a stand alone feature when you have completed their training. Can you give us a hint as to what you are sharing with these fellow Dommes, and where your mentoring may lead?

The Roman counterpart to Achlys seems to have been Caligo ('dark fog'). The first-century BC Roman mythographer Hyginus, in the Preface of his Fabulae, has Caligo being the mother of Chaos (for Hesiod the first being who existed), and, with Chaos, was the mother of Night ( Nox), Day ( Dies), Darkness ( Erebus) and Ether ( Aether), possibly drawing on an otherwise unknown Greek cosmological myth. [7] Dionysiaca [ edit ] In the Shield of Heracles, an archaic Greek epic poem (early sixth century BC?), that was attributed to Hesiod, Achlys is one of the figures described as being depicted on Heracles' shield, where she is understood as being the personification of sorrow or grief: [5]The clergy of the Cult of Serket were all physicians known as Followers of Serket. Men and women could practice medicine and perform the Rites of Serket. According to historian Margaret Bunson, the practice of medicine was "the science conducted by the priests of the Per-Ankh, the House of Life. The Egyptians termed it the "necessary art" (158)". The House of Life was not a physical location, though it could be, but was a concept of healing. The priests and priestesses of Serket carried the House of Life within them in their knowledge of how to heal. Bunson writes:

As many of the venomous creatures of Egypt could prove fatal, Serket also was considered a protector of the dead, particularly being associated with venoms and fluids causing stiffening. She was thus said to be the protector of the tents of embalmers and of the canopic jar associated with venom—the jar of the intestine—which was deified later as Qebehsenuef, one of the four sons of Horus. Part of a series on In Homer, the word achlys (ἀχλύς, 'mist'), is frequently used to describe a mist that is "shed" upon a mortal's eyes, often while dying. [2] For example in the Iliad, the hero Sarpedon while grieviously wounded:The recto of the Chester Beatty papyrus VII, written in the reign of Ramesses II, contains a number of magical spells for protection against scorpions. Most invoke various wives of Horus whom Gardiner [the Egyptologist, in 1935] suggested might be merely appelations of Serqet who is actually named in the eighth spell: https://dommeaddiction.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/GoddessPoison-Protecting-You-From-My-Power-JOI-Cum-Countd.mp4 sbs: Pump and surrender. Those two words would seem to be the perfect summation of what you do to us men. How does it feel to know how easily you’ve taken our stroking and made it our undoing? The more we stroke, the weaker we get for Poison.