Taweret is the Egyptian goddess of childbirth. While she is the wife of Bes, the god of luck and probability, she becomes a cohort to Sobek, the god of rivers.
Egyptian Goddess
As part of the pantheon of the Egyptian gods, AKA the Ennead, Taweret ceases aging at adulthood and cannot die by conventional means.
Powers of the Ennead
Taweret possesses the same traits as her fellow Egyptian gods, making her resistant to conventional diseases and injury. She also has superhuman healing, endurance and reflexes. Only dispersal of a major portion of an Ennead’s bodily molecules will cause death, and even then, resurrection via other gods may be possible.
Ennead’s flesh and bone are two and a half times denser than human tissue, and average gods and goddesses can lift about 30 and 25 tons, respectively. Many Ennead possess additional superhuman powers, and most Ennead are skilled therianthropes, able to shift from humanoid form into the animal form that is most sacred to them. Most prefer to manifest in a theriocephalous form with a humanoid body and an animal head. Taweret manifests as a hippopotamus humanoid.
Second Chances
When Marc Spector, AKA Moon Knight’s ally and mercenary Layla El-Faouly died, the great goddess Taweret offered her a chance to balance the Egyptian Netherworld, AKA the Duat, by becoming its guardian. Taweret gave her the power of the Scarlet Scarab, restoring her to life.
