Wadjet is one of the oldest known Egyptian goddesses, and her most famous representation is that of the snake on the crown of the pharaoh.

As a patron goddess of Egypt, she was associated with the land and depicted as a snake-headed woman or a snake—usually an Egyptian cobra,—sometimes she was depicted as a woman with two snake heads and at other times, as shown here, a snake with a woman's head.

Her oracle was located in the renowned temple in Per-Wadjet that was dedicated to her worship and gave the city its name. This oracle may have been the source for the oracular tradition that spread to Greece from Egypt.

Also, the most sacred part of the temple was the inner sanctum, where only high priests and the pharaoh could enter. Anyone else trying to get in would be punished by death