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    Heqet was the ancient Egyptian frog-goddess of fertility, childbirth, and resurrection. As frogs were seen as symbols of life due to emerging after the Nile floods, Heqet came to represent fertility. She was typically depicted as a frog or frog-headed woman and was the wife of Khnum, who formed new children. Heqet was associated with germination, the final stages of labor, and breathing life into the newborn Horus. Her worship dates back to at least the Early Dynastic Period in Egypt.

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    Heqet was the ancient Egyptian frog-goddess of fertility, childbirth, and resurrection. As frogs were seen as symbols of life due to emerging after the Nile floods, Heqet came to represent fertility. She was typically depicted as a frog or frog-headed woman and was the wife of Khnum, who formed new children. Heqet was associated with germination, the final stages of labor, and breathing life into the newborn Horus. Her worship dates back to at least the Early Dynastic Period in Egypt.

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    Heqet

    To the Egyptians, the frog was a symbol of life and fertility, since millions of them were born after the annual
    inundation of the Nile, which brought fertility to the otherwise barren lands. Consequently, in Egyptian mythology, there began to be a frog-goddess, who represented
    fertility, referred to by Egyptologists as Heqet (also
    Heqat, Hekit, Heket etc., more rarely Hegit, Heget
    etc.),[1] written with the determinative frog.[2]

    germination of corn, she became associated with the nal stages of childbirth. This association, which appears
    to have arisen during the Middle Kingdom, gained her the
    title She who hastens the birth.[6] Some claim thateven
    though no ancient Egyptian term for midwife is known
    for certainmidwives often called themselves the Servants of Heqet, and that her priestesses were trained in
    midwifery.[7] Women often wore amulets of her during
    childbirth, which depicted Heqet as a frog, sitting in a
    lotus.

    Heqet was considered the wife of Khnum, who formed


    the bodies of new children on his potters wheel.[8]

    Name and depiction

    Her name was probably pronounced more like *aqtat


    in Middle Egyptian, hence her later Greek counterpart
    (see Hecate).[3] Heqet was usually depicted as a
    frog, or a woman with a frogs head, or more rarely as
    a frog on the end of a phallus to explicitly indicate her
    association with fertility. She was often referred to as the
    wife of Khnum.[4]

    In the myth of Osiris developed, it was said that it was


    Heqet who breathed life into the new body of Horus at
    birth, as she was the goddess of the last moments of birth.
    As the birth of Horus became more intimately associated
    with the resurrection of Osiris, so Heqets role became
    one more closely associated with resurrection. Eventually, this association led to her amulets gaining the phrase
    I am the resurrection in the Christian era along with cross
    and lamb symbolism.[9]

    A temple dedicated to Horus and Heqet dating to the


    Ptolemaic Period was found at Qus.[10][11]

    Worship of Heqet

    3 Footnotes
    [1] Armour, op.cit., p.116
    [2] Erman, op.cit. vol. 3, 169.10
    [3] McKechnie, Paul, and Philippe Guillaume. Ptolemy II
    Philadelphus and His World. Leiden: Brill, 2008. page
    133.
    [4] Cotterell, op.cit., p.213
    [5] Wilkinson, Toby, p. 286
    The god Khnum, accompanied by Heqet, moulds Ihy in a relief
    from the mammisi (birth temple) at Dendera Temple complex,
    Dendara, Egypt

    [6] cf. the role of Heqet in the story of The Birth of the Royal
    Children from the Westcar Papyrus. Lichtheim, op.cit.
    p.220

    The beginning of her cult dates to the early dynastic period at least. Her name was part of the names of some
    high-born Second Dynasty individuals buried at Helwan
    and was mentioned on a stela of Wepemnofret and in the
    Pyramid Texts. Early frog statuettes are often thought to
    be depictions of her.[5]

    [7] Franklin, op.cit., p.86


    [8] Wilkinson, Richard H. (2003). The Complete Gods and
    Goddesses of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. p. 229
    [9] Shier, Louise A. (1972). The Frog on Lamps from Karanis. Medieval and Middle Eastern Studies (Brill). p. 357.

    Later, as a fertility goddess, associated explicitly with the [10] Porter, Bertha and Moss, Rosalind. Topographical Biblilast stages of the ooding of the Nile, and so with the
    ography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs
    1

    and Paintings, V Upper Egypt: Sites (Volume 5). Grith


    Institute. 2004.
    [11] Wilkinson, Richard H., The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt, Thames and Hudson, 2000, pp 152, ISBN
    0-500-05100-3

    References
    Robert A. Armour, Gods and Myths of Ancient
    Egypt, American Univ. in CairoPress 2001
    Erman, Johann Peter Adolf, and Hermann Grapow,
    eds. 19261953. Wrterbuch der aegyptischen
    Sprache im Auftrage der deutschen Akademien. 6
    vols. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichsschen Buchhandlungen. (Reprinted Berlin: Akademie-Verlag GmbH,
    1971).
    Arthur Cotterell, The Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Myths & Legends, Macmillan 1989
    Toby A. H. Wilkinson, Early Dynastic Egypt, Routledge 1999
    Rosalind Franklin, Baby Lore: Superstitions and Old
    Wives Tales from the World Over Related to Pregnancy, Birth and Babycare, Diggory Press 2005
    M. Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Vol.1,
    1973

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