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Heqet
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Heqet (Egyptian ', also ' "Heqtit"), sometimes spelled Heket, is an Egyptian goddess of fertility, identified with Hathor, represented in the form of a frog.
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It is catalogued under topics including Animal deities, Anthropomorphic amphibians and Childhood goddesses.
Vinony links it to 43 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Egyptian
- Deity.name
- Heqet
- Deity.image
- Heqet goddess.svg
- Deity.consort
- Khnum, Ra (in Kom Ombo)
- Deity.offspring
- Heru-ur (in Kom Ombo)
- Deity.hiero
- H-q:t-I7
- Deity.gender
- Female
- Deity.animals
- Frog
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Ancient Egyptian deity
- Part of
- Egyptian mythology
- Gender
- female
- Image
- Heqet goddess.svg
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- Heqet
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Encyclopedic overview
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Heqet (Egyptian ', also ' "Heqtit"), sometimes spelled Heket, is an Egyptian goddess of fertility, identified with Hathor, represented in the form of a frog.
To the Egyptians, the frog was an ancient symbol of fertility, related to the annual flooding of the Nile. Heqet was originally the female counterpart of Khnum, or the wife of Khnum, and eventually she also became the mother of Heru-ur. It has been proposed that her name is the origin of the name of Hecate, the Greek goddess of witchcraft.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Heqet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.