The Goddess Heket

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Heket, Great-Magician.
H]K]T
[to Whom the fifteenth day of May, day 135, is dedicated]

Geography/Culture: Egyptian.
Description: Ancient Great, sometimes frog-headed, Goddess of creation, germination, fertility, spells, incantations, human conception and birth; Mother of the Deities; She Who assists the daily rebirth of the sun; She Who presides over the embryonic state of grain just prior to germination; Ancestress of Deities; Midwife of the sun's birth; She Who accelerates the birth of rulers.
To Whom Sacred: grain; frog (since the frog was seen in great numbers a day or two before the rise of the Nile -- or after the annual inundation -- it was regarded as a symbol of new life and prolific generation and multiplication. A frog amulet, sometimes a frog at the end of a phallus was carried by Egyptions to guarantee fertility); thighs; Ankh.
Iconography: frog-headed.
Male Associates: Khnemu (Khumn), Moulder, or Shu, He-Who-Holds-Up.

Titles/Variants, etc:

See also under Diana, Divine-Queen, Compiler's note.
Perhaps the origin of Thracian Hecate, She-Who-Works-from-Afar.
Variant: Hak.
Variant: Heka.
Variant: Heqet.
Probably also known as: Heq-Maa, see below.
Variant: Heqt.
Variant: Heqti.
Variant: Heqtit.
Sometimes it is said She assisted Isis in bringing Osiris back to life, and in conceiving a child by him.
She has affinities with Hindustani Laja linked under Gauri.
Meshkhent is also an Egyptian birth Goddess present at the birth of rulers.
It seems possible She is to be identified with Naunet, see below.
See also Satis Whose consort was also Khnum.
See also Aztec Tonantzin, who was worshipped as a great green frog.

Source: BD.EAWB/193, 309, 602; NLEM/38; PCMD/Heket; WWEM.AM/55.

Heq-Maa, Mother-of-magical-knowledge.
H]KM*
Geography/Culture: Egyptian.

Titles/Variants, etc:

Perhaps an alternate name for, or original form of: Heket.
Perhaps origin of, well probably not, but related to? Hebraic Hokhma, Wisdom.
Title of Isis, Exceeding-queen.

Naunet, ---.
N9N]T
Geography/Culture: Egyptian.
Description: Frog-headed, [or serpent-headed] creatrix; Frog Goddess of the Ogdoad.
Male Associate: consort, Nun.

Titles/Variants, etc:

It seems possible She is related to Heket, if not another name for Her.
Perhaps Mother of Maat. {Maat is called Daughter of Ra, without consort. Since Ra was born from Nun, consort of Naunet, (or from Atum, divine Shehe Who was born from Nun),
Perhaps Mother of Tefnut, {Who is called Daughter of Atum, from the same reasoning as above. Probably a good idea to separate out Atum as a divine Shehe sometime}.

Source: Mercacante WWEM 111; Monaghan BGH 215.

worked on: August 6, 1991; February 17, 1992; May 1995
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