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Heket (Heqet, Heka)

The Egyptian goddess of childbirth, and protector of the dead.

She is portrayed as a frog, a symbol of life and fertility (presumably because of the millions of them spawned after the annual inundation of the Nile), or as a woman with a frog's head.

Women often wore amulets of her during childbirth.

As the daughter of the sun-god Re she is called 'Eye of Re' and 'Mother of the gods'. She is regarded as the consort of Khnum.

The Encyclopedia Mythica

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