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