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Frog Goddess Heket Statue |
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Goddess Heket Statue
Egyptian Frog Goddess
3 inches tall (7 cm) Casting Stone
Bronze Finish with Gold Detail
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[Egyptian Museum, Cairo. 664-332 B.C.] |
The Goddess Heket, who
was represented in the form of an Egyptian frog or with a frog's head, was
worshipped especially in the town of Hew-Wer as the female complement of Khnum.
Together with other Gods she assisted in fashioning the child in the womb and
presided over the birth in her capacity of midwife.
Amulets and scarabs worn by women to protect them during childbirth often bear
the image of the Frog Goddess. The life-giving powers of Heket enabled her to be
adopted as a benign deity fit to accompany Osiris, in whose temple at Abidos she
receives wine from King Seti I and is labelled "Mistress of the Two
Lands".
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