Heqet
| Heqet | |||||
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| Name in hieroglyphs | |||||
| Animals | Frog | ||||
| Gender | Female | ||||
| Consort | Khnum, Ra (in Kom Ombo) | ||||
| Offspring | Heru-ur (in Kom Ombo) | ||||
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Heqet (Egyptian ḥqt, also ḥqtyt "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.