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Heqet
To the Egyptians, the frog was a symbol of life and fertility, since millions of them were born after the annual inundation of the Nile, which brought fertility to the otherwise barren lands. Consequently, in Egyptian mythology, there began to be a frog-goddess, who represented fertility, referred to by Egyptologists as Heqet (also Heqat, Hekit, Heket etc., more rarely Hegit, Heget etc.),〔Armour, ''op.cit.'', p.116〕 written with the determinative ''frog''.〔Erman, ''op.cit.'' vol. 3, 169.10〕
== Name and depiction ==
Her name was probably pronounced more like (unicode:
*Ḥaqā́tat) in Middle Egyptian, hence her later Greek counterpart (see Hecate).〔McKechnie, Paul, and Philippe Guillaume. Ptolemy II Philadelphus and His World. Leiden: Brill, 2008. page 133.〕 Heqet was usually depicted as a frog, or a woman with a frog's head, or more rarely as a frog on the end of a phallus to explicitly indicate her association with fertility. She was often referred to as the wife of Khnum.〔Cotterell, ''op.cit.'', p.213〕
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