The Egyptian goddess of childbirth, Heket is the protector of the dead. She is portrayed as a frog or as a woman with a frog's head, a symbol of life and fertility was worshipped especially in the town of Hew-Wer),. 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. |
