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Heket has a minion!

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Heket

The

Nostalgic Xotl
Owner: Sekhmet

Age: 5 years, 7 months, 4 weeks

Born: September 19th, 2020

Adopted: 5 years, 7 months, 4 weeks ago

Adopted: September 19th, 2020

Statistics

Level: 21
Strength: 36
Defense: 10
Speed: 10
Health: 10
HP: 10/10
Intelligence: 98
Books Read: 77
Food Eaten: 9
Job: Rehabilitator

An ancient goddess of creation and the germination of barley, Heket was also a moon goddess, which since the earliest times was understood to be linked with the ebb and flow of water and of fertility.

She was the patroness of midwives, who called themselves the “Servants of Heket.” Women often wore amulets of Heket during childbirth. Heket sent blessings to women’s houses, and gave all creatures the "breath of life" before they were placed to grow in their mother's womb. In the Osiris myth, it was Heket who breathed life into the body of Horus at birth, and she was midwife to the birth of the sun every morning.

Heket took part in burial ceremonies at Abydos, and she was pictured on coffins as a protective deity of the dead. Heket is depicted in reliefs from the temple of Hathor at Dendera participating in the resurrection of Osiris.

Being sacred to Heket, frogs were sometimes mummified.

Heket was thought to be the daughter of Ra and the wife of Khnum, Shu, Horus, or Sobek. She was sometimes considered to have been created by Thoth.

Credits

❖ Story by Sekhmet with information from these sources
❖ Background photo from Hasmik Ghazaryan Olson
❖ Profile by Balloon