Anonymous ID: c56c67 March 23, 2020, 11:30 a.m. No.8533568   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3663

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Also Egyptian origin:

This is central to [their] belief system.

 

Heqet (Egyptian ḥqt, also ḥqtyt "Heqtit") 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 by whom she became the mother of Her-ur. It has been proposed that her name is the origin of the name of Hecate, the Greek goddess of witchcraft.

 

The name is written as ḥqt with the determinative "frog". The alternative form ḥqtyt adds an explicit feminine ending, used alongside the "egg" determinative to emphasize the deity's femininity. The Middle Egyptian pronunciation of the name may have been close to /ħaˈqaːtat/, which has been proposed (among other possibilities) as the origin of the name of Greek Hecate (Ἑκάτη).