Heket

Frog Goddess of Birth and the Breath of Life, She who animates the forms shaped by Khnum, Lady of the Waters of Creation and of the breath that brings life into bodies.

Heket is the frog Goddess of life and childbirth, who breathes the soul into the bodies shaped by Khnum.
She represents the miracle of birth and the power that renews every form, visible or invisible.

The name Heket (Ḥqt) is associated with the verb ḥq, meaning “to vivify,” “to give vital power.”
She is depicted as a woman with the head of a frog, or as a pure frog — symbol of water, fertility, and rebirth.
Since the earliest times, the frog was seen as a sign of life and abundance, for it appeared in great numbers after the flooding of the Nile, the river of regeneration.

Heket embodied this creative power of the waters, but in a subtler and more spiritual form:
not the water that flows in the physical world, but the breath that moves life itself.

In Egyptian theology, Heket works beside Khnum:
while he shapes the body on his potter’s wheel, she breathes the spark of the Ka into the nostrils of the newly formed being.
She is the Goddess of the first breath, the symbol of the moment when the soul enters matter.

She was also the patroness of midwives and pregnant women, invoked during childbirth and in rites of protection for motherhood.

In the initiatory context, Heket represents spiritual rebirth — the descent of spirit into the purified body, or the rekindling of the inner breath during a rite of regeneration.
In the mystery schools, she was associated with the breath of the Word, for speech — like breath — is what animates and creates.

Thus, she is the vital voice of the Demiurge, the breath that transforms clay into life and silence into consciousness.