Ancient Egyptian deities: Heqat

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Heqat

also Heqet, Heket etc

Heqat

Heqat was a chthonic goddess depicted in the shape of a frog or as a woman with a frog head. She was the female complement of Khnum, creating the body of the foetus inside the womb. As such she was especially venerated at Herur.

Heqat assisted at the delivery, be it human or divine as in the case of the posthumus birth of Horus. In the Tale of the Birth of the Royal Children Heqat hastened the birth. At Abydos she was part of the Osirian cult.
The Egyptians believed that frogs were created in the ooze left after the Nile inundation. Heqat was identified with the primeval mud from which the sun god emerged.

Bibliography:
Manfred Lurker, Lexikon der Götter und Symbole der alten Ägypter, Scherz 1998, p.95
Geraldine Pinch, Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt, Oxford University Press US, 2004