Heh

**Heh**


 * Other Names:**

Huh


 * Meaning of Name:**

“Magical Speech”


 * Hieroglyphics:**




 * Family:**

Heh’s female counterpart (as well as wife) was Hehet.

One of the Ogdoad, Heh was the god of infinity and time, of long life and eternity. Heh was sometimes thought to be a fire god, and a god of the wind who was linked to the four pillars that held up the sky. Like Shu, he was shown with his arms raised to help hold up the sky. As a god of infinity, Heh’s name was linked to numbers. His determinative - an image of Heh with his arms raised - was used for “one million.” It seems that “million” was a number for eternity. Heh’s image was popular as an amulet, wishing the wearer “millions of years.”

Heh was pictured as a kneeling man grasping two palm fronds, wearing another palm frond on his head, with a tadpole (the sign for “one hundred thousand”) dangling from his right elbow. Sometimes he was depicted as a man with the head of a frog or cobra. Heh was also shown as eight different gods - like Hathor and the seven Hathors - who were believed to support the great celestial cow in the heavens.

Egyptian Deities - H