#HEKA GOD Of #Magic and #Medicine

Heka is the god of magic and medicine in ancient Egypt and is also the personification of magic itself. He is probably the most important god in Egyptian mythology but is often overlooked because his presence was so pervasive as to make him almost invisible to the Egyptologists of the 19th and 20th centuries CE. Unlike the well-known Osiris and Isis, Heka had no cult following, no ritual worship, and no temples (except in the Late Period of Ancient Egypt, 525-323 BCE). He is mentioned primarily in medical texts and magical spells and incantations and, because of this, was relegated to the realm of superstition rather than religious belief. Although he is not featured by name in the best-known myths, he was regarded by the ancient Egyptians as the power behind the gods whose names and stories have become synonymous with Egyptian culture.

#Magic was considered present at the birth of creation - was, in fact, the operative force in the creative act - and so #Heka is among the oldest gods of Egypt, recognized as early as the Predynastic Period in Egypt (c. 6000 - c. 3150 BCE) and appearing in inscriptions in the Early Dynastic Period (c. 3150 - 2613 BCE).

He was depicted in anthropomorphic form as a man in royal dress wearing the regal curved beard of the gods and carrying a staff entwined with two serpents. This symbol, originally associated with the healing god Ninazu of Sumer (son of the goddess Gula), was adopted for Heka and traveled to Greece where it became associated with their healing god Asclepius, and today is the caduceus, symbol of the medical profession. Heka is also sometimes represented as the two gods most closely tied to him, Sia and Hu and, beginning in the Late Period (525-332 BCE), he is depicted as a child and, at the same time, is seen as the son of Menhet and Khnum as part of the triad of Latopolis.
He is frequently seen in funerary texts and inscriptions guiding the soul of the deceased to the afterlife and is often mentioned in medical texts and spells. The Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts both claim Heka as their authority (the god whose power makes the texts true) and, according to #Egyptologist Richard H. Wilkinson, "he was viewed as a god of inestimable power" who was feared by the other gods (110).
Heka referred to the deity, the concept, and the practice of magic. Since magic was a significant aspect of medical practice, a physician would invoke Heka in order to practice heka. The universe was created and given form by magical means, and magic sustained both the visible and invisible worlds. Heka was thought to have been present at creation and was the generative power the gods drew upon in order to create life.

In the Coffin Texts (written c. 2134-2040 BCE) the god speaks to this directly, saying, "To me belonged the universe before you gods came into being. You have come afterwards because I am Heka" (Spell, 261). Heka, therefore, had no parents, no origin; he had always existed. To human beings, he finds expression in the heart and the tongue, represented by two other gods, #Sia and #Hu. #Heka, Sia, and Hu were responsible for creation as well as for maintenance of the world and the regulation of human birth, life, and death.

[mandulis]

They outlawed Magic by casting the ultimate spell on the human race. The Irony of it. By Magic telling you not to practice Magic. Religion was and is magic. 🔥

[yahoogyahoog]

we all know HEKA IS Odin, Apophis, Hekata, they are Gods they are the light.

[mummynapkin.]

keep it quiet in the circle. don’t allow yourself to become a useless jealous and prideful person do heka was not insecure hateful like most “gods” are. true love and healing will bring no karma

[foxyauragems]

You have to dig deeper than the “obvious” finds and claims of egyptologists and the criminal zahi Hawass et al. Even the common beliefs of dynastic times . Heka is my kind of god 🌚❤️

[scorpiorob]

Very good presentation.

Yes, "HEKA" (Magick), is as NATURAL as DAY and NIGHT, and DARKNESS and LIGHT.

The peoples back in Ancient Khem (Egypt), didn't refer to their GOD'S and GODDESSES as GOD'S and GODDESSES, they referred to them as the "NETERU" (collectively), and as a "NETER" (singularly), the true and accurate definition of which being "FORCE/S OF NATURE".
That is also the TRUE etymological root (despite being at odds with the official Latin version of NURTURE, that is given), of the English word NATURE.

NATURE is SUPREME and DIVINITY manifest!

NATURE have both DARKNESS and LIGHT within too (as does humanity/mankind aswell).

NATURE/UNIVERSE (MULTIVERSE), is ALIVE and CONSCIOUS (whether one believes so or not).

My own words = "Honor the DARK and honour the LIGHT and strive for balance within, for to wrongly equate ALL THAT IS DARK with 'all that is evil', due to fear or ignorance or a lack of effort to accurately comprehend it, is much worse an error, than to believe in the Abrahamic concept of original sin".

Hail the mighty Emperor!