In the Westcar Papyrus, Ra sends Isis, Nephthys, Meskhenet, and Heket to attend the birth of the future Fifth Dynasty kings, with Heket hastening each delivery while Isis receives the child.
Heket holds the ankh to the nostrils of beings Khnum shapes on his potter's wheel, the frog goddess using the sign of life to animate each newly formed body with the breath of the living.
Heket breathed life into the bodies Khnum shaped on his potter's wheel, the frog goddess animating each creation with the breath of life as the ram-headed god completed its physical form.
Ra dispatched Heket among the divine birth attendants in the Westcar Papyrus, sending the frog goddess to hasten the delivery of triplets destined to found the Fifth Dynasty and serve his cult.
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