Huh (god)

Huh (god)

:"Not to be confused with Hu (mythology)."

In Egyptian mythology, Huh (also Heh, Hah, Hauh) was the deification of eternity in the Ogdoad, his name itself meaning "endlessness". As a concept, he was androgynous, his female form being known as Hauhet, which is simply the feminine form of his name.

Like the other concepts in the Ogdoad, his male form was often depicted as a frog, or a frog-headed human, and his female form as a snake or snake-headed human. The other common representation depicts him crouching, holding a palm stem in each hand (or just one), sometimes with a palm stem in his hair, as palm stems represented long life to the Egyptians, the years being represented by notches on it. Depictions of this form also had a shen ring at the base of each palm stem, which represented infinity. Depictions of Huh were also used in hieroglyphs to represent "one million", which was essentially considered equivalent to infinity in Egyptian mathematics. Thus this deity is also known as the 'god of millions of years'.

ee also

*Renpet

External links

*http://www.pantheon.org/articles/h/huh.html


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