REL 1004 Chapter : Plagues And Deliverance
Document Summary
The goddess of the river: retribution, the divine river that the pharaoh had chosen for the death of baby males now is polluted and cannot bring life to egypt. Second plague: frogs: the goddess heqt, the wife of the creator of the world and the goddess of birth, heqt was always shown with the head and the body of a frog. Amulets and scarabs worn by egyption women to protect them during childbirth would often bear the image of heqt for protection. Heqt was believed to assist women in childbirth -- consider the irony in the statement that frogs invaded pharaohs bedroom: 3rd plague: lice, this plague would have been an embarrassment to geb, the great god of the earth.
