Heh

Heh is the only member of the Ogdoad most people have seen. The kneeling man holding a notched palm rib in each hand is on the back of Tutankhamun's chairs and on a great deal of royal jewellery, and what it says is 'millions of years' — the palm rib being the actual object a scribe notched to count them. In the Hermopolitan system he and Hauhet are the endlessness of space; in the decorative use he is the endlessness of a reign. Both readings are of the same word, which is simply the Egyptian for a million.

Domains

• infinity

Relations

• spouse: HauhetHis Ogdoad pair.Reference treatment of the Ogdoad, pairing Heh with Hauhet as the endlessness of space. (secondary)

Sources

• Heh is the male half of the Heh pair in the Ogdoad of Hermopolis, personifying endlessness, and appears as a kneeling figure holding notched palm ribs in a wish for millions of years.: Reference treatments of the Ogdoad and of Heh's iconography. (secondary)