{"id":1708,"date":"2024-08-02T06:42:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T06:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatifthings.com\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2024-08-02T06:42:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T06:42:47","slug":"what-happens-if-you-bow-to-heket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatifthings.com\/what-happens-if-you-bow-to-heket\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens if you bow to Heket?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Consequences of Bowing to Heket<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you bow to Heket, an ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility and childbirth, it is believed that you are showing respect and seeking her blessings for fertility or safe childbirth. In ancient times, people believed that Heket had the power to grant fertility and protect mothers and children. Bowing to her could be seen as a way of invoking her aid and protection in these matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Egyptian mythology, Heket was often depicted as a frog-headed woman, symbolizing fertility and rebirth. She was also associated with the annual flooding of the Nile River, which brought fertile soil for agriculture. By bowing to Heket, people may have believed they were aligning themselves with the forces of nature that bring life and sustenance. Ultimately, bowing to Heket was a way of seeking her divine assistance in matters related to fertility, childbirth, and the cycles of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Consequences of Bowing to Heket When you bow to Heket, an ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility and childbirth, it is believed that you are showing respect and seeking her&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatifthings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatifthings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatifthings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatifthings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatifthings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatifthings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1710,"href":"https:\/\/whatifthings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/1710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatifthings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatifthings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatifthings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatifthings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}