Heka is the god of magic and medicine in ancient Egypt and is also the personification of magic itself. He is probably the most important god in Egyptian mythology but is often overlooked because his presence was so pervasive as to make him almost invisible to the Egyptologists of the 19th and 20th centuries CE.
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Timeline
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c. 6000 BCE - c. 3150 BCEHeka develops during the Predynastic Period in Egypt.
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c. 3150 BCE - c. 2613 BCEHeka appears in inscriptions during the Early Dynastic Period in Egypt.
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c. 2613 BCE - 2181 BCEHeka associated with the heart and tongue and the gods Sia and Hu during the Old Kingdom of Egypt.
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c. 1570 BCE - 1069 BCEHeka is eclipsed by the god Amun during the New Kingdom of Egypt.
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525 BCE - 323 BCEHeka represented as a child in Late Period of Ancient Egypt, associated with agriculture.
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c. 300 CE - c. 400 CERise of Christianity in Egypt replaces Heka and old religion with new model of belief.
