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In Egyptian mythology,
Huh (also spelt Hu, Hah, or Heh) 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.
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