Traditional Egyptian God of magic. Healers possessed the power and knowledge of sacred texts and were thought to be magicians. His hieroglyph of two intertwined snakes still used in modern medicine. Egyptian thought held therapy to be of four components: power or the primeval potency of the creator-god Heka; magical rituals, known as Seshaw; Sacred texts, or Rw; Pekhret were prescriptions.
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