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Heka (Wikipedia)
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Wikipedia's article on Heka, the ancient Egyptian concept and god of magic, consulted 2026-08-12. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Reliability Tier3
Reliability tier 3: a continuously community-edited tertiary reference with no formal peer review process, suitable for citable, checkable factual claims but not treated as authoritative on genuinely contested points. NotesWikipedia's article on Heka, consulted 2026-08-12. Useful here for heka's attestation from the Old Kingdom Pyramid Texts onward and Coffin Text spell 261's description of it existing before duality had yet come into being, and for Egyptologist Ogden Goelet's 1994 characterisation of heka's close association with speech and the power of the word, a different angle from the practice's papyri, practitioners and applied uses.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heka_(god)
Source Typereference
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This source names Ancient Egyptians directly: "Wikipedia's article on Heka, the ancient Egyptian concept and god of magic, consulted 2026-08-12."
Source Heka (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Claims Backed By This Source (35 claims)
This source backs 35 claims across the atlas. As facts: 32 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Practices, 26 claims: 24 well-attested, 2 general references.
- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
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