WaterIncenseBreadBeerThe keeping of a long vowA counting of years
Invocation Approach
Tone
Vast and unhurried
Address
HehLord of EternityHe of the Millions
Relationship
The measure that is longer than your life
Warning
He does not hurry and will not be hurried he is not a god of quick results
Resonance
Those swearing long vows those at the end of a long work
Symbols
Notched palm ribAnkhFrogThe sky supportThe number million
Mythology Summary
Heh is the personification of infinity and eternity, one of the four male gods of the Ogdoad of Hermopolis, and his name originally meant 'flood' — the boundless water of Nun out of which the world was made. He is shown as a frog-headed man, or as a man carrying the notched palm rib that is the hieroglyph for 'a million years', and he and his female counterpart Hauhet (Hehet) support the sky. In the Book of the Dead and the Books of the Underworld he holds up the heavens and grants the king 'millions of years', and the kneeling Heh with his palm ribs was carved on royal furniture and amulets as a wish for countless years.
Modern Practice
Heh is invoked for endurance rather than for speed: long vows, long works, the keeping of a practice over years, and the support of something that must not fall. The practice is the counting and the keeping — water poured out, a record kept.
Heh = 5, ordinal 5, reduced 5, no final form. Spelled in full, הי = 5+10 = 15, which is also the value of יה.
Meaning
Heh is 'window' and one of the twelve simples. It is the letter that appears twice in the Tetragrammaton, and the Kabbalistic grammars make it the letter of the divine breath and of the feminine. Its 5 is the number of the five books of the Torah and of the five final forms, so a very small number carries an unusual load.