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	REALM OF THE GODS
		Khnum was worshipped on the island of Elephantine at Aswan from the Early Dynastic period (3100 - 2686 BC) onwards.
		Khnum was one of the principal creator gods and was believed to have modelled the human body from clay on his potters wheel.
		Khnum was known as the patron god of potters, as well as being associated with the fertility of the soil and the annual inundation of the Nile.
	gtae.users.btopenworld.com /godsK.htm (557 words)

	Kemet.org Names of Netjer : Khnum
		Khnum - "Protector/Enricher" Depicted as a ram-headed man, Khnum is the form of the Self-Created One most venerated in Upper Kemet (as opposed to the Ra/Tem family of Mennefer and the Delta).
		Khnum is a potter, who molds the souls and bodies of all living things from the clay of the earth, and gives them the breath of life.
		Khnum is given two consorts (or alternately, one consort and a daughter): Satet and Anuket.
	www.kemet.org /glossary/khnum.html (201 words)

	Virtual Egyptian - Unidentified king as Khnum, Dyn. 20
		Khnum is closely associated with the first cataract area, at the south end of Egypt, and most particularly with the island of Elephantine.
		Instead, the prominence of Khnum in personal names and inscriptions in the early dynastic period suggests that Khnum enjoyed national recognition much earlier than the rise of Elephantine, and did not become a local god of the cataract until later.
		Khnum is usually portrayed as a man with the head of a ram—a breed of ram with long wavy horns which disappeared after the Middle Kingdom (by contrast, Amun as a ram is portrayed with regular ram horns).
	www.virtualegypt.org /Collection/Content/MET.SS.00367.html (1158 words)

	Esna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The main attraction in Esna is the Temple of Khnum, which lies beneath the level of the modern town, in a pit.
		Khnum was the ram-headed god who was worshipped through out this area and who fashioned mankind from mud of the Nile on his potter's wheel.
		The west wall of the Temple of Khnum is all that remains of the original Ptolemaic temple and has reliefs of Ptolemy VI and Philometor and Euergetes II.
	c.yorkmiller.users.btopenworld.com /itinerary/esna.htm (540 words)

	Khnum & the Potter's Wheel
		Khnum was a ram-headed deity, called 'high of plumes, sharp of horns'.
		One of the earliest traces of Khnum is on a stela erected at Seheil island overlooking the cataract.
		The myth of Khnum creating the child on his potter´s wheel was used by rulers to legalize their claim to the throne, which can be seen at reliefs from both the time of Hatshepsut (at Deir el-Bahri) and the time of Amunhotep III (1391-1353 B.C) at Thebes.
	www.philae.nu /akhet/KhnumCreator.html (992 words)

	Egypt: Khnum, Potter God of the Inundation Silt and Creation
		Khnum (Khenmew, Khnemu, Khenmu, Chnum), from the Egyptian 'unite', 'join' or 'build', was an ancient deity of fertility, water and the great potter who created children and their ka at their conception.
		So Khnum fashioned the body of Amen-Ra's daughter and the body of her ka, the two forms exactly alike and more beautiful than the daughters of men.
		He fashioned them of clay with the air of his potter's wheel and Heqet, goddess of birth, knelt by his side holding the sign of life towards the clay that the bodies of Hatshepsut and her ka might be filled with the breath of life.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/khnum.htm (1722 words)

	Elephantine - OnlineEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		According to Egyptian mythology, here was the dwelling place of Khnum, the ram-headed god of the cataracts, who controlled the waters of the Nile from caves beneath the island: he was worshipped here as part of a Triad comprising him, his wife Satis, and their daughter Anuket.
		There are records of a temple to Khnum here as early as Dynasty 3, and most of the southern tip of the island is taken up by the ruins of the later temple to him that was completely rebuilt in the Late Period (Dynasty 30).
		The Elephantine Papyri are caches of legal documents and letters written in Aramaic, which document the community of Jewish soldiers stationed here during the Persian occupation of Egypt.
	www.neareasternarchaeology.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Elephantine (452 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Heritage \| Both pagan and Christian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Elegantly carved capitals in the Temple of Khnum at Esna; The new Monastery of the Martyrs at Esna is a large and elegant construction in neo-Coptic style; One of the rock-hewn sanctuaries in the oldest church in the monastery
		The Graeco-Roman Temple of Khnum at Esna currently stands below ground level in the centre of the city, where it is subject to daily seepage from wastewater.
		The Egyptian artists who adorned the Temple of Khnum undoubtedly required a certain measure of hypocrisy, or cynicism, to eulogise a Roman emperor who lived on the other side of the sea in the guise of a Pharaoh.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/712/hr1.htm (1595 words)

	EXN.ca \| Discovery
		The ram god, Khnum, was thought of as responsible for the creation of mankind, which he made from the mud of the Nile on his potter's wheel.
		Khnum is a very ancient deity dating back to the Old Kingdom, and was closely associated with creation and the annual flooding of the Nile.
		Khnum was typically depicted as a man with the head of a ram.
	www.exn.ca /Stories/2000/02/14/61.asp (164 words)

	KNEEL BEFORE YOUR GODDESS:KHNUM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Khnum is the link between the gods and the people of the world.
		Khnum's actions in moulding the human body on the wheel are explicitly stated and survive as a detailed anatomical record.
		Other descriptions emphasise that Khnum's moulding on the wheel is a continual process and not just restricted to Egyptians but to those who speak foreign languages as well.
	freespace.virgin.net /star.gate/khnum.html (170 words)

	The Djed Pillar and the Body of Asar - the God of Resurrection
		Khnum is one of the oldest gods in Egypt dating to Predynastic times and texts of all periods state that Khnum was the 'builder' of Gods and Men.
		Sometimes Khnum is shown with four ram heads on one neck and according to Brugsch, each head symbolized each of the four elements air, water, fire, and earth.
		The white crown, like the god Khnum, as well as the Djed pillar are all related to the resurrection of the dead king.
	www.pyramidofman.com /Osiris-Djed.htm (2467 words)

	Writing.Com: Sobek & Hathor
		Khnum, meanwhile, after inspecting his creation to make certain that everything was perfect, picked it up and placed it in the kiln to let it harden.
		Khnum thought this mildly unusual since the god didn't normally do such things, but supposed it must have been because his daughter was involved.
		Khnum descended the steps to his cave and went directly to the shelves in the back room, searching through the myriad sculptures while Ra perched atop the potter's wheel like a clay figurine.
	www.writing.com /view/255895 (8497 words)

	Blind To Love
		Khnum tipped his head to the side to watch her again.
		Khnum held his breath as his creation, a tiny, delicate gazelle, picked its way carefully over the river, Sati kneeling down to watch it come.
		Khnum lifted his head a bit, peering out from between his fingers, curiosity piqued.
	www.geocities.com /tehuti_88/blindtolove.html (3056 words)

	Directory of Ancient Egyptian Gods
		Khnum was shown as a potter who molded deities, humans and animals from clay on his potting wheel, and then breathed life into them.
		He was usually depicted as a man with the head of a ram, his sacred animal and a symbol of male creative power.
		Khnum was believed to control the rising of the waters of the Nile, an annual phenomenon crucial to the fertility of the land and life itself.
	www.osirisweb.com /egypt/director.htm (2058 words)

	Stuffe & Nonsense Lore: Egyptian Gods
		Khnum is a truly ancient god of fertility and water, probably pre-Dynastic.
		Khnum is shown as a ram-headed man. The ram's horns are spiral and grow horizontally out from his head.
		Sometimes Khnum also has a small pair of cow's horns in his headdress, to hold the solar disk.
	www.stuffemal.com /misc/EgyptianGods.html (4510 words)

	City Guide for Esna in Egypt - Khnum And Hapy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Upper Egypt, Khnum was originally the ram-headed creator-god who moulded man on a potter's wheel, and the guardian of the Nile's source (which myth assigned to the caves just beyond the First Cataract, although the ancient Egyptians must have known better).
		Later, however, Khnum was demoted to an underling of Amun-Re and shared his role as river deity with Hapy, god of the Nile in flood, who was also believed to dwell in an island cavern near the First Cataract.
		Shown with a blue-green body and a female breast, wearing a crown of lotus or sedge (the heraldic plants of Upper and Lower Egypt), he should not be confused with Hapi, son of Horus, the ape-headed deity of canopic jars.
	www.cityguides-worldwide.com /Egypt/61291.htm (141 words)

	Egyptian God Khnum Egyptian Papyrus Bookmark
		Khnum was the ancient Egyptian god of fertility, associated with water and procreation.
		Worshiped as early as 2800 BC, he was represented as a ram with twisting horns or as a man with a ram's head.
		Khnum was also seen as a fertility god because of his association with the fertile silt.
	www.egyptiandreams.co.uk /product_info.php?ref=8&products_id=217&affiliate_banner_id=1 (384 words)

	Esna Album - index page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Temple of Khnum at Esna was built in Greco-Roman times by the Ptolemies.
		The temple was dedicated to the ram-headed god Khnum, ancient deity of fertility, water, guardian of the source of the Nile, and the great potter who created children and their lifeforce/ka at their conception.
		Here Khnum was given two consorts, Menhyt (a lion headed war goddess, 'She Who Slaughters') and Nebtu (a local goddess of the oasis, 'The Guilded One').
	home.cfl.rr.com /dawnstar/Egypt/esnaTemple.htm (113 words)

	Temple of Khnum in Isna, Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This the ram god that was worshipped through out this area and who fashioned mankind from mud of the Nile on his potter's wheel.
		Ptolemy VI originally began this building project, but the Temple of Khnum was a later addition built by the Roman emperor Claudius in the 1st century.
		The roof is still intact, supported by 24 columns decorated with a series of text recording hymns to Khnum and relating the annual sacred festivals of Isna with scenes illustrating the surrounding countryside.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/GeogHist/histories/Oldcivilization/Egyptology/PlacesinHistorical/GraecoMonuments/khnumtemple.htm (341 words)

	RealMagick Article: Khnum/Khenmew by Mirjam
		At Esna he was the creator of all beings and gods; Re - the sun, Nut - the skies;, Shu - the air; Osiris - the netherworld and Geb - the earth were all included in Khnum.
		Khnum being depicted as a fourheaded ram as thought to depict this.
		Khnum being depicted as a fourheaded ram ias thought to depict this.
	realmagick.com /articles/90/390.html (424 words)

	Gods and Godesses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Khnum was a creator god, and a god of the innundation.
		Khnum was a creator-god, moulding people on a potter's wheel.
		Since potters used Nile mud, Khnum was also connected with the innundation.
	www.ancientegypt.co.uk /gods/explore/khunum.html (41 words)

	Egyptian Gods: Summaries
		Anubis was also worshipped under the form Upuaut ("Opener of the Ways"), sometimes with a rabbit's head, who conducted the souls of the dead to their judgement, and who monitored the Scales of Truth to protect the dead from the second death in the underworld.
		The scarab, or dung beetle, was considered symbolic of the sun since it rolled a ball of dung in which it laid its eggs around with it - this was considered symbolic of the sun god propelling the sphere of the sun through the sky.
		The goddess of Elephantine, and the consort of Khnum.
	www.vibrani.com /gods.htm (4173 words)

	Egyptian Seasons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Khnum was the god of the Nile and helped Egyptians in the flood season.
		Khnum was the Ancient Egyptian god of the Nile.
		In the dream, Khnum said that the Nile would flood its banks and water the crops.
	www.up140.jacksn.k12.il.us /Egypt99/Sullivan/seasons.htm (440 words)

	Khnum Egyptian Gods on Egypt Tour and Nile Cruise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Go on an Egypt tour with a Nile cruise to learn about Egyptian gods such as Khnum The Egyptians sometimes had had two eye symbols, with the left eye being the Eye of Horus, symbolising the moon, and the right eye being symbolising the Eye of Ra, or the sun.
		She was considered to be the first emanation of Tem/Ra, depicted as a woman with wings or alternately a woman with a single white ostrich feather bound to Her head.
		Khnum appeared as a ram-headed human, Khnum was worshipped most at Antinoe and Elephantine.
	www.egypttour.com.au /details/khnum-egyptian-gods.html (270 words)

	Khnum from Stuffe & Nonsense
		Khnum was one of the early creation gods of Egyptian mythology, said to have formed man of clay on a potter's wheel.
		He was shown as a ram-headed man; the ram's spiral horns growing out sideways from the head.
		Stuffe and Nonsense Stuffemal plush dolls and animal character figures are original soft sculpture designs, individually hand crafted in California by the Stuffe Staff.
	www.stuffemal.com /dolls_animal_figures/Khnum.html (220 words)

	Temple of Khnum at Esna, Egypt
		Besides Khnum, the temple was dedicated to several other deities, the most prominent of whom were Neith and Heka.
		The roof of the hall, which is still intact, is supported by four rows of six tall (twelve meters high) columns with composite floral capitals of varying design that retain some of their original painted color.
		There is also interesting text within the temple, including a pair of cyptographic hymns to Khnum, one written almost entirely with hieroglyphs of rams and other other written with crocodiles.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/templekhnum.htm (870 words)

	The God Khnum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Khnum was an ancient god of the first cataract (waterfall) of the Nile, where on the island of Elephantine, the river was said to emerge from the subterranean ocean of Nun.
		Khnum was in some traditions the maker of earth, water, and the underworld.
		He created both gods and men: he fashioned men from clay on a potter's wheel and every child born is formed by his hands.
	www.littleegypt.com /s344.html (91 words)

	Ancient Egyptian Culture
		Heqet: Frog-goddess of Antinoopolis where she was associated with Khnum; a helper of women in child-birth.
		Khnum: Ram-headed god of Elephantine, god of the Cataract-region; thought to have molded man on a potter's wheel.
		Selkis (Selkit, Selkhet, Serqet): A scorpion-goddess, identified with the scorching heat of the sun; one of the four 'protector'-goddesses, guarding coffins and Canopic jars; shown sometimes as a woman with a scorpion on her head.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/egypt/religion/godslist.html (1884 words)

	Kolob (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He is one of the creator gods of the pantheon, the same who sometimes holds a potter wheel as he fashions mankind with his own hands as if a man were a clay pot being brought to life for the first time.
		The circular hypocephalus may be a symbolic figure of the principle that everything revolves around the Lord in a course of one eternal round.
		Note well that the creator Khnum is centered in the middle of the hypocephalus and that the writings and vignettes seem to rotate around the center picture as if they were in orbit.
	www.myegyptology.net /file/id69.htm (460 words)

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