Egypt · The Nile's source, and the making of bodies
Khnum ẖnmw
- God of
- The Nile's source, and the making of bodies
- Recognised by
- A ram-headed man, often at a potter's wheel
- Chief cult centre
- Elephantine
He shapes each child and its ka on a potter's wheel from Nile clay, which is as literal an account of creation as Egypt offers and sits beside Ptah's abstract one without either being thought to cancel the other.
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