| Title | The Great Potter |
| Cult Center | Elephantine
Esna |
| Gender | Male |
| Consort | Satis, the deification of the floods of the Nile
Neith |
| Sons and Daughters | Anuket goddess of the first cataract
Heka, the personification of magic |
| Patron - Dominion | Pottery
Nile Inundation and fertility |
| Dedicated temples | Elephantine Temple
Esna Temple |
| Appearance | man with a ram head with recently created children standing on his potter wheel |
One of the oldest gods of Upper Egypt from Thebes to Philae
Khnum is the creator god of the Elephantine Creation Myth
He was also worshipped in the form of a ram, in fact, his name Khnum could mean just that. Rams were sacred to him and have been found mummified with gilded head-pieces at Elephantine
His cult was popular before the cult of Ra eclipsed it
He made sure that the right amount of silt was released into the water during the inundation
Creator of people, he sculpted them out of clay from the Nile out of his potter wheel
and held them up so that Ra could shine his life giving rays upon them.
The full name of Cheops, was "Khnum is my Protector"
He regained importance during the Ptolemaic Period and remained an important god in some semi Christian sects
until the 3rd Century A.D.
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