Khnum

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Khnum

Khnum (/kəˈnuːm/; also spelled Khnemu) was an Egyptian god. He was originally the god of the source of the Nile River. He was also the ram-headed god, a minor water god, the god of fertility, and the potter god of creation. He created the first children on his potter's wheel with clay from the banks of the Nile River. Khnum also controls when the Nile will flood.

Khnum Media

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  Coffin of a Ram associated with Khnum in the Egyptian Museum.

• Remains of the temple house of the Khnum Temple on Elephantine Island in Aswan, Egypt

• Khnum on the right with Menhit on the left, shown on the outside wall of the temple at Esna

• Emperor Tiberius conducted by Buto and Nekhbet to Khnum, Harpocrates at the unification symbol, third intercolumnar wall, Temple of Khnum, Esna, Egypt

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  Khnum (left) fashions the god Ihy (middle) on a potter's wheel, with the help of the goddess Heqet, Dendera Temple.

• Horus, emperor Commodus and Khnum drawing a net with birds of the marshs and fishes, inner north wall, Temple of Khnum, Esna, Egypt

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  Scene at the south wall, king offers feathers to Khnum and Nebet-uu, Temple of Khnum, Esna, Egypt

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  The Famine Stela, on the island of Sehel.