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Khnum

In Egyptian mythology, a ram-headed creator god with cult centres at Esna and Elephantine where he was guardian of the sources of the River Nile. He is depicted sitting at a potter's wheel with his newly created being on the wheel.



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For example, one Sepat region was called Ta Sety (today's Aswan), its emblem was The Land of the Bow, its Ntw were Anuket and her mother Satis, the wife of Khnum and its capital was Abu, known later as Elephantine.
If you asked an Egyptian 4,000 years ago, she/he would say: "God is either Re, Amun, Ptah, Khnum or Aten," If you asked a Roman 2,000 years ago, she/he would say: Zeus, but they also added Juno and Minerva, as the triad of deities.
The portrayal of a deity shaping the first humans out of clay appears in both ancient Egyptian creation mythology (where the god Khnum is the creator) and Sumerian myths (in one story the god Enki is the creator and in another the goddess Ninmah).
 
 
 
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