Khnum
Americannoun
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In return for this the king gave the priests of Khnum at Elephantinê twenty miles of river bank on either side of the island, together with tithes of all the produce of the country.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
Khnum the Creator, dweller at the Cataracts, is my favourite, and is still busy, as he looks after the rise and fall of the river.
From It Happened in Egypt by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
Philae, the Marriage Temple of Osiris and Isis—Venus of Egypt—sinks into the sea of waters poured over her by Khnum, god of the Cataracts.
From It Happened in Egypt by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
The text then goes on to declare how Khnum the Creator came to the help of the Pharaoh, and caused the Nile once more to inundate the lands.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
Professor Maspero thinks that Khnum at the Cataract may also have been originally a man; but if so, he too became a ram before the beginning of history.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
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