Khnum
Americannoun
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The sheep was great in Thebes, and there was the sacred city of the ram-headed Khnum or Ammon Ra.**
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew
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)
Here too we find travellers from Palestine writing of themselves "Blessed be Augah of Isis," or "Blessed be Abed-Nebo of Khnum"!
From Patriarchal Palestine by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
Thou art my Ka in my body, the god Khnum who makes strong my limbs.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
Nit of Sais or Hathor of Dendera differed in no way, so far as their divine powers were concerned, from Ptaḥ of Memphis or Khnum of the Cataract.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
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