Khnum

[khnoom]

noun

Egyptian Religion.

1. a god in the form of a ram who created human beings from clay on a potter's wheel.

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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The sheep was great in Thebes, and there was the sacred city of the ram-headed Khnum or Ammon Ra.**

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Ammon is an adjective = "hidden," and is connected with the ram-headed Khnum, and with the hawk-headed Ra, the sun.

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He remarks that the people of the Theban nome whose god, Ammon Ra, or Khnum, was ram-headed, abstain from sheep and sacrifice goats; but the people of Mendes, whose god was goat-headed, abstain from goats, sacrifice sheep, and hold all goats in reverence.*

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