Khnum was the old god of creation and came from the island of Elefantine at Aswan where he guarded the first cataract. His consorts were Atet and Satet, making the "triad of Elefantine". In one legend he created mankind and all other living creatures, on his potter's wheel from mud from the Nile. He was popular nation wide from the third dynasty and his cult also spread southwards. He was seen as a man with a lion's or ram's head with a feathered crown, wavy horns and the sun disc, or just horns and a single feather. |
