Khnum, the god of the source of the river

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The Elephantine triad: Satet, Anuket and Khnum
His cult was centered on the island of Abu (Elephantine 1st nome of Upper Egypt) where he had been worshiped since the Early Dynastic period . During the New Kingdom he was worshiped there as head of a triad with his wife Satet and his daughter Anuket. He was also worshipped at Esna (Iunyt) where he was thought to be married to both Menhet and Nebtu (a local goddess) and to be the father of Heka (god of magic known as “He Who Activates the Ka”).

He was also thought to be the husband of Neith at Esna. In Antinoe (Her-wer) he was married to Heqet, the frog goddess associated with childbirth and conception. He was associated with Her-shef at Herakleopolis Magna, and was often linked to Osiris. He was sometimes associated with Isis to represent the Upper Egypt, just as Ptah-Tanen was associated with Nepthys in representing Lower Egypt.

His name derives from the root khnem, “to join, to unite,” and with khnem, “to build”; astronomically the name refers to the “conjunction” of the sun and moon at stared seasons of the year, Khnum was the ‘Father of Fathers and the Mother of Mothers’ of the pharaoh. As a water god he was sometimes named “KebH”, meaning “purify”.

Khnum was depicted as either a ram, a man with the head of a ram, or a man with the horns of a ram. He was (very rarely) depicted with the head of a hawk, indicating his solar connections. He often wears the plumed white crown of Upper Egypt and was sometimes shown as holding a jar with water flowing out of it indicating his link with the source of the Nile. During the early period he was depicted as the early type of domesticated ram (with long corkscrew horns growing horizontally outwards from his head), but in later times was represented by the same type of ram as Amun (with horns curving inward towards him). Occasionally, he was depicted with four ram heads (representing sun god Ra, the air god Shu, the earth god Geb, and Osiris the god of the underworld ). In this form he was known as Sheft-hat.

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象形三重奏: 萨特、阿努克和赫努姆
他的崇拜集中在阿布岛（上埃及象1号），从早期王朝时期起他就一直受到崇拜，在新王国期间，他与妻子萨特和女儿安凯特一起被奉为三合会首领。 他还被崇拜在埃斯纳（尤尼特），在那里他被认为是娶了Menhet和Nebtu（当地的一位女神），并且是Heka（被称为"激活卡"的魔法之神）的父亲。

在埃斯纳，他也被认为是 Neith 的丈夫。 在安提诺埃（赫尔维尔）他娶了赫克特，青蛙女神与分娩和受孕有关。 他与赫拉克洛波利斯大教堂的赫谢夫有联系，经常与奥西里斯有关。 他有时与伊希斯联合代表上埃及，就像普塔-塔南与尼提斯联合代表下埃及一样。

他的名字来源于"加入，团结"这个词根，和"建立"，天文数字上，这个名字指的是太阳和月亮在一年四季的"结合"，Khnum是法老的"父亲和母亲的母亲"。 作为水神，他有时被称为"KebH"，意思是"净化"。

赫南被描绘成公羊、有公羊头的人、有公羊角的人。 他（很少）被描绘成鹰头，表明他与太阳有关。 他经常戴着上埃及羽毛状的白色皇冠，有时还被展示成一个罐子，罐子里流着水，表明他与尼罗河的源头有联系。 在早期，他被描述为驯养公羊的早期类型（长木塞角从头部向外水平生长），但在后期，与阿蒙相同类型的公羊（角向内弯曲）。 偶尔，人们会画他四个公羊头（代表太阳神拉、空气神舒、大地神格布和冥界之神奥西里斯）。 在这种形式下，他被称为 Sheft-hat。

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The belief in gods in ancient Egypt showed a belief in nature

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The relationship between the gods is so complicated that the description of the characters is meticulous.

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The multiple existence of ancient Egyptian gods is a kind of feedback of people's faith

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Khnum was one of the gods who was thought to have helped Ra on his perilous nocturnal journey through the underworld

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Khnum is known as the "god of potters" and "god of creation", creating life from clay, and the ram god related to water, which makes me fire my imagination. Do ancient myths contain universal philosophies?