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God Khnum "Khnemu" | Facts The Egyptian Gods and Goddesses | God of the source of the Nile and fertility in Pharaonic Civilization & Most Important Ancient Egypt Deities, Mythology Symbols, Definition, Temple, Photo and more… Hurghada lovers Offer Luxury Hurghada to Luxor Tours | El Gouna to Luxor Tours | Makadi bay to Luxor Tours | Sahl Hasheesh to Luxor Tours | Soma bay to Luxor Tours. Creation of seals (on the pottery wheel): Khnum created himself, then created the universe, creating the Earth, raising the heavens on its four pillars, creating the underworld and water, and creating the existing beings. The gods and humans formed in clay on his pottery wheel, then he created animals and even herds, he created the birds and fish and the form of male races, and brought the  females into the world. He was represented the God Khnum, sometimes, with four rams that referred to his four places of worship and the four great gods he united (Ra, Shou, Geb and Osiris). These rams referred to the four elements of nature (fire, air, earth, water) in a sign that he had control over the elements of creation. "Since the first dynasty we knew the existence of the sacred dogmas of the rams, and later the God Khnum known as the idol of Elephantine island in the first province of Upper Egypt and its sacred animal symbol ram, as well as the ram of the plant Anpetet perhaps also the ram of the city of Mendis of the sixth province of Nil of Lower Egypt. They were united or at least closely associated with a second symbol of faith of another ram, Hershaf, meaning "above his lake", and appeared in Greek as “Harsaphes "in a center of Hierakonpolis Magna, the 20th province   of Upper