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ID: 901001638 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001638 | Record Type: Religion/Mythology/Legend |
Khnum (Egyptian diety) | ||
Note: Ancient Egyptian god of fertility, associated with water and with procreation. Khnum is depicted as a ram with horizontal twisting horns or as a man with a ram’s head. Because it was believed that Khnum ceated mankind out of clay, later representations show Khnum using a potter’s wheel. The god’s first main cult centre was Herwer, near Al-Ashmūnayn in Middle Egypt and from the New Kingdom (1539–1075 BCE) on, he was the god of the island of Elephantine, where he formed he formed a triad of deities with the goddesses Satis and Anukis. Khnum also had an important cult at Esna | |
Khnum (Egyptian diety) (preferred,English-P,D,N) | |
Khnemu (Egyptian diety) (English,U,N) | |
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P) | ||
....<Egyptian iconography> (P) | ||
........<Egyptian characters> (P) | ||
............Khnum (Egyptian diety) (I) | ||
role/characteristic is .... deity | |
.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT) |
culture/religion is .... Ancient Egyptian (culture) | |
.....(Mediterranean (Early Western World), Early Western World, styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT) |
deity of .... water (inorganic material) | |
.....(inorganic material, materials by composition, materials (substances), Materials (hierarchy name)) (AAT) |
deity of .... fertility | |
.....(biological concepts, scientific concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT) |
symbolic attribute is .... ram (animal) | |
.....(sheep by sex or age, Ovis (genus), Bovidae (family), Artiodactyla (order), Mammalia (class), Vertebrata (subphylum), Chordata (phylum), Animalia (kingdom), Eukaryota (domain), living organisms (entities), Living Organisms (hierarchy name)) (AAT) |
symbolic attribute is .... potter's wheel | |
.....(tools and equipment for clayworking, equipment by material processed, equipment, Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)) (AAT) |
Khnum (Egyptian diety) | |
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) "Khnum," accessed 31 October 2016 | |
Khnemu (Egyptian diety) | |
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) "Khnum," accessed 31 October 2016 | |
................ Bunson, Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (2002) 202 | |
................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) "Khnum," accessed 31 October 2016 | |
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