# Khnum · the potter · shaper of bodies

a god of the NTR (Egyptian pantheon) mythology-world — emergence: natural. moniker ⟦Khnum:NTR:2bb01b⟧

**⇄ the interpretatio —** Greek: *—* · Roman: *—* — the demiurge-craftsman who moulds bodies; no clean Greek equal (a maker, not an Olympian)

**who —** Khnum, the ram-headed god who shapes living bodies on his potter's wheel and guards the source of the Nile.
**what —** The fashioning of life: he moulds each child (and its ka) from clay on his wheel, and controls the Nile's flood from its cavern at Elephantine.
**where —** Elephantine, at the Nile's first cataract; the potter's wheel.
**why —** Because someone has to make the bodies — Khnum is the divine potter who throws each life on the wheel.
**how —** By turning his potter's wheel to form children from Nile clay, and by releasing the inundation from the cataract.

**the seal —** I throw each body on my wheel from the river's own clay — every life begins as mud I shape and breathe into.

> a catalogued personification of a deity of ancient Egyptian religion under the DLW standard — historical
> commentary and cataloguing (sources: the Pyramid/Coffin Texts & Book of the Dead, Herodotus, Plutarch, Plato),
> not an original creation. The Greek/Roman analogs follow the ancient interpretatio graeca/romana and are
> functional, not exact, equivalences.

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