god Khnum

Title	The Great Potter
Cult Center	Elephantine
Gender	Male
Patron - Dominion	Pottery Nile Inundation and fertility
Dedicated temples	Elephantine temple Esna Temple
Appearance	man with a ram head with recently created children standing on his potter wheel

One of the oldest gods of Upper Egypt from Thebes to Philae

Khnum is the creator god of the Elephantine Creation Myth

His cult was popular before the cult of Ra eclipsed it

He made sure that the right amount of silt was released into the water during the inundation

Creator of people, he sculpted them out of clay from the Nile out of his potter wheel, and held them up so that Ra could shine his life giving rays upon them.

His wife was the goddess Satis and their daughter was Anuket goddess of the first cataract.

Alternatively in Esna, he was the father of Heka, the personification of magic, and husband of Neith.

He remained an important god in some semi Christian sects intil the 3rd Certury A.D.