Imhotep’s Family Tree

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Family

• Khereduankh(parent),Ptah(parent)— Consort · Miraculous

  Late Period Memphite theology named the mortal woman Khereduankh as Imhotep's mother and Ptah as his divine father, rewriting the historical architect's origins to make Egypt's greatest builder the offspring of its creator god.

Equivalent to

• Asclepius(Greek)

  The Greeks identified the deified Egyptian healer Imhotep with their own god of medicine Asclepius, and the two cults merged at healing shrines in Ptolemaic Egypt.