Khnum the ram-headed potter and Satet the archer goddess of the frontier raised Anuket as their daughter on Elephantine Island, the three forming the divine triad who commanded the Nile's cataract waters at Egypt's southern gate.
Khnum and Ra merged as Khnum-Ra at Esna, where the ram-headed potter who shaped bodies on his wheel became one with the sun whose light animated them.
In divine birth scenes at Deir el-Bahri and Luxor, Khnum fashions the royal child on his potter's wheel after Amun conceives the future pharaoh by visiting the queen in her husband's form.
Khnum controls the cavern at Elephantine from which Hapi releases the annual flood, and when the ram-headed god withheld the waters for seven years, famine consumed Egypt until Pharaoh Djoser placated him with offerings.
Heket breathed life into the bodies Khnum shaped on his potter's wheel, the frog goddess animating each creation with the breath of life as the ram-headed god completed its physical form.
Khnum shaped the body on his potter's wheel while Meskhenet pronounced its destiny at birth, the ram-headed creator determining physical form and the birth goddess decreeing what that life would contain.
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