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.
Satet's temple at Elephantine was aligned so that the light of Sopdet, the star Sirius, would pierce its inner sanctuary at the heliacal rising that heralded the annual flood — the archer goddess sending the waters northward at the star's command.
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