The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses , Devil and Demons
(Chnumu) An Egyptian god in the shape of a ram; the name itself denotes a ram. He is portrayed as a man with a ram’s head, the horns being horizontally aligned on each side. At Elephantine, Chnum was regarded as guardian of the source of the Nile and hence was donator of the life-giving waters.
His main function is a creative one: he fashions the bodies of children on a potter’s wheel and then introduces them into the mother’s womb. Hence his epithet: ‘the sculptor who gives life’. In the Hellenistic age, he played the part of a god of revelations, and he appears in the literature of necromancy as HaruerChnuph—i.e. as a variant of → Haroeris.
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