Deity Egyptian mythology
Khnum
God of creation and the waters in Egyptian mythology
A god is known
by the accounts
that name it.
Accounts kept apart
Family
The family of Khnum
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 12
Kinship in an account 12
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (mother) Naunet Water deity of Egyptian mythology -
child of (child) Nun Egyptian deity -
parent of (father) Anuket Egyptian deity of the cataracts of the Nile and Lower Nubia in general, worshipped especially at Elephantine near the First Cataract -
parent of (father) Heka Egyptian deity -
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parent of (father) Nehebkau Egyptian deity -
parent of (child) Ra ancient Egyptian solar deity -
parent of (child) Serket Egyptian deity -
partner of (spouse) Heqet Egyptian goddess -
partner of (spouse) Menhit Egyptian deity -
partner of (spouse) Nebtuwi Egyptian deity -
partner of (spouse) Neith Egyptian goddess -
partner of (spouse) Satis ancient Egyptian goddess
Connections
How Khnum connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
12 statements on this record
- 12 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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Three thousand years of gods whose names, forms and relationships changed with the dynasty and the city.