#khnum

Relief of the god Khnum from Elephantine, Aswan

Egyptian mythology au!

Djoser, the first pharaoh of Egypt’s Third Dynasty, is remembered as a deeply devoted ruler. Living in Memphis, he ruled in a city where Ptah was the chief deity. Yet, we know little about which gods Djoser personally favored.

However, centuries later, in the Ptolemaic period, a monument known as the "Famine Stela" was carved near the sacred island of Elephantine to celebrate an important connection to a certain deity.

The inscriptions in the stela tell a legendary tale about Djoser, who faced seven years of famine as the Nile failed to flood. According to this story, the desperate king dreamed of the gods, who revealed that only Khnum could save Egypt from famine.

The story continues with Djoser traveling to Elephantine, honoring the ram-headed god and his divine family, and ordering the construction of temples in gratitude. In return, Khnum promised to release the life-giving waters to rescue Egypt.

Though this stela was written over two thousand years after Djoser’s reign, it immortalizes him as a devoted monarch to the gods of Egypt.

And yet, Djoser’s reign also saw the rise of a new god: his chief architect and vizier, Imhotep, the genius behind the Step Pyramid of Saqqara, was so revered for his wisdom that he was later deified as the god of architecturein what looked like a sacred age in Egyptian history.

My latest versions of Netjeru

Turn, turn, turn,

the potter's wheel goes,

the God's nimble hands shaping and crafting our very being.

O' Khnum,

Great Potter of the Netjeru,

You shape my body,

you firmed my legs.

My heart was placed it's place by your hands.