God Hapi

God Hapi of the Southand North Egypt

Canopic Jar of Hapi (the baboon)

God Hapi the baboon headed son of Horus maintained the lungs of the went and was in turn saved by the goddess Nephthys. The spelling of his name admits a hieroglyphic which is thought to be linked with guidance a boat, although its exact nature is not experienced. For this ground he was sometimes connected with piloting, although early addresses call him the great runner: "You are the great offset; come, that you may join up my father N and not be extended in this your name of Hapi, for you are the greatest of my children  so says Horus" In Spell 151 of the Book of the Dead Hapi is given the been words to say: "I have come to be your protection. I have held your head and your branches for you. I have smitten your enemies below you for you, and given you your head, evermore". Spell 148 in the Book of the Dead directly associates all four of Horus's sons, named as the four pillars of Shu and one of the  four rudders of heaven, with the four important points of the compass. Hapi was affiliated  with  the north.

God Imhotep

God Imhotep

Imhotep was a high officer in the court of King Djoser (the third Dynasty)  who after  exaltation  becomes  the  embodiment  of  scribal  wisdom  and,  as  son  of Ptah,  of  superb  architectural  and  creative acquisition. Statue  fragments  attest  that  Imhotep was  given  the  extreme  privilege  of  his name  being  carved  aboard  that  of Djoser Netjerykhet himself. He took the offices  of  chief  executive  (vizier)  and master  sculptor    the  Egyptian  priest Manetho, who write in Greek a history of Egypt  in  the  third  century  BC,  credits Imouthes (i.e. Imhotep) with the design of  the  technique  of  building  with  cut stone. It is future he was the architect who planned  Egypts  first  big scale  stone memorial: the Step Pyramid at Saqqara. Afterwards  his  death  Imhotep is remembered in Middle and New Kingdom scribal reports as the author of a book of direction a well-experienced genre of Egyptian  literature although the one referable to Imhotep has not went. In the Late Period bronzes of Imhotep show him  seated in scribal strength with a papyrus-roll open crossways his knees. This fear for him leads to his apotheosis  an highly rare phenomenon in ancient Egypt (compare Amenhotep-Son-of-Hapu, Peteese and Pihor,  and  pharaoh sections  titled  Living  king deified through ritual and Dead king deified as royal ascendents). In the Ptolemaic period Imhotep as a god is discovered in cult centres and temples passim Egypt:

1- Objects  devoted  in  his  name  are discovered in northwest Saqqara.

2- Inside Thebes where he was precious in conjunction  with  Amenhotep-Son-of-Hapu he has a sanctuary on the Upper Terrace of the temple at Deir el-Bahari and is defended in the temple at Deir el-Medina.

3- Iside Philae there is a chapel of Imhotep instantly before the eastern pylon of the temple of goddess Isis (See Philae Temples).

God Khnum

God Khnum

God Khnum was the ancient Egyptian God worshipped at Elephantine Island at Aswan, he was a creator deity feared as a ram. Khnum formed a triad with Satet and Anukis on Elephantine  Island.  His  name  meant  the  Molder, and he used a monkeys wheel to fashion the essential big egg  and  then  all  living  tools. Thoth aided  him  in this  constructive  shape  by  seeing  the  number  of  years assigned to each. Khnum's rage dates to Predynastic Period (earlier 3,000 B.C.E.), and the centers of his revere were  on  the Elephantine (Abu), at Biga, and at Esna (see Temple of Khnum at Esna). Khnum  was  the  deity of  the  first  Cataract of  the Nile and the deity of the deluges, associated with the goddesses Mert and Heket. He was named the Prince of the 2 Lands  and  the  Prince  of the House of Life. Khnum brought the Nile to Egypt finished two caverns out in  Aswan, where he was connected with Anukis and Satet.

Named too the Soul of Ra, Khnum wore the horns of the oldest species of rams in Egypt (Ovis longipes). At Esna, he had two different divine checks, Menhet and Neith. The  backups  at  the  Esna  temple  portray Khnums  formative  powers.  The  Famine Stella at  Sehel Island named prayers to Khnum in times of low Nile floods. Djoser (2630-2611  B.C.E.) was honored by  later  contemporaries  for  visiting  the  shrine  of  Khnum and  finish  a  shortage  in  his  reign.  The  people  of  Nubia incorporated  Khnum  into  their  cultic services  and  linked  him  with  their  God Dedun. Khnum  was  described  as  a  robust  man  with  a  rams head, hard ivory horns, dresses, the solar disk, and the Uraeus.