Egyptian creator god depicted as a man with horizontal wavy ram horns often seated at a potter’s wheel. The engraved monument Stele at Sehel Island tells of a seven-year famine during reign of Djoser. Imhotep advised the king to repair the temples to Khnum and thus to end the famine. See Imhotep.

A ram headed god. His name means to create. He was the creator of all things that are and all things that shall be. He created the gods and he fashioned mankind on a potters wheel.

From Egyptian ẖnmw (reconstructed as Khenmu or Khnemu), derived from ẖnm meaning "to unite". This was the name of an early Egyptian god associated with fertility, water and the Nile. [..]