Khnemu

Family: Egyptian gods · Role: god · First appears: A Legend of the God Khnemu and of a Seven Years' Famine · Part 2

In the Legend of the God Khnemu and of a Seven Years’ Famine, the speaker at Abu made a thank-offering to Khnemu, who opened his eyes and listened, saying, “I am Khnemu, who fashioned thee.” Khnemu promised Neter-Khat that he would make the Nile rise, bring fertility and end the misery and empty grain stores.

The decree exempts materials and workmen used to make and repair divine images from tithing. Neter-Khat orders a copy of the decree inscribed on a stele in Khnemu’s temple.

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Life events

• A thank-offering made Khnemu at peace with the speaker, and he opened his eyes and inclined his heart to hear.(A Legend of the God Khnemu and of a Seven Years' Famine · Part 2 · 📍 Abu)
  • “And I found the God standing in front of me, and I made him to be at peace with me by means of the thank-offering which I offered unto him, and I made prayer and supplication before him. Then he opened his eyes, and his heart was inclined [to hear] me, and his words were strong [when he said], “I am Khnemu, who fashioned thee.”
• Khnemu promised to make the Nile rise and bring fertility, ending misery and empty grain stores.(A Legend of the God Khnemu and of a Seven Years' Famine · Part 2)
  • “I will make Hap (i.e., the Nile) rise for thee, and [in] no year shall [he] fail, and he shall spread himself out in rest upon every land. Green plants and herbs and trees shall bow beneath [the weight of] their produce. The goddess Renenet shall be at the head of everything, and every product shall increase by hundreds of thousands, according to the cubit of the year. The people shall be filled, verily to their hearts' desire, “and everyone. Misery shall pass away, and the emptiness of their store-houses of grain shall come to an end. The land of Ta-Mert (i.e., Egypt) shall come to be a region of cultivated land, the districts [thereof] shall be yellow with grain crops, and the grain [thereof] shall be goodly. And fertility shall come according to the desire [of the people], more than there hath ever been before.”
• The decree exempts materials and workmen needed to make and repair divine images from tithing.(A Legend of the God Khnemu and of a Seven Years' Famine · Part 3)
  • With: king
  • “And there shall be an inspector over the weighing of the gold, and silver, and copper, and real (i.e., precious) stones, and the [other] things, which the metal-workers require for the House of Gold, “and the sculptors of the images of the gods need in the making and repairing of them, and [these things] shall be exempted from tithing, and the workmen also.”
• The king orders a copy of the decree inscribed on a stele in Khnemu's temple.(A Legend of the God Khnemu and of a Seven Years' Famine · Part 3)
  • With: king
  • “And a copy of this decree shall be inscribed upon a stele, [which shall be set up] in the holy place, according to the writing of the [original] document which is cut upon wood, and [figures of] this god and the overseers of the temple shall be [cut] thereon.”

A Legend of the God Khnemu and of a Seven Years' Famine · Part 2

• protégé: Neter-Khat “I will make Hap (i.e., the Nile) rise for thee”

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Extracted from the original text of Legends of the Gods. Made with Rho MD.