{"id":996,"date":"2013-05-31T13:39:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T18:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/?p=996"},"modified":"2013-05-31T13:52:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T18:52:36","slug":"khnums-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/prayers\/khnums-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"PBP Fridays: K is for Khnum&#8217;s Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/5e\/Khnum.svg\/200px-Khnum.svg.png\" title=\"Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px\" \/> With ram-horns and ram-eyes and the breath of life,<br \/>\nKhnum sits at His potter&#8217;s wheel in Abu,<br \/>\nThe Seat of The First Time;<br \/>\nand in that place where the world was born,<br \/>\nHe spins His wheel and makes we mortals,<br \/>\nour souls and flesh as clay in His skillful hands.<\/p>\n<p>Into some sweet few, a little piece of Him slips,<br \/>\na seed and a spark of fragrant inspiration,<br \/>\nand up we rise&mdash;up she rises,<br \/>\nand her hands seek out the clay like His do,<br \/>\nand she shapes bodies and hearts like He does,<br \/>\na small and lovingly-crafted reflection of His work.<\/p>\n<p>Dua Khnum, Who shapes, Who creates!<br \/>\nDua Khnum, Who breathes into us shining life!<br \/>\nDua Khnum, Who imbues us with His craft!<\/p>\n<p><i>For <a href=\"http:\/\/ekunyisembers.com\" target=\"_blank\">Saryt<\/a>, my beloved sister and most talented and imaginative sculptor-of-creatures.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paganblogproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"This post brought to you by the Pagan Blog Project.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/images\/pbp-kemetic-slim.jpg\" alt=\"This post brought to you by the Pagan Blog Project.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With ram-horns and ram-eyes and the breath of life, Khnum sits at His potter&#8217;s wheel in Abu, The Seat of The First Time; and in that place where the world was born, He spins His wheel and makes we mortals, our souls and flesh as clay in His skillful hands. Into some sweet few, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,70],"tags":[87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}