Kneph is a motif in
ancient Egyptian religious art, variously a winged egg, a globe surrounded by one or more serpents, or
Amun in the form of a serpent called Kematef.[1] Some
Theosophical sources tried to syncretize this motif with the deity
Khnum, along with
Serapis and
Pluto.[2][3] Under the Greek theonym Chnuphis, this figure adopts a serpent-bodied, lion-headed ("leontoeidic") visage, being particularly common in magical artifacts in Late Antiquity.[4] It is by proxy frequently associated with the
GnosticDemiurge.