2025 Jun 29: Old Khepsu

 Old Khepsu is the name of the largest river of the lands of the Reptilians, and the god that dwells in its waters. While usually calm, once a year the river floods and buries everything in its path with rich black sediment, which allows for the cultivation of the best crops in the known world. However woe betide anyone caught in these floodwaters, as they will be swept along, and their mangled corpses shall be a feast for the vultures and the crocodiles.

Old Khepsu as a god is usually calm and benevolent, however he is sometimes suddenly overcome with rage, then he just attacks and destroys everything around him. According to legend, he sometimes even strikes the face of Atar-Numash, so hard he stars to cry. This is why it sometimes rains, even when the sun is shining. After he calms down, he is always very apologetic, and it is believed that his blessing of good harvest after the flood is is his way of making up for his acting in anger.

To his clerics Old Khepsu bestows the power to mete out fortune or misfortune to others as they wish. They can also call upon creatures of the water in their our of need, and along Old Khepsu's shore they might cause the river to ebb or surge, or even to turn the color of blood. He is quite knowledgeable in matters mundane and magical, and unlike other gods, he shares this knowledge readily with his clerics.

He is most often depicted as an old man carrying papyrus scrolls, flanked by an otter and a crocodile. The Reptilians depict him with the head of either an otter (when he is calm) or a crocodile (when he is angry). His holy symbols are the otter, the scroll, and three stalks of wheat under a wave.

He has no holy days, however those that live near his shore will hold festivals when his waters flood, so that he may calm down sooner. 

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