Imhotep 伊姆贺特普：第一座金字塔的建筑师与设计者，阶梯形金字塔即出於他之手。他除了为法老王的王墓在地上建起这样雄伟的「天梯」，还将其内部设计得极端复杂。若想到安放法老木乃伊的墓
室一探究竟，你得先找到金字塔的入口，然后深入地底，走过层层迷宫才能到达。因为他这样的杰出，所以在他死后被古埃及人奉为神，受到永世的供奉。在他死后两千年，古埃及人奉他为智慧之神，有个书记甚至称他为"the inventor of the art of building with hewn stone"。根据传说，他有许多著作，日后更被称为书记的保护神，也被传为布塔神(Ptah)之子，使他具有疗伤的能力。
古夫王金字塔 Great Pyramid
Imhotep is one of the few Egyptian gods (other than the pharaohs) who was actually a real person. He was the vizier of Djoser, a pharaoh of the third dynasty. He was skilled in all areas of administration and royal enterprises. Imhotep was also a priest, writer, a doctor and a founder of the Egyptian studies of astronomy and architecture.
Imhotep was known perhaps best of all as the architect of the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, near Memphis. The Step Pyramid was the first structure created by human hands to be built entirely from stone.
It was as a wise man and scribe that Imhotep was first honored as a god. In the New Kingdom was was venerated as the patron of scribes. Scribes would pour a couple of drops of water in libation to him before beginning to write. During this time, this form of ancestor worship to Imhotep was privately practiced and his cult was similar to that of any of the dead (although more wide-spread). Also at that time, Imhotep was identified with Nefertem, the son of Ptah.
During the Late Dynastic Period when the captial of Egypt was moved to Sais, Imhotep was fully deified. He was called the son of Ptah and his mother was either Nut or Sekhmet. He was also associated with Thoth and became a patron of wisdom and medicine. Miraculous cures were often attributed to him. The Greeks identified him with Asclepius, their god of medicine and healing.
Imhotep was supposed to send sleep to those who were suffering or in pain. He was the physician to both the gods and men.
During the Ptolemaic Period, a small temple to Imhotep was built on the Island of Philae.
In art, Imhotep was portrayed as a priest with a shaven head, seated and holding a papyrus roll. Occasionally he was shown clothed in the archaic costume of a priest. He was not represented with divine insignias.
