Talk:Khonsu
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how are pictorial representations of khonsu seperated from those of horus? they look very similar. also how are the representations of the moon above a deity's head distinguished from a sun above it? pls authoritative/knowledgable replies only backed up with reliable source web pages if pos. what about the similarities with amun-ra as a kind of horus-ra aswell? can anyone help demystify this? Kentmage (talk) 01:19, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
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btw I think this is a great article and it may be impossible to find back-up reference after 1000's of years. After a bit of thought I have come back here with a theory or POV, but please forgive my luxury of making an unsubstantiated theory as there are not huge numbers of people onto this topic to make a large enough minority view of this subject count, but could it be that through the undulating fortunes of Egypt that the people of that land wanted a consistant image of there deity but because of the fashions of nature, the fashions of the culture changed deity name and hence deity family tree position? I also noticed the cresent shape underneath the moon symbol so maybe that is the feature that differentiates sun from moon. Perhaps the only way to distinguish between some of the more similar deities is to translate nearby heiroglyphs or other nearby(geographical and chronological) texts. Although great changes in image of deity may have been fashionable to some in Egypt at the time some may have been of a more conservative psyche. Kentmage (talk) 05:35, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
