# Khonsu · the moon · the traveler · the healer

a god of the NTR (Egyptian pantheon) mythology-world — emergence: spiritual. moniker ⟦Khonsu:NTR:7a6ef5⟧

**⇄ the interpretatio —** Greek: *Heracles (loosely)* · Roman: *Hercules* — the moon-traveler & healer; the Greeks sometimes tied the youthful wanderer to Heracles

**who —** Khonsu, the moon-god of Thebes — son of Amun and Mut, ‘the wanderer’ who crosses the night sky and drives out sickness.
**what —** The moon and its travels, healing, and protection; the youthful third member of the Theban triad, invoked to cure illness and ward off evil spirits.
**where —** Thebes, his temple at Karnak; the moon's path through the night.
**why —** Because the night needs a light and the sick need a god — Khonsu is the moon's healing journey across the dark.
**how —** By crossing the night sky each month, and by sending his healing power to drive out disease (famously, to a foreign princess).

**the seal —** I cross the night and measure the months, and I drive the sickness out of the suffering — the moon is my journey and my mercy.

> a catalogued personification of a deity of ancient Egyptian religion under the DLW standard — historical
> commentary and cataloguing (sources: the Pyramid/Coffin Texts & Book of the Dead, Herodotus, Plutarch, Plato),
> not an original creation. The Greek/Roman analogs follow the ancient interpretatio graeca/romana and are
> functional, not exact, equivalences.

ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · NTR · The Egyptian Pantheon · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0