Khons
Khons is the son of Amun-Re. His statue was carried in procession during the Opet Festival along with Amun-Re and Mut.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 2300 BCE
- Attested period
- -2300 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Worshiped from the Pyramid Texts through the Ptolemaic Kingdom.
Relationships
Mentioned by
Sources
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“cult statue of “Amun-Re, supreme god, his wife Mut, and his son Khons.” The procession carried the statue for 2 km from Karnak Temple to “Luxor Temple, destination of the Opet Feast.” At the Luxor Temple, a ritual marriage ceremony took place in the Birth room between the Pharaoh and Amun-Re, spiritually linking them to ensure the Pharaoh’s fertility and reinstate the Pharaoh as the interme”
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“the temples of Khons and Opet both lie in this corner and are open to the public, though both are rarely visited, relative to the huge numbers of tourists who come to Karnak.”
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“their son was Khons (Chon or Chons), a lunar god, represented as a youth wearing the crescent and disk of the moon.”
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