efly familiar as the third member of
the Theban triad. As such he is represented as a youthful god, wearing
a skull-cap surmounted by the moon. His cult was revived and became
popular in Ptolemaic times. A curious story about the sending of his
statue to Mesopotamia to heal a daughter of the king of Bakhtan is
related upon a stele that purports to date from the Ramesside period:
it has been proved to be a pious fraud invented by the priests not
earlier than the Greek period.

HATHOR, whose name means "house of Horus," was at all times a very
important deity. She is depicted as a cow, or with a broad human
countenance, the cow's ears just showing from under a massive wig.
Probably at first a goddess of the sky, she is early mentioned in
connexion with Re. Later she was often identified with Isis, and her
name was used to designate foreign goddesses like those of Puoni and
Byblus. Unlike most cosmic deities, she was worshipped in many
localities, chief among which was Dendera, where her magnificent
temple, of Ptolemaic date, still stands. "The seven Hathors" is a name
given to certain fairies, who appeared shortly after the birth of an
infant, and predicted his future.

KHNUM or KHNOUM, a ram-headed god, whose principal place of worship
was the island of Elephantine (there associated with Satis and
Anukis), but also revered elsewhere, e.g. together with Nebtu in Esna.
He enjoyed great repute as a creator, and was supposed to use the
potter's wheel for the purpose. In this capacity he is sometimes
accompanied by the frog-headed goddess Heket.

MONTH, a hawk-headed god of the Thebaid: in Thebes itself his cult was
superseded by that of Ammon, but it persisted in Hermonthis. He was
often given the solar attributes, and was credited as a great warrior.

MIN, the god of Coptos and Panopolis (Akhmim), seems to have been
early looked upon as a deity of the harvest and crops. His cult dates
from the earliest times. Represented as ithyphallic, with two tall
plumes on his head, the right arm upraised and bearing a scourge. In
old times he is identified with Horus: later Ammon was confused with
him, and depicted in his image.

NECHBET (Nekhbi, Nekhebi), the vulture-goddess of El Kab, called
Eileithyia by the Greeks. She gained an ascendancy as patroness of the
south at the time when the two kingdoms were striving for the mastery.
It is as such, in opposit