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This is the more remarkable when Egyptology compares this with the little which it knows about the Theban triad — composed of ''Ammon'', ''Mouth'', (or ''Mout'') and their son ''Khonsoo. ''This triad was, when united, contained in the moon as their common symbol ; and when separated, it was ''Khonsoo ''who was the god, Lunus, being thus confounded with Thot and Phtah. His mother Mout''( h)'' — the name signifying ''Mother'', by the bye, not the ''moon'', which was only her Symbol — is called the “ Queen of Heaven ” ; the “ Virgin,” etc., etc., as she is an aspect of Isis, Hathor, and other mother goddesses. She was less the wife than the mother of Ammon, whose distinct title is “ the husband of his Mother.” In a ''statuette ''at Boulaq, Cairo, this triad is represented (''Number ''1981 ''Serapeum'', ''Greek Period'') as a mummy-god holding in his hand three different sceptres, and bearing the lunar disc on his head, the characteristic tress of hair showing the design of representing it as that of ''an infant ''god, or “ the Sun,” in the triad. He was the god of Destinies in Thebes, and appears under two aspects (1) as “ Khonsoo, the Lunar god, and Lord of Thebes, ''Nofir-hotpoo'' — ‘ he who is in absolute repose ’ ; and (2) as Khonsoo ''Iri-sokhroo'', or ‘ Khonsoo, who executes Destiny ’ : the former preparing the events and conceiving them for those born under his generative influence ; the latter putting them into action.” (''See Maspero’s Definitions''). Under theogonic permutations Ammon becomes Horus, HOR-AMMON, and Mout(h)-Isis is seen suckling him in a statuette of the Saitic period. (''Abydos.'') In his turn, in this transformed triad, Khonsoo becomes ''Thot-Lunus'', “ he who operates salvation.” His brow is crowned with the head of an ''ibis ''decorated with the ''lunar ''disc and the diadem called {{Style S-Small capitals|io}}-''tef''.