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Khonsu (Ancient Egyptian: ḫnsw; also transliterated Chonsu, Khensu, Khons, Chons, Khonshu or Konshu; Coptic: Ϣⲟⲛⲥ, romanized: Shons) is an ancient Egyptian god of the Moon. His name means 'traveller', and this may relate to the perceived nightly travel of the Moon across the sky.
[13] [14] [15] The 1938 short story "Magician of Dream Valley" by Raymond Z. Gallun portrays energy-based life on the Moon, as does the 1960 short story "The Trouble with Tycho" by Clifford D. Simak. [16] The titular mission of the 2011 film Apollo 18 is a secret project to investigate alien life in the form of lunar rocks. [17] [18]
He was also a god of time. The centre of his cult was at Thebes which was where he took place in a triad with Amun and Mut. Khonsu was also heavily associated Thoth who also took part in the measurement of time and the moon. Nzambici: Bakongo: She is the eternal God of Essence, as well as Goddess of Moon, Earth and Sky Mother Thoth: Egyptian
Hans Christian Andersen's 1838 "The Galoshes of Fortune": the magic shoes take a watchman to the Moon, which he finds terrible. Illustration by Helen Stratton. Pan Twardowski, a sorcerer who made a deal with the Devil [3] in Polish folklore and literature, is depicted as having escaped from the Devil who was taking him to Hell and ending up living on the Moon, his only companion being a spider ...
From ancient times, the Turkic people believed that humans had secret lunar powers (Aisar or Aysar). Female pregnancy lasts about nine lunar months, and women often deliver during a full moon. The three phases of the moon were also symbolic. It was believed that at "Ai Naazy" (new moon) the Moon symbolized a growing young child, who is pure and ...
There was once a magma-filled ocean on the south pole of the moon, scientists recently discovered after analyzing lunar soil that revealed ancient information about the moon's origin. The study of ...
The earliest English account of the story as a separate fable appears in Roger L'Estrange's Fables of Aesop (1692) under the title "The Moon Begs a New Gown", but in his case the moral given is that "the Humour of many People [is] to be perpetually Longing for something or other that's not to be had", since "there is no Measure to be taken of an Unsteady Mind". [4]
The moon’s violent birth may have happened 40 million years earlier than scientists previously thought. That finding is based on remnants of molten crystals recovered from the moon’s surface ...