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 | | His consort was sometimes called Amaune (feminine'of Amun), but more usually Mut, " mother ": she was human-headed, wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, and their son was Khons (Chon or Chons), a lunar god, represented as a youth wearing the crescent and disk of the moon. |
 | | The cult of the supreme god spread throughout Egypt and was carried by the Egyptian conquerors into other lands, Syria, Ethiopia and Libya, and was accepted by the natives both in Ethiopia and in the Libyan cases, where civilization was low and Egyptian influence permanent. |
 | | Such was its reputation among the Greeks that Alexander journeyed thithers after the battle of Issus, and during his occupation of Egypt, in order to be acknowledged the son of the god. |
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