Khonsou
Khonsou is a god of the Egyptian Mythologie.
In the lunar beginning divinity whose name meant “ the traveller ” and who fought against the forces of darkness at the sides of Pharaon, it was then introduced into the Triade of Thèbes as wire of the god Amon and the goddess Mout.
It is represented in the shape of an young man or a child carrying a braid on the side, characteristic of the royal or divine children (see for example Harpocrate), of a mummy or a god Hiéracocéphale capped lunar disc on a crescent of the moon.
Tardily, he becomes a god healer known under the name of “ Khonsou the Adviser ”.
The Ir (sight) is sometimes associated for him.
The legend of Khonsou and the princess of Hatti
During, Egypt had to deliver a long war against the Empire hittite. The conflict finished, in 1256 av. J. - C., by the marriage of Ramsès {{II}} with the girl of the sovereign hittite, king de Hatti.
Ramsès was fascinated by the beauty of his new wife. It conferred “the Nefu-Re” title to him, or “Large Royal Wife”. However, shortly after its arrival in the Egyptian court, Ramsès celebrated a festival with Thèbes in the honor of the god Amon when a messenger arrived of the court of king de Hatti. It brought bad news. Bentresh, the younger sister by Nefu-Re, was seriously sick and Hittites were unable to cure it. The Pharaon convened his best doctors and magicians to take their opinion on the nature of the disease. Since the latter were unable to formulate a satisfactory diagnosis, the sovereign decided to send his personal doctor to examine his sister-in-law.
Three years later, the doctor was of return. The princess, announced it, was had by malignant spirits and only a divine intervention could cure it. Ramsès consulted the priests of the sanctuary of Khonsou, in Thèbes, and beseeched their assistance. In their turn, the priests questioned Khonsou, whose statue granted its assistance. But it arose a theological problem. In its function of god of the Fertility, Khonsou was to remain in Thèbes. The priests then created a new figuration of Khonsou, with the gifts of exorcist. Protected by powerful amulets (failing this whose the god could have taken shade of sound alter ego), the statue of new Khonsou took the road for the capital hittite, in a powerful caravan of carriages. Seventeen months later, the statue reached its destination and cures Bentresh without blow to férir. The father of Bentresh if was impressed by the capacities of the statue which he refused to let set out again and made him build a sanctuary. There the divine statue remained three years and nine months until king de Hatti does a dream: Khonsou flew away of its sanctuary in the shape of a gold sparrowhawk, based on the king before rising in the sky and took the course of Egypt. The king understood that moment had just returned the statue, accompanied by one tribute to the measurement of the rendered service. Of return to Thèbes, the statue alleviated its prototype by offering the treasure hittite to him (of which it however had withdrawn some parts of value to compensate the clergy for its own deserted sanctuary with Hatti).
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