Khensu or Khonsu

IMG:file73.png: The third god in the Theban triad, the son of Amen and Mut. He is a lunar deity, and as such is confused, and sometimes, as at Edfu, identified with Thoth. He occasionally a umed a solar character, and is then represented with a hawk-head, and was emblematic of the rising sun. He was also an exorcisor of spirits in later times, as we find from a tale of the XXth Dynasty, where we read of his image being sent to Bekhten to cure a po e ed prince there. He is represented as tightly swathed, wearing the side lock of youth. His proper symbol, worn on the head, is the sun disk in the crescent, and he carries a staff on which are the emblems of life, stability and dominion.