Weekly Challenge (Catch Up) - Moon Deities of Ancient Egypt

Ooo :partying_face: @Cosmic_Curiosity thank you for this! I’m happy that you were able to write it up AND use it for a challenge entry :hugs: I did add it to the Egyptian Deities Master Post & Bonus! I got to add another section for Thoth! :smiling_face:

I enjoyed reading the post, as I was reading about the Lunar associations, it sort of clicked :bulb: that Thoth was a Lunar Deity :full_moon: which was against the grain so to speak when it came to other cultures & their lunar deities. I had read previously about him being associated with Mathematics & then finding out about the ibis & being associated with scribes was really interesting! Especially why the ibis was used for his depictions. Also, it’s a lovely bird too :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

I liked that you specified how Egyptians didn’t necessarily view their deities as animals but that they used animals in their depictions, representations, & imagery more to show what the particular deities have for attributes that they connected animals to.

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