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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 53 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHONS , " he who travels by See also:

boat," perhaps originally a See also:mere epithet of the See also:moon-See also:god Ioh or See also:Thoth, is chiefly See also:familiar as the third member of the Theban triad. As such he is represented as a youthful god, wearing a See also:skull-cap surmounted by the moon. His cult was revived and became popular in Ptolemaic times. A curious See also:story about the sending of his statue to See also:Mesopotamia to heal a daughter of the See also:king of Bakhtan is related upon a See also:stele that purports to date from the Ramesside See also:period: it has been proved to be a pious See also:fraud invented by the priests not earlier than the See also:Greek period.

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