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Iah (Ancient Egyptian:jꜥḥ; 𓇋𓂝𓎛𓇹,Copticⲟⲟϩ) is alunar deity inancient Egyptian religion. The wordjꜥḥ simply means "Moon". It is also transcribed asYah,Jah,Aa, orAah.[2][3]
Iah was an early personification of the Moon in Ancient Egypt, He is the male moon god that preceded Khonsu, Iah whose name simply means “Moon.” He appears in texts from the Middle Kingdom and later became associated with Thoth and Khonsu. Iah is depicted in human form as a beautiful young man with skin as fair and white as milk in stories as could be represented as a human figure wearing a lunar disk and crescent. In later times, his role diminished as Khonsu absorbed many[4][5][6][7][8][9]By theNew Kingdom (16th century to 11th century BC) he was less prominent than other gods with lunar connections,Thoth andKhonsu. As a result of the functional connection between them, he could be identified with either of those deities.
Iah was sometimes considered an adult form of Khonsu and was increasingly absorbed by him. He continued to appear inamulets and occasional other representations, similar to Khonsu in appearance, with the same lunar symbols on his head and occasionally the same tight garments. He differed in usually wearing a full wig instead of achild's sidelock, and sometimes theAtef topped by another symbol.[10] As time went on, Iah also became Iah-Djehuty, meaning "god of the new moon".[11] In this role, he assumed the lunar aspect ofThoth (also known asDjehuty), who was the god of knowledge, writing and calculation. The segments of the moon were also used as fractional symbols in writing.[12]
Iah was also assimilated withOsiris, god of the dead, perhaps because, in its monthly cycle, the Moon appears to renew itself.
Aa (Mesopotamia): Also known as: Aah, Aos, Iah, Khensu, Sirdu, Sirrida. Aa as a Chaldean deity was known as Aos. Her emblem is a disk with eight rays. As the Akkadian and Sumerian moon god- dess she is the consort of the sun god, Shamash. In this aspect, she is the mother of Tammuz. Ra, in Egypt was called Aa (the sun), as a high or sky god. Aa or Aah is another name for the Egyptian moon god, Khensu.
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