I. Name
The name of the Egyptian god Khonsu occurs once in the Apocrypha of the Old Testament (3 Macc. 6.38) as part of the Egyptian name of the ninth month of the year and first month of the summer season: Pachôn, i.e. ‘He of Khonsu’.
II. Identity
The god Khonsu was mostly represented in the form of a mummy with the head of a child wearing the sidelock of youth or with the head of a hawk. In both cases he usually wears the sign of the moon on his head. He was a moongod. His na…