Iah

Iah is what happens to a god who is only a noun. The word means 'moon', it gets used as a divine name, and then two better-established gods — Thoth, who counts time, and Khonsu, who travels the sky at Thebes — take the moon over between them and Iah is left as an element in compounds and in personal names. The registry already held Ahmose, whose name means 'the moon is born'; it did not hold the moon.

Domains

• moon

Relations

• counterpart of: KhonsuAbsorbed into Khonsu, who takes over the moon at Thebes, and into Thoth's lunar side; the compound names Khonsu-Iah and Iah-Thoth are where he survives.Reference treatment of Iah and of his absorption into the lunar gods Khonsu and Thoth. (secondary)

Sources

• Iah is the personified moon in Egyptian religion, an older lunar god absorbed into Thoth and Khonsu and surviving in compound names and in royal names such as Ahmose.: Reference treatment of Iah, his name and his absorption into the other lunar gods. (secondary)