Amun
became depicted in human form, seated
on a throne, wearing on his head a plain
deep circlet from which rise two straight
parallel plumes, possibly symbolic of
the tail feathers of a bird, a reference
to his earlier status as a wind god. Having
become more important than Menthu, the
local war god of Thebes, Menthu's authority
became said to exist because he was the
son of Amun. However, as Mut was infertile,
it was believed that she, and thus Amun,
had adopted Menthu instead. In later years,
due to the shape of a pool outside the
sacred temple of Mut at Thebes, Menthu
was replaced, as their adopted son, by
Chons, the moon god.
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