If I am right, then, it follows that temples erected to stars associated in any way with the chief cult, such as that of Amen-Rā, may either be dedicated to the god or goddess personified by the star or to the associated solar deity. Thus at Thebes we have the temple of Mut, so-called, though Mut was the wife of Amen-Rā; and the temples now under consideration, called temples of Amen, though they are dedicated to the goddess Amen-t, the wife of Amen. This may or may not be connected with the fact that the first of them was dedicated possibly before the cult of Amen alone had been intensified and expanded by the Theban priests--probably in the eighteenth dynasty--into the cult of the solstitial sun-god Amen-Rā. There is evidence, indeed, that Amen-t replaced Mut in the Theban triad. With regard to these triads, a few words may be said here from the astronomical point of view, though the subject, I am told, is one on which a great diversity of opinion exists on the part of Egyptologists. I have collected all the most definite statements I can find on this head, and it is certainly interesting to see that in many cases, though not in all, the triad seems to consist of a form of the sun-god, together with two stellar divinities, one of them certainly associated with the heliacal rising of the sun at some time of the year, and therefore a recognised form of Isis or Hathor. Thus we have:-- Place. Triad. Thebes Amen-Rā (Greater Triad) Mut χonsu (Lesser Triad) χem-Rā Tamen (? Amen-t) Harka Denderah Atmu Isis Hathor Memphis Atmu Sekhet Ptah Hermonthis Menθu-Rā Ra-Ta (= Hathor) Hor-Para Not only may this table enable us to see how Amen-t was sunk at Medînet-Habû in the term Amen, but it enables us to consider a similar case presented by those temples at Thebes, some of them associated with Khons and another with Amen, referred to in Chapter XVII. The temple of _Khons_ is among the best known at Karnak; the visitor passes it before the great temple of Amen-Rā is reached. M. Bouriant was able to prove, while we were together at Karnak, that the temple of Seti II., nearly parallel to it, was also dedicated to _Khons_; but the temple B of Lepsius, nearly parallel to both, is sacred to _Amen_. It is seen at once that the main cult is the same, although the amount of detail shown in the reference is different--we have the generic name of the triad in one case, the specific name of the member of the triad in the other.