Note 132 — Part III.
P. Le Page (Peter Le Page) Renouf translation
There is no such god as Min or Minu, except as an abbreviated (or perhaps primitive) orthographic form of Amon. and bear to exactly the same relationship that , , , have to , and .
Neither Amen nor the shorter form can be the phonetic equivalent of . The image of Horus with the Flail at Edfu is described (J. de Rougé, pl. C. III) as , Horus as Amsu-Amen, and I have elsewhere quoted from Tempel insch., I, 32, the Amsu- Men [or Amen] as well as Amsu Horus.
