Reckoners of the Same Nights

Two figures in the Egyptian sources count the same thing. Khonsu is the moon that crosses; Thoth is the moon that records, the scribe who reckons time and keeps the accounts of the gods. Egypt did not resolve this — both stay lunar, both appear with the crescent and disc, and in some texts their epithets overlap. It is a normal feature of that religion rather than a contradiction wanting a fix: functions attach to more than one figure, and local priesthoods had their own reasons for it. The moon mattered enough to belong to two gods at once.