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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 3041950, member: 87200&quot;]Good point about the incomplete picture we have of pagan religions in the period just before Christianity came to the fore. </p><p><br /></p><p>The diversity of beliefs is fascinating. In the case of Egypt, there was a second/third century iteration of the god Khnum known as the horse of Coptos, a town just north of modern Luxor, which later on became identified with the horse ridden by Michael the Archangel when placed in a Christian context. </p><p><br /></p><p>Khnum&#039;s cult centers existed in Coptos (Qift), Latopolis (Esna) and Aswan. Coptos later was named Justinianopolis in the Byzantine era for a time before the Arab conquest.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not sure if the horse depicted has anything to do with Khnum, but it is interesting to postulate. Khnum was also known as the Potter, who formed man on his wheel, hence the existence of the nativist text known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_of_the_Potter" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_of_the_Potter" rel="nofollow">Oracle of the Potter</a> which predicted the demise of the Greeks and the fall of Alexandria, and interestingly the return of Agathadaemon.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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