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Who was this deity?
In both Amos and Acts this god is alluded to as
>"the star of your god"
that is the star of the Israelites god.
But what star did Remphan personify?
In the Testament of Solomon, Remphan is rendered Raphan concerning whom Solomon was said to have built a temple in conjunction with one to Baal/Moloch.
The Testament of Solomon is of Jewish origin but as we now have it, it is laden with many Christian layers.
This is noted here because the name Raphan (or Ramphan or Rrephan) is unknown in Hebrew and must therefore have been introduced, or transliterated, by one of the Christian editors.
some believe Raphan (or Rephaim) is a reminiscence of a Hebrew word meaning "the shades," but it is more than probable that the name Remphan is nothing but a mistransliteration into Greek of the same Chiun in the King James version of Amos.
some interpreted the star of Chiun as Lucifer which is popularly, but erroneously, believed to have stood for the planet Venus.
But correctly stated, Chiun was the Assyrian name for Saturn, the same as the Syriac Kewan (and the very Hebrew Khevan).