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| Amun king of the gods put Amenhetep III to the throne |
In the
New Kingdom the divinity of
Amun was enhanced by reading him as a mysterious demonstration of the ancient sun-god of Heliopolis. The name of the deity is given the additional symbolisation of the solar disk. The solar connexion is found in imagery of Amun and the lion, the sun-gods creature: Amun is called a fierce red-eyed lion. Amun as sun-deity is the substance of a description practiced to him in
the Book of the Dead as eldest of the gods of the northeastern sky. During the rule of
Amenhotep III in the
18th Dynasty two brothers, Suti and Hor, were architects took in the memorial of Amun now named
Luxor temple. On a granite stella in the British Museum they illustrate the important and it led to Amun being involved as the pre-eminent god of the pantheon. His style king of the deities (first occurrent in the White Chapel of
Senwosret I of the twelfth Dynasty) illustrates his superb status. The Egyptian title for Amun-Ra king of the gods was Amon-Ra nesu netjeru which lies down the Greek version of Amonrasonther. This sovereignty is also got by an name first found in the
Middle Kingdom, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands (i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt are associate his swing). Later it was natural for the Greek writers like Herodotus and Plutarch to rationalise Amun by tracing that he was Olympian Zeus among the Egyptians. This recognition with the Greek deity is held into the Roman period. Minings at Tell el-Farama south-east of Port Said revealed evidence of a temple to the chief deity Zeus Casius. The site is to be equated with ancient Pelusium, a name deriving from the Egyptian description thinking house of Amun
