Amun as a Creator

The gods  temple  Ipet-Sut  is  predicted  by Hatshepsut on her obelisk hill of the start,  indicating  that  it  was  the set  where  Amun  took  the  cosmos into existence. Hymns from the late New Kingdom emphasise the role of Amun as a primeval deity, making sky and earth by his  thoughts.  The  phenomenon of  the annual Nile flood, and the blowing of  the  north  wind  upriver  derive  from Amuns nature as elusive to determine  as the air, which, alike all the other gods, is but  a  reflection of the  deep Amun. Guess on Amun as a universal  super  deity  brought  the  Egyptian theologiser very close to the concept of monotheism, although they never considered the steps that would exclude all other deities from the temples. The worship of Amun in this prospect was henotheism in Egyptian terms  turning ones tightness onto the  superb  deity  while  not  denying  that he has provided a myriad of other God to be honoured  as  tell  of  his breeding power.

Amun King of the Gods

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

Amun in Greece Period

Zeus (picture of Amun in Greece Period)

Amun taken a temple and a statue, the talent of Pindar (d. 443 BC), at Thebes, and  opposite  at  Sparta,  the  indweller  of  which,  as Pausanias says, conferred with the oracle of God Amun in Libya from early times more than the other Greeks. At Aphytis, Chalcidice, Amun was worshipped, from the time of Lysander (d. 395 BC), as zealously as in Ammonium.  Pindar  the  poet  respected  the  god  with  a  hymn.  At Megalopolis  the  god  was  described  with  the  head  of  a  ram, and the Greeks of Cyrenaica dedicated at Delphi a chariot with a statue of Amun God.

Such was its report among the Classical Greeks that Alexander the Macedonian journeyed  there  after  the  battle  of  Issus  and  during  his occupation of Egypt, where he was express "the son of Amun" by the prophet.  Alexander  thenceforth  taken  himself  divine.  Even  during this  occupation,  Amun,  named  by  these  Greeks  as  a  form  of Zeus, continued to be the serious local deity of Thebes.

Several words derive from Amun via the Greek shape, Amun, such as ammonia and ammonite. The Romans named the ammonium chloride they  gathered  from  deposits  near  the  Temple  of  Jupiter  Amun  in ancient Libya sal ammoniacus (salt of Amun) because of propinquity to the nearby temple. Ammonia, as well as being the chemical, is a knees name in the foraminifera. Both these foraminiferans (crushed Protozoa) and ammonites (extinct shelled cephalopods) bear spiral plates resembling a ram's, and Amun's, horns. The regions of the hippocampus in the brain are visited the cornu ammonis literally "Amun's Horns", attributable to the horned show of the dark and light bands of multicellular layers.