Amun Re

Dieser Titel verweist auf die alte Schöpfergottheit Atum , die von Re in der 6. Dynastie als neues Oberhaupt der Neunheit in Heliopolis abgelöst wurde.

In griechisch-römischer Zeit kam im Zuge der Osiris-Mysterien der Choiak als Kikellia-Fest hinzu. Einen Tag zuvor, am Abend des Choiak bis zu den ersten Sonnenstrahlen des 1.

Tybi in allen Tempeln mit dem Betreten der heiligen Barke des Osiris feierten und nach Sonnenaufgang des 1. Tybi mit dem Horus-Fest am Abend fortsetzten.

Navigationsmenü Meine Werkzeuge Benutzerkonto anlegen Anmelden. Amun was a major ancient Egyptian deity who appears as a member of the Hermopolitan ogdoad the Ogdoad were eight primordial deities worshipped in Hermopolis.

Amun acquired national importance in 16th century BC after the rebellion of Thebes against the Hyksos and the rule of Ahmose I. The statue sits in the Egyptian and Sudan galleries outside the Shrine of King Taharqa in the Ashmolean, the same position it was originally found in.

A duplicate of this statue would have sat opposite to intimidate intruders and protect the shrine. Amun-Re ist erstmals in der Dynastie unter Mentuhotep II.

Ihm zu Ehren wurde die Kapelle für seinen neuen Kult erbaut. Unter Amenophis IV. Die ikonografische Darstellung symbolisierte zunächst die Attribute des Min und des Amun.

Zumeist trägt Amun-Re die Doppelfederkrone, die von einem Stirnband gehalten wird. Entsprechend erweiterte sich nun seine ikonografische Darstellung mit dem Tempel des Min und den Pflanzen des Lattichgartens.

Henri Frankfort suggested that Amun was originally a wind god and pointed out that the implicit connection between the winds and mysteriousness was paralleled in a passage from the Gospel of John : "The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going.

The tempest moves aside for the sailor who remembers the name of Amon. The storm becomes a sweet breeze for he who invokes His name Amon is more effective than millions for he who places Him in his heart.

Thanks to Him the single man becomes stronger than a crowd. While not regarded as a dynasty, the High Priests of Amun at Thebes were nevertheless of such power and influence that they were effectively the rulers of Egypt from to c.

The Amun priests owned two-thirds of all the temple lands in Egypt and 90 percent of her ships and many other resources. In the 10th century BC, the overwhelming dominance of Amun over all of Egypt gradually began to decline.

In Thebes, however, his worship continued unabated, especially under the Nubian Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt , as Amun was by now seen as a national god in Nubia.

Tantamani died BC , the last pharaoh of the Nubian dynasty, still bore a theophoric name referring to Amun in the Nubian form Amani.

In areas outside Egypt where the Egyptians had previously brought the cult of Amun his worship continued into classical antiquity.

In Nubia, where his name was pronounced Amane or Amani , he remained a national deity, with his priests, at Meroe and Nobatia , [19] regulating the whole government of the country via an oracle , choosing the ruler, and directing military expeditions.

According to Diodorus Siculus , these religious leaders were even able to compel kings to commit suicide, although this tradition stopped when Arkamane , in the 3rd century BC, slew them.

The temple was found to have been destroyed by fire and Accelerator Mass Spectrometry AMS and C14 dating of the charred roof beams have placed the construction of the most recent incarnation of the temple in the 1st century AD.

This date is further confirmed by the associated ceramics and inscriptions. Following its destruction, the temple gradually decayed and collapsed.

Iarbas , a mythological king of Libya, was also considered a son of Hammon. According to the 6th century author Corippus , a Libyan people known as the Laguatan carried an effigy of their god Gurzil , whom they believed to be the son of Ammon, into battle against the Byzantine Empire in the s AD.

The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, said: "Behold, I am bringing punishment upon Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh and Egypt and her gods and her kings, upon Pharaoh and those who trust in him.

Amun, worshipped by the Greeks as Ammon , had a temple and a statue, the gift of Pindar d. At Aphytis , Chalcidice, Amun was worshipped, from the time of Lysander d.

Pindar the poet honored the god with a hymn. At Megalopolis the god was represented with the head of a ram Paus.

Such was its reputation among the Classical Greeks that Alexander the Great journeyed there after the battle of Issus and during his occupation of Egypt, where he was declared "the son of Amun" by the oracle.

Alexander thereafter considered himself divine. Even during this occupation, Amun, identified by these Greeks as a form of Zeus , [27] continued to be the principal local deity of Thebes.

Several words derive from Amun via the Greek form, Ammon , such as ammonia and ammonite. The Romans called the ammonium chloride they collected from deposits near the Temple of Jupiter-Amun in ancient Libya sal ammoniacus salt of Amun because of proximity to the nearby temple.

Both these foraminiferans shelled Protozoa and ammonites extinct shelled cephalopods bear spiral shells resembling a ram's, and Ammon's, horns.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ancient Egyptian god. For other uses, see Amun disambiguation. For the Belgian band, see Amenra. For the American football player, see Amon-Ra St.

Typical depiction of Amun during the New Kingdom, with two plumes on his head, the ankh symbol and the was sceptre.

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