Amen (god)

See also: Amen

Ammon is the Greek name (which means “sandy”) of oracular god of the oasis of Amen (Siwa, Egypt), located at 500 kilometers in the west of Memphis, capital of old the Egypt.

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In the beginning, this oasis was a place of worship of a god of the tribes of the desert of Libya, personified by a ram. A dubious assumption compares this worship to that of the god of the people Sémitiques Baal Hammon.

The Egyptians identified this god with their supreme god Amon, and called this oracular god “Amon de Siwa”. The Pharaon Bocchoris (718 front J. - C. with 712 front J. - C.) would have sacrificed to this god.

Alexandre Large the claimed to be the son of Amen, god whom the Greeks identified with Zeus.

See too

External bonds

Oasis of Amen
Voyage to the oasis of Siwa in May 2001: situation, photographs of the ruins of the temple of oracle
Amen, article of Jona Lendering
Amen (Wiki classical dictionary)

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