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In Egypt the God Amon known also
as Amon-Re was considered as the kings of the gods among all
Egyptian deities. Normally the God Amon-Re was known only as
Amon or also called Amen or Amun. The symbol associated to God
Amon was the goose, the ram or the bull. God Amon from Egypt was
considered as the head of the city of Thebes. In hermolis Amon
was also very popular, there it was belived that God Amon was
married to Mut, a son was born from this union called Khonsu
associate dto the moon. In some regions of Egypt it was belived
that the God Amon was partly responsible for creation. The main
popular belief of Amon was his protection of weak. Queen
Hatshepsut who became at a time the female pharaoh of Egypt
after the death of her husband built a temple at Deir-el-Bahri
for the God Amon-Re. Amon stayed during various point of the
Egyptian history very popular compared to other Egyptian Gods.
In Egypt Amon is depicted a man who is bearded, with a cap on
his head surmounted with two long plumes. Egyptian believe that
God Amon to be the physical father of all the Pharaohs.
Originally Amon is known as the god of fertility. By the Nubians
Amon is worshipped as being born in Sudan. Before becoming a
popular deity Amon was only a deification of the concept of air
or wind which is one of the four main concepts forming part of
the creation of the universe in the cosmogony of Ogdoad. |
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