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most worshipped ruler of  ancient



            Egypt. His name consists of  the




            Egyptian words Amun, meaning



            “hidden”, and Ra, meaning “light”.



            Within the Egyptian myths, Amun




            is a rather modern god who appears



            later in the myths. Through Amun’s



            success in replacing the irrepressible                                                                                       ram representing fertility, pharaoh’s




            god of  war, Montu, from the title of                                                                                        liked to call themselves “beloved of



            the main god of  Thebes, the capital                                                                                         Amun”, meaning that they were the




            of  Ancient Egypt, Amun started to                                                                                           real representatives of  the god of



            get recognized as the King of  Gods.                                                                                         fertility. As the pharaohs were the




            Amun is represented as a ram with                                                                                            “Son of  Ra”, it was natural to call



            extremely curved horns. With the                                                                                             the god Amun as the father of  the
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