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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