Page 24 - HP2B 002 God of the Sun Ra

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