Amani

Kushite Amun. Identified iconographically with the Egyptian Amun via cross-listing, but with a distinctive ram-headed local form. Patron of Gebel Barkal — the sacred mountain whose cult basis legitimized the 25th Dynasty Kushite conquest of Egypt.

Children

• Piye
• Shabaka
• Shebitku
• Taharqa
• Tantamani

Domains

• kingship
• prophecy
• creation

Powers

• kingship kushite conferral
• kingship egyptian conferral
• embodies fertility and generative power in his ram-headed Napatan form
• Confirms and crowns the king by oracle
• Confer kingship by oracular verdict
• Deliver oracular verdicts

Epithets

• 𓎛𓈎𓄿𓏏𓅡
• Imn npt

Relations

• father of: Piye
• father of: Shabaka
• father of: Shebitku
• father of: Taharqa
• father of: Tantamani
• equated with: Amun

Sources

• Gebel Barkal temple inscriptions
• Piye Victory Stela (Cairo JE 48862)