Ammon

Berber · deity · antiquity · Recorded classification

Ammon’s Libyan oracle is connected with Egyptian Thebes and Greek Dodona in the foundation accounts reported by Herodotus.

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ancestor of: GurzilLibyan Ammon of Siwa, father of the war-god Gurzil (parentage encoded on Gurzil's record). Expressed as ancestor since 'parent' is not a relation kind.Corippus, Iohannis (6th c.), naming Gurzil the son of Ammon (the horned/bull god) (primary)
interpretatio: ZeusHerodotus, Histories 2.42, 54–55 (primary)
cult form of: AmunHerodotus, Histories 2.42, 54–55 (primary)

Ammon was a Libyan (Amazigh) deity whose ram-form oracle stood at the Siwa oasis west of Egypt; Herodotus reckons him a Libyan god, and Greeks identified him with Zeus (Zeus Ammon).: Herodotus, Histories 2.42, 2.55. (reference); Bates, O. (1914). The Eastern Libyans: An Essay. London: Macmillan & Co., chapter on Religion. (reference)
The Siwa oracle of Ammon was one of antiquity's most revered (and the only non-Greek of the seven great oracles); Alexander the Great visited it and was proclaimed son of the god.: Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander 3.3-4. (reference); Livius.org, 'Ammon (Siwa)'. (reference)
Ammon’s Libyan oracle is connected with Egyptian Thebes and Greek Dodona in the foundation accounts reported by Herodotus.: Herodotus, Histories 2.42, 54–55 (primary)