Ammon

Entered as the Libyan/Amazigh Ammon (Amun) of the Siwa oasis, per the task's framing of Ammon-Amun of Siwa as Libyan. Closely fused with Egyptian Amun and Greek Zeus, but his desert oracle is treated by classical authors as a Libyan cult. He is also reckoned the father of the Berber war-god Gurzil. Classified deity (oracular sky-god).

Children

• Gurzil

Domains

• oracle prophecy
• sky

Powers

• deliver oracles to petitioners

Relations

• ancestor of: Gurzil

Sources

• Herodotus, Histories 2.42, 2.55.
• Bates, O. (1914). The Eastern Libyans: An Essay. London: Macmillan & Co., chapter on Religion.
• Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander 3.3-4.
• Livius.org, 'Ammon (Siwa)'.