Amun
Egyptian · deity · old kingdom · deity
Hidden-creator deity, Theban patron, syncretized with Ra as Amun-Ra in the New Kingdom. Doctrinal father of legitimate pharaohs through the formal Birth Cycle iconographic program. Kushite kings of the 25th Dynasty drew their legitimation through their devotion to Amun at Gebel Barkal.
Children
Domains
- creation
- wind air
- fertility
Powers
- kingship egyptian conferral
- oracular judgment
- celestial luminance
- Deliver oracular verdicts
- Create himself and stay hidden
Epithets
- nsw nṯrw
- kꜣ-mwt.f
- nb nswt tꜣwy
- jmn rn.f
- jmn-rꜥ
Relations
- spouse: Mut
- equated with: Zeus
- father of: Hatshepsut
- father of: Amenhotep III
- father of: Ramesses II
- equated with: Amani
- interpretatio: Zeus
- lover: Ahmose
- lover: Mutemwiya
- lover: Tuya