Amen
Also called Ammon, Amon, Amun, Amen-Ra, Zeus-Ammon, Jupiter-Ammon.
Amen, or Amun, is the hidden creator god of Egypt, a local Theban deity who rose to be the supreme state god Amen-Ra, worshipped almost always in identification with another god.
At a glance
- Tradition
- Egyptian mythology
- Region
- Egypt (place of origin)
- Trait family
- The Two-Realmed
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Traits
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Form
- Primordial progenitor of life
why
With his female counterpart Amunet he was counted among the Eight of Hermopolis, the primeval powers of the world before creation, where the pair personified hidden force; when he became national god, his theologians recast him as the invisible and unknowable power that first set life moving.
Utility powers
- Creation
why
With his female counterpart Amunet he was counted among the Eight of Hermopolis, the primeval powers of the world before creation, where the pair personified hidden force; when he became national god, his theologians recast him as the invisible and unknowable power that first set life moving.
- Shapeshifting
why
In one strand he takes the form of a serpent said to have engendered the primeval gods themselves, and in the myth of the king's divine birth he comes to the queen in the borrowed shape of her own husband — even his fatherhood of pharaohs is conducted in disguise.
Roles
Judged from the works' own entries, not from the description. Carries: the figure holds the role. Meets: the role is in its stories, held by something it meets.
- Father carries both readings
4 citations
- Geraldine Pinch, Egyptian Mythology, p. 100.
- Maria Leach, editor, Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend, s.v. "Amen."
- Theresa Bane, Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore, s.v. "Amen."
- E. A. Wallis Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians, p. 118.