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EGYPTIAN VIEW: The
Ammon God of ancient
Libya seemed to be adopted by
Egypt when
Libya assisted Egypt's Pharaoh to power. The Pharaoh built a statue in homage to the God. It is believed that the
Egyptian city of Thebes
had a God called Amun (Amen) whom they associated
Ammon with.
However, later on the middle and newer
Egyptian kingdoms emerged and grew and so did their God Ra (Re). Later when the older and new kingdoms merged their Gods also merged or Ra subsumed Amun resulting in Amun-Ra and replaced Ra as the
head of all of the
Egyptian Gods.
Ra was the sun god (if you look up now in the sky you will
still see Ra the sun?). At night Ra will be swallowed at the horizon by another Goddess Nut the sky Goddess. He will traverse through the underworld and at this time is when he will have horns. In the morning she (the blue sky will birth him out again hence morning. So Amun-Ra
had horns at some point but was not depicted with them.
LIBYAN VIEW: So we turn to the Lybian God
Ammon which was depicted with horns. Lybia was controlled by the Phenicians. He may have been related to Ba'al Hammon, a god of the Semitic peoples (e.g., the Phoenicians) who conquered Lybia. The worship of BaĘżal Hammon flourished in the Phoenician colony of
Carthage.
GREEK VIEW: The
Greeks attributed the foundation of famous Greek City of Thebes to Cadmus, a Phoenician
king from Tyre (now in Lebanon miles from
Libya) which would have been overseeing
Libya. Cadmus was the brother of Queen
Europa. Cadmus was famous for teaching the
Phoenician alphabet and building the Acropolis, which was named the Cadmeia in
his honor and was an intellectual, spiritual, and cultural center. Phoenicians were ancient before the
Greeks if
Greece was later founded by Phonecians. Phoenites means purple people (sellers of purple clothing etc). The phoenicians
had a trade route that led all the way back to
Greece from Tyre (Lebannon) along the coast. The
Greeks thought Amun he was an
Egyptian manifestation of their god
Zeus. Even
Alexander the Great thought it worthwhile consulting the oracle of Amun. If the Pheonicians gave
Libya and
Greece their God's then there is some relation. Hence the reason either Alexander or someone would merge the two gods.
ANOTHER VIEW: these historians Plutarch, Curtius, Justin, and Diodorus all report on Alexander's visit to the temple of
Ammon in the Siwah oasis in the Lybia deasert after he conquered
Egypt. that Alexander was told that
Ammon, not Philip, was
his true father. With slight variations, they also report that Alexander was told he would conquer the world and never be defeated. Alexander was
still faced with Darius and the
Persian Empire. It may have been at that time when
his face was printed with horns.
AMMON is depicted as a
man with 2
goat horns.
BIBLICAL VIEW: Daniel was told a ram with two horns (
Greece) will defeat the persians.
hope I did not confuse you too much.