Cult of Gods

Amun

Egyptian tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains
the hidden, king of the gods in the New Kingdom
Symbols and attributes
Ram; tall plumes
Papyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.
Papyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.

Key myth

A local Theban god who became the national god after the Middle Kingdom, merged with Ra as Amun-Ra. Briefly set aside by Akhenaten in favour of the Aten, he was restored by Tutankhamun.

Primary sources

  • Great Hymn to Amun (Leiden Papyrus I 350)

All sources for the Egyptian pantheon

Place in the family graph

Choose a deity to see where it comes from. Dashed lines are links the sources describe that are not parent and child.

NunAtumRaAmunShuTefnutMaatHathorSekhmetPtahGebNutAnubisThothSobekOsirisIsisSethNephthysHorus

More traditions

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.NorseA chaos monster and a sun god, drawn by L. Gruner for A. H. Layard's Monuments of Nineveh.MesopotamianVishvarupa Vishnu, Kashmir or Himachal, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection.HinduFolio 309r of the Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin), c. 800.Celtic (Irish)

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Amun: sky, storm and thunder, creation and first beings. This is overlap in one area only.

Norse

Ymir

first giant, raw material of the world

Norse

Búri

first of the gods

Norse

Borr

father of Odin, Vili and Vé

Norse

Thor

thunder, protection of gods and people, strength

Norse

Freyr

peace, fertility, sunshine

Mesopotamian

Nammu

the primeval sea, mother of the gods

Mesopotamian

Apsu

fresh water below the earth

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