Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The Egyptian god of life and reproduction, sometimes represented as a man with a ram's head.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
aghanee .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a primeval Egyptian personification of air and breath; worshipped especially at Thebes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Thebes especially is said to have acknowledged a being without beginning or end, called Amun or Amun-Kneph, the all-prevading Spirit or Breath of
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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a text or otherwise, a fervent "Amun" was certain to resound through the building, either because long custom had led him to regard the appendage as indispensable to it, or because like an old soldier suddenly roused to "attention," he awoke from a stolen slumber to jerk himself into the mental attitude most familiar to him.
The Parish Clerk 1892
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The priests of Thebes claimed that their god Amun was the father of Atum, and so the first.1
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Hawass said Saturday the relic shows Amenhotep seated on a throne, accompanied by the deity Amun.
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For instance, no one can be certain how Mutnodjmet felt about her sister's vision of an Egypt without the Amun Priests, but in an image of her found in
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The divinity honored there was the deity Amun, a ruling god of the Egyptian pantheon.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Hawass said Saturday the relic shows Amenhotep seated on a throne, accompanied by the deity Amun.
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Ammon: The major Egyptian god Amun identified by Greeks with Zeus.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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I positioned myself on the base of a column in the Precinct of Amun Re and relished the sunlight hitting the Hypostyle columns, which are chubby at the bottom and glutted with hieroglyphics.
Fahad Faruqui: Log Off And Live Life Fahad Faruqui 2012
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Statues of the king in Egypt soon show him dressed as lord of Upper and Lower Egypt, while inscriptions name him as beloved of Ra, son of Amun.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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