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Ammon

deity earth Libyan corroborated · 6

Ammon is described as the king of Libya in Diodorus Siculus's euhemerist account. He is the lover of Amalthea and gives her a region of great fertility shaped like a bull's horn. He is also identified as the father of the god Dionysus.

↻ synthesized from 6 sources

When

First attested
3000 BCE
Attested period
-3000 – 2020
Historical notes
Mentioned as the father of Gurzil in a 6th-century poem.

Relationships

parent of
Dionysus, Gurzil, Iarbas, Khons
consort of
Amalthea, Mut, Amaune
co occurs with
Potrimpos, house-snake, Waghia, Khanukh, Ba'al-Ḥammon, Gurzil, Zeus-Ammon, Dhu al-Qarnayn, Min, Re, Pan, Aegipan, Ba'al, Hera, Khnum
manifests as
ram's horns
aspect of
Amon-Ra
syncretized with
Tyrian Heracles, Jupiter Ammon, Zeus
has aspect
Ammon of Siwa
enemy of
Aton

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Mentioned by

Sources

wikipedia (4)
  1. Amalthea (mythology)
  2. Gurzil
  3. Baal Hammon
  4. Horns of Ammon
encyclopedia (2)
  1. Ammon (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed
  2. Animal Worship (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed

Source passages

“describes her as an especially beautiful young woman and the lover of Ammon, who is the king of Libya. Ammon gives her a region of great fertility which is shaped like a bull's horn”

#8984 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“They regarded Gurzil as the offspring of Ammon, presumably the Ammon whose temple was at Siwa, and a cow. Corippus links the cults of Gurzil and Ammon, and in one place refers to "Ammonian Gurzil", elsewhere juxtaposing the two gods.”

#23861 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“According to the 6th century AD author Corippus, a Libyan people known as the Laguatan carried an effigy of their god Gurzil, whom they believed to be the son of Ammon, into battle against the Byzantine Empire in the 540s AD.”

#40516 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Ammon, eventually Amon-Ra, was a deity in the Egyptian pantheon whose popularity grew over the years, until growing into a monotheistic religion in a way similar to the proposal that the Judeo-Christian-Islamic deity evolved out of the Ancient Semitic pantheon.”

#40636 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat

“As king of the gods Ammon was identified by the Greeks with Zeus and his consort Mūt with Hera.”

#44020 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free