Amon Kneph

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Amon Kneph

• English I Louise S. McGehee School
• 2004

(Ammon)
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Powers

• Amon Kneph was the Egyptian deity of air and one
  of the eight creator deities.
• He had no mother or father and was born in
  secret.
• When he combined with Re, becoming Amon-Re, he
  was King of the gods.
• Before he was known as Amon-Re, he was unseen,
  therefore not well-known.

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Physical Characteristics

• As Amon Kneph, he was seen with the head of a
  sacred ram.
• He usually had horns that curved downward, a
  characteristic common to rams in the Nile region.
• He was also commonly portrayed with wings.

(Ammon)

• Once known as Amon-Re, he was depicted in human
  form wearing a headdress, and wore all of the
  symbols of supreme power.

(Ellison)
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Place of Importance

• Amon became the chief god of Thebes anytime
  during 1570-1085 BC.
• There were two major temples to him one in Luxor
  and the other in Karnak.
• Thebes became a model for later constructed
  cities.

(Karnak Temple)
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The Nile

• Amon, as the force responsible for the wind,
  therefore was in charge of the flooding of the
  Nile.
• The annual Nile flood was necessary for the soil
  to be moistened and replenished for the next year.

(Ions)
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The Great Queen Hatshepsut
(Egypt Famous Pharaohs)

• Amon-Re played a large part in the myth of the
  Great Queen Hatshepsut.
• In the story, Amon-Re wanted to give Egypt a
  great ruler.
• So, with the help of Thoth, another god, he
  picked Ahmes, wife of Pharaoh Thutmose, to bear
  his daughter, Hatshepsut.
• Thoth and Amon-Re traveled to the palace, and
  Thoth placed a spell to put everyone in the
  palace other than Thutmose to sleep.
• Amon-Re went into Thutmose, and Thutmose then
  breathed Amon-Res breath of life into Ahmes and
  told her that she would bear Hatshepsut, a
  daughter who would unite Egypt.
• When Amon-Re blessed the baby, the Hathors wove
  her life story for Ahmes to see, and all of it
  came true.

(The Great Queen Hatshepsut)
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• Amenhotep, which was a name used by four pharaohs
  in Egypt, means Amen (Amon) is pleased.

(Ellison)
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Works Cited

• Amenhotep. Encyclopedia Americana. 1992.
• Ammon. Encyclopedia Mythica. 14 January 2004.
• ltwww.pantheon.org/.../mythology/africa/egyptian/a
  mmo n.html gt
• Egypt Famous Pharaohs. Kidzworld. 14 January
  2004
• lthttp//www.kidzworld.com/site/p996.htm gt
• Ellison, Taylor Ray. Amun and Amun-Re. Tour
  Egypt. 2003. 14
• January 2004. ltwww.touregypt.net/featurestories/
  amun-re.htmgt
• Ions, Veronica. Egyptian Mythology. New York
  Peter Bedrick Books, 1982.

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Works Cited

• Karnak Temple. Egyptian Monuments. 14
• January 2004.lthttp//www.egyptsites.co.uk/
  upper /luxoreast/karnak/karnak.html gt
• Peck, Caroline N. Amon. Encyclopedia Americana.
  1992.
• Sweet, R.F.G. Amon. World Book Encyclopedia.
  1996.
• The Great Queen Hatshepsut. Egyptian Myths. 2
  January 2004. 8
• January 2004. lthttp//www.egyptianmyths.net/hatsh
  ep.htmgt