Amon is one of the principal divinities of the the Egyptian Pantheon. Its name Imen , “Hidden” or “the Unknowable one”, translated impossibility of knowing its “true” form, because it appears under many aspects. It is Imen achâ renou , “Amon with the multiple names”. With its parèdre Imenet , it belongs to the divine entities of the Ogdoade d' Hermopolis. In the shape of a goose, one of its animals symbolic systems, it laid paramount egg from which the life left. In the shape of a snake, it fertilized cosmic egg worked in paramount Water. The Textes of the Pyramids mention it among the protective divinities of the late king and, with the Moyen Empire, it takes a dominating place in the area of Thèbes, where it ends up supplanting Montou. The theologists thébains assign a news parèdre, Mout, and a son, the lunar god to him Khonsou, with which it forms the triad thebaine. From, it is essential like dynastic god, and the advent of the Amenemhat (“ Imen is at the head”) of will make of him the king of the gods, “lord of the thrones of the Double Country”. During, Amon becomes the national divinity par excellence, the unifier of Egypt which allowed the victory of Ahmosis over the invaders Hyksôs. It is then associated with Re, god Sun of Héliopolis, and becomes the cosmic god Amon-Re, “the eternal, the lord of Karnak, creator of what exists, Master of all, durably established in all things”.

Its traditional figuration is that of a capped man of the crown carrying two high vertical feathers, the flesh painted in blue. It is also represented the skin brown, more rarely, or black, from where its assimilation with Min, the god of Coptos.

It is associated with the goose smn , undoubtedly by analogy phonetic, and with the ram šft . Thus, in front of the entry of its temple of Karnak extends an alley from sphinx criocéphales (or Criosphinx), symbols of its procreative power. It is also put in connection with the god of Coptos under the name Amon-Min in which it is incarnated as a divinity of fruitfulness. Beside this dynastic Amon, inaccessible to the common run of people, there exists Amon felt like less distant and lending an attentive ear to the poor, to the patients and to the expectant mothers, who can approach it at the time of the great festivities religious.

It is with the antiquated time that Egyptian Amon is compared to the Greek divinity Zeus. In fact the Cyrénéens will make known it in the Greek world as a Zeus Ammon. Its oracular sanctuary with the oasis of Siwa, is the third in importance after Delphes (devoted to Apollon) and Dodone (devoted to Zeus). Alexandre Large the was made there proclaim wire of Ammon-Zeus into -331.

Principal places of worship of the Amon god