My Research on amun ra

1. My Research on amun ra By Nathan Dean Grade 3

2. Nice facts about amun ra • Amun Ra is the ultimate god. • Amun Ra was created by mixing Amunwith Ra. • Amun is a ram with extremely curved horns; rams signify fertility. • Amun was one of the eight ancient Egyptian gods. • He appears as a local god of the Theban region from at least the 11th dynasty when four rulers took the name Amenemhet or "Amun is pre-eminent."

3. Nice facts about amun ra • He is mentioned immediately after the pair of gods Nau and Nen, and in connection with the twin lion gods Shu and Tefnut, who are described as the two gods who made their own bodies, and with the goddess Temt, the female counter of Tem. • He is mentioned in a popular book. The character, Robert Langdon, in the novel, 'The Lost Symbol,’ explained to his students at Harvard University how he prayed to Ra during full moon nights with others who believed in this mystical Egyptian King.

4. Nice facts about amun ra • Amun Ra simply means: Hidden Light. • By the end of the 25th dynasty, Amun Ra was considered as the chief god of the Nubian kingdom of Napata. •  AmunRa was also the most important god among the octet of Ogdoad gods of Hermopolis and it is here, where people started worshipping Amun in a significant way. However, Nubians of ancient Egypt believed that Amun took his birth in a place called Gebel Barkal in the northern part of present Sudan.

6. Resources http://ancientegyptonline.co.uk/amun.html Amun Ra - The Ultimate Egyptian God http://egyptian-gods.org/egyptian-gods-amun/ http://www.krschannel.com/amun_ra.html 

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