Hierogliphic Name: meaning "hidden"

Biography: God Amun seems to have appeared after the Old Kingdom broke down and re-unified (11th Dynasty), in the then newly-created capital Thebes, to become Amun-Ra (appeared in visual descriptions). Amun became a prominent figure on Egyptian wall paintings and hieroglyphs then; temples were built to him in Karnak, the largest temple ever built, and in Thebes.

When Mentuhotep II re-unified Upper and Lower Egypt (11th Dynsaty) around 2040 years before Christ, and created Thebes, now called Luxor, religious traditions did persist throughout the break-down of the Old Kingdom and the will of the new leaders of the New Kingdom to bring about some changes. Amun was combined with Ra, to form Amun-Ra, as a symbolic trensendance and his presence in the sun: Ra, who continued to be ultimately powerful then. Amun was reffered to in Old Kingdom pyramid texts but was more "hidden" or unknown then. This may be explained by the revival in the New Kingdom of the intellectual need to refer to the most unconditionned Being, "that is" God".

Since the multiplicity of gods were linked to the multiplicity of divine living elements and "animals" (the sun, air, water, falcon, lion etc), these incarnations were most likely too real for the human mind and intellect which process of reason led to the conclusion that "there must be an unconditioned and invisible driving force and entity behind all this."

Then Akhenaten, the revolutionary who ruled around 1350 bc, removed Amun from the list of gods, and decided that only one God should be worshipped, called Aten. Amun however resurfaced when Tutankhamun replaced Akhenaton, as well as re-established the divine order that Akenaton had unpopularly desintegrated

Amun was uncontestably one of the most powerful, reverred and reffered-to gods of Ancient Egypt, "King of Gods", "The Greatest of Heaven, Eldest on Earth. However he was the most unknown as well as his name indicates as the "hiidden".

"heaven and earth shall overflow with incense", ordered the god Amun to the queen Hatshepsut, wherein upon the latter mounted an expedition to collect incense trees.