Have been reading this fab book about Magic Words & amongst many things, it says that the word “amen” – most usually uttered at the end of a Christian Prayer such as grace is actually referring to the Ancient Egyptian creator God; Amon or Amun. I completely love it when ancient Gods, Goddesses and archetypes show themselves to be so woven with our officially non-magical life now. Does anyone know anything about this? He’d have to be a Trickster Deity as well, to have so successfully ensured the ongoing use of the name in a worshipful context. No?
When I got Ancient Egyptomania as a child, i stopped at Isis & Osiris. He was before them. Scanning the Wiki, Amon/Amun seems akin to Jupiter and with a strong Aries vibe, as you see by the Ram references;
“…In Libya there remained a solitary oracle of Amun in the Libyan Desert at the oasis of Siwa. Such was its reputation among the Classical Greeks that Alexander the Great journeyed there after the battle of Issus and during his occupation of Egypt, where he was declared the son of Amun by the oracle. Alexander thereafter considered himself divine. Even during this occupation, Amun, identified by these Greeks as a form of Zeus, continued to be the principal local deity of Thebes during its decay.
Several words derive from Amun via the Greek form, Ammon: ammonia and ammonite. The Romans called the ammonium chloride they collected from deposits near the Temple of Jupiter Amun in ancient Libya ’sal ammoniacus’ (salt of Amun) because of proximity to the nearby temple. foraminifera. Both these foraminiferans (shelled Protozoa) and ammonites (extinct shelled cephalopods) bear spiral shells resembling a ram’s, and Ammon’s, horns. Ammonia, as well as being the chemical, is a genus name in the
The regions of the hippocampus in the brain are called the cornu ammonis – literally “Amun’s Horns”, due to the horned appearance of the dark and light bands of cellular layers…”
Amen?
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The Amun-ra cult was the most popular manifestation. Unfortunately Amun was the god of the priestly class and when Akenaton attempted to dispense with Amun and hence the politically powerful priestly class he was deposed and struck from the records. Akenaton is often considered the first ruler to attempt to instill monotheism into society. Some say he and Moses were the same person.
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In the Chakra system, the bubble over the head is the zone between the 8th and 9th chakra…….the Higher Self…….it was thought that Seerers and those of mystical abilities ( the ” Priests ” ) had access to the akashic records via this channnel.
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Yah but has he survived by lingering on in the form of “amen” at the end of Christian prayers????
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Well supposedly it started in Hebrew and moved on to christianity and Islam, and means ’so be it’ ……but lots of stuff came into Hebrew culture from the 400 year sojourn in Egypt. So Im guessing amen was one of those, it makes sense. And as mentioned before, the Torah was written by Moses who was basically an Egyptian prince who met Yaweh in the desert and the rest is history as in let my people go, exodus type history.
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Yes absolutely re Amun being the reason Christians say Amen to end their prayers..and always wondered as a child why it was said!….just took my kids to Egypt recently and one of our fantastic guides (did his thesis on Temple of Karnak) told of us this…the Ancient Egyptians used to end their prayers saying “Amun” (as they prayed to him – Amun is our Lord or something) and it was appropriated – as were many other ancient/Pagan rituals etc – by the Christians (to make people more comfortable adopting Christianity). Also there has never been any other explanation of where it came from – is not from the Latin,Greek or Hebrew etc.. And early Christians certainly wouldn’t have been forthcoming to explain they had appropriated it from an heathen religion! There were many other stories he told us of with an uncanny similarity to stories in the Bible – but no surprises there… And he told us the theory, also voiced by a world-leading Professor of Egyptology, about the symbol of the Ankh actually being the symbol of the Nile (if you look at its’ design it is almost an exact representation of the path of the Nile and its’ upper tributaries branching off, the circle completed by the northern coastline of Egypt), which in itself was always known as the “giver of life” (without the Nile, the people of Egypt could never have survived) – so really was a fitting symbol…Fascinating stuff..I love it
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Melissa, that info is so cool, thanx!
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Ps yes our guides mentioned the theory some believe of Moses really being Akhenaten, (or even a high priest), although both said this was highly improbable as the time frame completely wrong…BUT it is interesting as he was one of the first proponents of monotheism, now the basis for all the majority of our religions – ahead of his time regardless!
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watched that movie Zetigeist, lots of christian mythbusting too, much related to egyptian mythology
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In Arabic ‘Amin’.
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Didn’t Mae West say ‘Ah MEN’?
Reading Paul Doherty’s books on Egypt at the moment.
Brilliant detailed descriptions of life in those times. It’s called ‘The Assassins of Isis’, a novel.
My first remembered dreams as a sprog was going down ramps into a pyramid as part of a
procession, knowing i was on my way to something momenteous but a feeling of acceptance.
but gave me a fascination for all things Egyptian.These reocurring dreams stopped in the teens but never forgot the scenario.
Strange, when i had a past life regression, stone steps going underground came to vision,
& i refused to go down them. At the same time the essential oil burner caught alight & was
was making burning sounds!
Ha Ha, knew the difference between steps & ramps. Ramps Good, Steps Not Good. -
Amen had a consort named Ament, and the halls of amenti are referred to in the emerald tablets of Thoth as a place of mysteries and dark secrets; the place where the soul journeys and is later reborn with greater awareness and consciousness….Amen is indeed salutation to the ancient God…how the name is now taken in vain.
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So…in Croatian, God is pronouced as “borg”, but spelt Bog, now does that mean the God means ‘mud’? because a culture uses different words and sounds the depict an entity, are we supposed to use that meaning instead of it’s intended meaning as interpreted by it’s source……… sorry……..but a perfectly idle and invalid argument……. though Dan Brown might open the wallets and make a mint of the fable!
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It’s all nonsense, anyway. Who cares if it’s contradictory or not?
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