#amaunet

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Still killing those looks

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1. Bahamut, a massive fish supporting the world on its back in Islamic lore.

2. Amun and Amaunet, primordial deities of air from ancient Egypt. They were originally part of the Ogdoad of Hemopolis, though Amun would later become a head god on his own.

3. Gozu-Tenno, syncretic Japanese deity of disease, and also protection against it. He was equated with the storm god Susanoo-no-Mikoto.

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1x1/1x2 Children of the Gods (15)

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That terrible moment where Teal’c kills Sha’uri to stop Amaunet from killing Daniel. As usual though it illustrates the show’s laziness, as Teal’c shoots Sha’uri in the chest which would almost certainly not kill Amaunet. When they’re both lying on the floor incapacitated would be a perfect moment for Amaunet to abandon her dying host to try and take Daniel, but nooo they couldn’t be bothered.

Tagging @shauriofabydos as is law for all things Sha’uri ;)

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Amun, Amun-Re: One of the most important gods of ancient Egypt, Amun is first mentioned, along with his consort Amaunet, in the Pyramid Texts (PT 446). 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'. Within s century and a half Amun gradually displaced the old god of that region, Montu, and the ascendancy of the Theban kings in Middle and New Kingdom times eventually propelled him (as the combined Amun-Re) to the position of supreme god within the Egyptian pantheon. He was associated with two other deities who together made up the local divine triad of Thebes: his consort, the goddess Mut -who largely replaced Amaunet in this role- and the lunar god Khonsu who was worshipped as their son. His character developed over the millennia into that of a rich and varied personality. The Egyptians themselves called him Amun asha renu or 'Amun rich in names', and the god can only be fully understood in terms of the many aspects which were combined in him. The Greek writer Plutarch quotes the Egyptian chronicler Manetho as stating that Amun meant 'that which is concealed' or 'invisible', and the god was also commonly given epithets such as 'mysterious of form' -suggesting an essentially imperceptible nature- and it is possible that his name originally referred to Amun as the invisible power of the wind. While it is true that his name was written without a defining determinative, this was also true of some other creator gods, but the aspect of Amun as a mysterious, hidden god was primary to his nature. In addition to being a member of the Ogdoad, the group of eight primeval deities worshipped in Hermopolis, Amun was worshipped as Amun kematef or 'Amun who has completed his moment', a creator god in the form of a snake which renewed itself. In this form Amun was said to predate the other members of the Ogdoad, and it was probably this form of Amun that Plutarch refers to as 'Kneph' -an eternal, self-engendering god worshipped by the inhabitants of Thebes. By the 18th dynasty Karnak Temple was said to occupy the 'moung of the beginning' where Amun brought the world into being; and a number of New Kingdom hymns extol Amun for creating the cosmos through his thoughts, an important step in the theological development of cosmogonic ideas. In the Book of the Dead Amun is called 'eldest of the gods of the eastern sky', an epithet reflecting both his primeval character and solar-associated nature, and an 18th-dynasty hymn to Amun preserved on a stela in the British Museum refers to Amun when he rises as Horakhty, directly fusing the hidden one with the visible sun. When he was syncretized with the god Re, as the composite Amun-Re, Amun took on a number of aspects of the solar deity, though these were clearly secondary to his hidden nature and the god was regarded as antithetical to the sun during the Amarna Period. From the 12th dynasty, Amun kamutef -literally, 'bull of his mother'- was the ithyphallic form of Amun depicted in ritual scenes in the temples of Thebes and especially Luxor Temple. The epithet suggests both that the god was self-engendered -meaning that he begot himself on his mother, the cow who personified the goddess of the sky and of creation -and also conveys the sexual energy of the bull which, for the Egyptians, was a symbol of strength and fertility par excellence. In this ithyphallic aspect Amun was related to the fertility god Min and is sometimes called Amun-Min. It seems likely that some of the character of the old Theban war god Montu, whom Amun largely displaced, was absorbed by this ascendant deity. The Theban rulers of the 13th dynasty had made their city a rallying point against the invading Hyksos and, when the Hyksos were finally driven from Egypt (c. 1550 BC), it was Amun who received credit for the military victories of the time. Likewise, in the succeeding period of New Kingdom Empire Amun was not only said to instigate Egyptian expansion and to protect the Egyptian king in battle, but the 'lord of victory' and 'lover of strength' was specifically given credit for successful military strategy. Pyramid Text 1540 states 'you have come, O king, as the son of Geb upon the throne of Amun', and from the Middle Kingdom the god was styled 'Lord of the thrones of the Two Lands' of Upper and Lower Egypt. The first known example of Amun's title 'king of the gods' appears on the 12th-dynasty 'White Chapel' of Senwosret I at Karnak and is used frequently thereafter. He was also called 'chief of the gods' in this same role of divine king. By Ptolemaic times AMun was directly equated with Zeus, and his Greek name Amonraonther may be based on the Egyptian title Amun-Re nesu Netheru, 'Amun-Re king of the gods'. Unlike deities who were thought to personify the sky, earth or some other limited region or phenomenon, Amun was held to be a universal god who, at least in his developed theology, permeated the cosmos and all it contained. While a few other gods could be said to be 'universal' in nature, it is with Amun that we find a developed rationale for this claim. As the god who 'exists in all things' and the one in whom all gods were subsumed, Amun came particularly close to being a kind of monotheistic deity and was sometimes revered as the ba or soul or all natural phenomenon.

The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt By Richard H. Wilkinson

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Ancient times by tessavance

In the hypostyle hall of Karnak temple. At left, Isis, mother of the gods, mistress of heaven; at right, Amaunet.

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Amaunet (Amunet or Amonet) by Thalia Took

Amaunet was a primeval goddess of ancient Egypt who partially fused with the goddess Neith.  Took’s description of Amaunet and other goddesses aren’t always accurate but her artwork is breathtaking and there aren’t many depictions of Amaunet whether ancient or modern.  If you are a fan of Penny Dreadful then you’ll know who she is.

~Hasmonean