Talk:Amun

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[edit] Spelling

Just for grins, here are the results from a Google search to see which spelling is preferred:

• Amon Egypt* - 19,500
• Amun Egypt* - 12,600
• Ammon Egypt* - 27,300

So they are all pretty popular, but the current listing is the preferred one. Noel 03:28, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Not by Egyptologists; "Ammon" is absolutely not standard at all. The preferred spelling in that field (in English) is "Amun" or "Amon" (or even "Amen"), but not "Ammon." --Nefertum17 18:34, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The following user deleted (or even "Amen") from the previous statment (I've reinserted it). They made the following comment in the summary box, which I shall add here. Gareth Hughes 10:38, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

It's fine, but when you say 'amen', it sounds like the type of 'amen' you say in church. All in all, it's still a pretty good paragraph. 68.92.73.171

"Amen" in church is hebrew for something along the lines of "let it be so" kiss my ass "Amun" is not hebrew

[edit] Egyptian

Amun's wife is "Amaunet" or "Amunet" so using "Ammon" would make the wife being "Amunet" somewhat less consistent Well, Amun, and Re A.K.A Ra somehow clashed and became AMUN-RA (Amun-Re)

No, you have failed to spot the problem at hand. In egyptian, it is "AMN" and "R" which became "AMN-R". Most of the vowels and transliterations are entirely the invention of the modern world entirely for the convenience of writing in modern languages. Ammon is what the greeks called him, and so this constitutes one historical witness to the correct pronunciation/spelling. However, it is the greek rendereding, and so is not entirely accurate (e.g. Khshayārsha is rendered in greek as Xerxes). For various reasons, academics prefer to spell it Amun, but this is not based on any ancient witness to this spelling/pronunciation. --Victim of signature fascism | help remove biblecruft 17:32, 5 January 2006 (UTC)