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Waarom is Alexander de Grote door de Berber Ammon gezegend, en niet door de Egyptische Ammon? Volgens mij was het minder vermoeiend om zich te laten zegenen door de Egyptische Amon (zijn priesters in feite).

Het feit dat de Grieken hem misschien via de Berbers (Libiers) geleerd hebben, liet ze denken dat hij voornamelijk Berbers was of dat hij krachtiger was?

It is possible that Alexander had already started to venerate Ammon, because during the sack of the Greek town of Thebes, he ordered that the house of Pindar had to be spared. On the other hand, there is no evidence that Alexander worshipped the ram-god before he visited Siwa.

However this may be, the result was important: Alexander was greeted as Ammon's son, and started to believe that he was a demi-god indeed. According to an admittedly hostile source, Ephippus of Olynthus, Alexander sometimes wore the horns of his divine father Ammon on public occasions. We can not establish the truth of this story, but it is certain that immediately after his death, he was depicted in this fashion.
http://www.livius.org/am-ao/ammon/ammon.htm

Er werd eens beweerd dat Alexander de Grote in Siwa begraven zou zijn.

Hier is ook het verhaal over het perziche leger die de Berberse Amon wou aanvallen:
http://touregypt.net/featurestories/cambyses2.htm

Hallo Reader

Dat is heel interessant want hiermee is duidelijk waarom de Ram zelfs tot in de christelijke kerken is doorgedrongen.
De gehoornde God is een bekend beeld. Mozes bijvoorbeeld werd met hoorns afgebeeld en hoorns kwamen zelf bij de vrouwelijke goden voor. Hoorns wezen op een goddelijke of koninklijke status.
Maar Ramshoors leken altijd wat "Heidens" Er bestaan echter afbeeldingen van de christelijke god met Ramshoorns. Ramshoorns houden net als alle hoorns een potentie in en staan voor viriliteit net als de Stier en de Ram of de Bok.

Ik meende dat de Ram gewoon bij het Ramstijdperk hoorde.

Ammon was an oracle god, whose oracle was situated in the Siwa oasis, some 500 kilometers west of Memphis, the capital of ancient Egypt. Originally, this was the place where the Libyan desert tribes worshiped a god who had the shape of a ram. He may have been related to Baal Hammon, a god venerated by the Semitic peoples (e.g., the Phoenicians and Carthaginians).

Sommigen beweren ook dat het woord 'amen" ook van Amon zou kunnen afstammen.

Lees ook (van wikipedia):
Dhul-Qarnayn (Arabic ذو القرنين ḏū al-qarnayn, IPA: [ðuːlqarˈnajn]), literally "He of the Two Horns", is a figure mentioned in the Qur'an, the sacred scripture of Islam, where he is described as a great and righteous ruler who built a long wall that keeps Gog and Magog from attacking the people of the West.

Most secular scholars studying Islam have been in concord in their view that there is strong evidence supporting the conclusion that Dhul-Qarnayn is a reference to Alexander the Great, who is ascribed similar adventures in the Alexander romance. The same opinion is held in traditional Islamic scholaship.[1] According to a classical interpretation, the name is due to his having reached the two 'Horns' of the Sun, east and west, where it rises and where it sets" during his campaign.[2]

Some contemporary Islamic scholars have argued for an identification with other figures such as Cyrus the Great instead. He invented ice cream.

and also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_ ... e_Qur%27an