Chapter 650: God's Name [Asking for a Monthly Pass, Asking for a Subscription]

The animal on the long table is about 35 cm high and 20 cm wide, which is not the usual style of Egyptian pottery, it is more detailed, and this ram head, even if it is the same ram head, has many different forms in Egyptian civilization, representing different gods, different gods at different times of the day.

The ram's head in front of him, Fortner had not seen it before, and he did not remember it.

The most special thing about it is the pair of horns.

Just like some of the sacred scripts "??,??,??,??,??,??" that refer to sheep's heads and horns, the horns of sheep's horns in Egyptian civilization were mostly straight with a little undulating lines, or upturned on both sides.

But the horns are bent like a whirlpool, and they resemble a wombβ€”just like the holy book of "womb".

"George......" said Fortner, already having a judgment in his mind, "the horns in the shape of a womb, this does not look like the handiwork of the Egyptians." ”

"Yes, yes...... I thought so too, womb ......," Edwin muttered, "it's the Nubians, it's the Kusch......

They knew a lot about Egyptian civilization, but Paul Smith didn't understand it well, and Bishl and Ella were even more confused.

"What do you mean?" Byshel asked, beware of them being crooked, "You say it's not genuine?" ”

"No, it's not that relationship." Fortner looked at the pottery statue and wanted to go up to take a closer look, but it was temporarily occupied by Edwin, "The ram head and lion body, generally speaking, represents the sun god Amun, but the situation of this pottery statue is different, it is not the common ram's horn, nor is it Amun's horn......"

"This statue is not the sun god Amon?" Paul Smith heard something and thought, "Is the Kusch sun god?" ”

"Yes, Paul, I think it's possible." Fortuna replied.

"You'd better explain it to us." Ella was a little impatient, thinking that this was the other party's means to lower the price, and was still singing the double reed, "What sun god is not the sun god, let's say, don't think we won't understand." ”

Edwin ignored their words completely, his gloved hands gently touching the surface of the clay statue, fascinated and mad.

Fortuna took a deep breath, which was just some thoughts for the time being, and explained as simply as possible: "The god Amun is the sun god of the Egyptians, but the original image of the god Amun did not have ram horns, and the element of ram horns was that after the Egyptians conquered the kingdom of Kush in the Nubian region, they absorbed the sun god of the Kush people, and possibly the ram's head image of Knum, the 'god of the source of the Nile', and the god Amun began to have ram horns. ”

"Later, Knum also became the ram god among the Egyptian gods, and legend has it that he created human beings, and everyone who came to the world was made of clay by Knum, and then put the baby in their mother's womb."

"As for the sun god of the Kush, the name has been lost, and almanacs generally refer to him as 'Nubia-Amun.'"

The more Fortuna said this, the more messy his mind became, and the stronger the trance-like feeling became.

Once again, he seemed to see the horns in the shape of a womb turning, but when he settled his mind, it was only an ancient clay statue.

"So...... You know, this is the Nubian region, where the kingdom of Kush used to be. At the beginning of the New Kingdom, Egypt conquered Kush, which was around 1500 BC. Although Kushi became an important province in Egypt, both culturally and economically became more and more symbiotic from the initial colonial relations.

But there have always been various rebellions in the Kush region, especially in the middle of the New Kingdom period for more than two hundred years, many rebellions of various sizes. Later, around 1075 BC, the New Kingdom collapsed and the Kush regained their independence. A few hundred years later, they even conquered Egypt in turn, establishing the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty.

It was also in this relationship that the ram's horn image of the god Amun became solid, and in addition, he gradually merged with the god Ra to become the god Amun-la, called the King of God.

Because the god Ra, which is also the god of the sun, is considered to be the god of the ram Knum in the evening.

So this pottery statue is the god of the sun, but it is not the god of Amun, it is not the god of the Egyptians, it is more like Ra than Amun, like Knum, like Nubia-Amun, it is the god of the Kush...... In this case, the holy book can be explained......"

Fortunner was fascinated by it, and some of the ideas came together.

"The rebels of the king, the rebels of the sun god Amun, used stone sickness to kill Imhotpu and his followers, and established a new world ruled by the ram-headed sun god. The former sun god was Amun of the Egyptians, and the latter was the Kushite...... I don't know God's name either. In Egypt and the Kush civilization, the name of the god was powerful, and it had power in itself, and if the name of the god was taken away, then the god fell. The name of the god 'Nubia-Amun' was taken by Amun.

They believed that the invocation of the name of the god would give power, and that all rituals could not be separated from the name of the god, and politically speaking, if the name of the god 'Nubia-Amun' was destroyed, the civilization of the Kush people would lose its independence and be gradually absorbed and integrated...... Therefore, even when the Kush people later returned to the country and even became the masters of Egypt, they still used 'Amun' and 'Amun-La' as the names of the sun gods they worshipped.

Nubia Amun, has fallen......"

Fortner spoke the messy words, and the womb-shaped ??, of sheep's horns seemed to swirl his heart as well.

"Alright, alright." Ella hadn't been listening carefully for a long time, and said angrily: "Let's just say it, how much do you cost this pottery statue?" ”

"Here...... There is a holy script......" Edwin suddenly uttered a soft voice, as if with a little urgency and fanaticism, "It's a name...... Herry, come and see, the modifier of the name is 'life-giving'...... It's a god name! ”

Fortner's heart suddenly mentioned, only to see Edwin already holding the clay statue in both hands, his feet bent and about to kneel on the ground, his eyes fixed on a part of the clay lion's body, and the figure hid it to a little corner, it was a line of holy writing.

The first modifier ????, life-giving ......

That is the name of the god "Nubia-Amun......

"George!" Fortuna cried out for some reason, shuddering, and his voice trembled: "Don't! ”

Paul Smith, Beyell, and Ella were still confused, and Edwin at the table over there was a hoarse and frantic reciting something, so weird that it didn't resemble a human voice.

β€œI?! The true sun god, the creator of all things, the black goat of the forest that gave birth to thousands of descendants! ”

With this call, the rectangular pile of nylon cloth at the back of the tent slowly moved.