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"Many think that our figure [[Aries]] was designed to represent the Egyptian King of Gods shown at Thebes with ram's horns, and variously known as Amon, Ammon, Hammon, Amen, or Amun, and worshiped with great ceremony at his temple in the oasis Ammonium, now Siwah, 5° west of Cairo on the northern limit of the Libyan desert [Libya was a term for the African continent]. Sacred to Ammon is a fat-tailed species of ram--ovis platyura aegyptiaca, whose horns are large, curved and down-turned-- that is found only in the area of the Sceptre Nome, Egypt.<ref>[http://www.constellationsofwords.com/Constellations/Aries.html Constellations of Words]</ref> | "Many think that our figure [[Aries]] was designed to represent the Egyptian King of Gods shown at Thebes with ram's horns, and variously known as Amon, Ammon, Hammon, Amen, or Amun, and worshiped with great ceremony at his temple in the oasis Ammonium, now Siwah, 5° west of Cairo on the northern limit of the Libyan desert [Libya was a term for the African continent]. Sacred to Ammon is a fat-tailed species of ram--ovis platyura aegyptiaca, whose horns are large, curved and down-turned-- that is found only in the area of the Sceptre Nome, Egypt.<ref>[http://www.constellationsofwords.com/Constellations/Aries.html Constellations of Words]</ref> | ||
Rams or lambs were sacrificed to redeem the firstborn of animals and humans, to make atonement for sin, as God told Moses to do in Exodus 12:29. The jubilee was proclaimed by the sound of a ram's horn on the Day of Atonement. Amenhotep IV introduced the worship of Aten - Aton, the sun's disc itself, identifying it as Amun-Ra. Atone comes from the words at + one, the word resembles Aton | Rams or lambs were sacrificed to redeem the firstborn of animals and humans, to make atonement for sin, as God told Moses to do in Exodus 12:29. The jubilee was proclaimed by the sound of a ram's horn on the Day of Atonement. Amenhotep IV introduced the worship of Aten - Aton, the sun's disc itself, identifying it as Amun-Ra. Atone comes from the words at + one, the word resembles Aton.<ref>[http://www.constellationsofwords.com/Constellations/Aries.html Constellations of Words]</ref> | ||
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