Amon may have been originally one of the eight deities of the Hermopolite creation myth; his cult reached Thebes, where he became the patron of the pharaohs by the reign of Mentuhotep I (2008–1957 bce).At that date he was already identified with the sun god Re of Heliopolis and, as Amon-Re, was received as a national god.Represented in human form, sometimes with a ram’s head, or as a ram …