The Oracle Of Amon – Egyptian Tarot

The Oracle Of Amon – Egyptian Tarot

From the developer: “The Oracle of Amon – Egyptian Tarot is based on four historic premises: The legendary Book of Thoth reputed to record the history of the world in picture format and stored with the Ark of the Covenant. The visit of Alexander the Great to the world renown Oracle of Amon located at Oasis Siwa in 331 B.C. The zodiac relief found in the roof of the Hathor Temple at Dendra and the 26 major gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt. The program has a traditional pull down menu, manual card selection with relevant myths and stories, reverse card images, several mp3 music titles appropriate for the program, and uses MS Agent technology for human speech. MS Agent and speech engine are available as free downloads on site.

“There are eleven popular spreads to use for reading the cards. These spreads include the Star Spread, Celtic Cross, French Cross, Daily and Weekly Horoscopes, Question/Answer Spread, Planetary Spread, Consequences Spread, three and nine card Past, Present, Future Spreads, and the famous Zodiac Spread. It is also possible to select individual cards at random from the pull down menu. Cards may be printed on card stock to create your personal Egyptian Tarot card deck. If you want an accurate, dynamic, interactive program with virtually unlimited card reading combinations, excellent graphics, and super music by world renown artists, this program is a must have!”

There are several ancient monuments in the oasis of Siwa. The main sanctuary, the oracle, can be found on a partly artificial mound of dried mud (a “shali”) that is about 30 meters high and is called Arhumi.

In front of the oracle temple was a court of about 22×11 meters. The sanctuary itself consisted of three successive rooms, built in an almost Greek fashion.

The holiest of holies was decorated with a frieze, which is now badly damaged but is still more or less readable. On the eastern wall, king Amasis, the builder of the sanctuary, was shown offering bread to the gods Amun, Mut, Chnum, Chonsu, and four others.

On the opposite site, the figure of the ruler of Siwa, a man named Sutekh-Irdes, is no longer visible, but his remarkable title is still legible: “king of Upper and Lower Egypt and chief of the lands in the desert”. He offers bread to, again, Amun and Mut, to Onuris and Tefnut, Harsaphis and Nut, and finally Thoth and Nehmataway.

Ammon was a Libyan deity, whose oracle was situated in the Siwa oasis, some 500 kilometers west of Memphis, the capital of ancient Egypt. The oasis was also called Ammon. The Egyptians identified the god with their own supreme deity Amun; they called god of the oracle “Amun of Siwa, lord of good counsel”. The fact that the site was hard to reach, must have contributed to the feeling that an oracle from Ammon was something special – and therefore reliable.

Siwa was too far away and too isolated to be a real part of the Egyptian kingdom, but there may have been indirect control. We are certain that during the Nineteenth Dynasty, there was a fort north of Siwa, at Umm el-Rakham on the coast. This proves that the pharaohs were interested in the far west. After the fall of the New Kingdom, Siwa was certainly independent, and it is no strange idea that the Libyan kings of the Twenty-Second and Twenty-Third Dynasties were somehow related to the rulers of Siwa.

Siwa finally became a fully integrated part of Egypt after the domestication of the dromedary had made desert travel easier, for example to Egypt in the east, the Cyrenaica in the northwest and the Nasamones in the west. Among the oasis’ exports was salt.

A shrine was built by pharaoh Amasis (r.570-526): a political act, intended to gain support from the Libyan tribes that had played a decisive role during Amasis’ accession. A similar motive may have been behind the second temple, built by Nectanebo II (r. 359/358-342/341).

Amasis’ sanctuary has been excavated on the acropolis, a shali hill now called Aghurmi, and is remarkable because it does not look like an Egyptian temple at all. In fact, the cult seems to have remained Libyan in nature, something that is more or less confirmed by the fact that the local ruler of the oasis is not depicted as Amasis’ subject but as his equal. The cult of Ammon had been Egyptianized only superficially.

In the fifth century, the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus stated in his Histories that the Lydian king Croesus (560-546) had offered sacrifices to the god Ammon. It is possible that Herodotus is right; after all, Croesus was allied to Amasis. Besides, by now, the cult had began to spread outside Egypt.

The first Greeks to visit the shrine were people from Cyrenaica, who knew the site through caravan trade. They called the god Zeus Ammon. Of course, Ammon is a bad rendering of Amun, but the name was nonetheless very fitting: ammos was the Greek word for “sand” – in other words, the Greeks called the god Sandy Zeus. His cult spread to the Greek world, and was especially propagated by the poet Pindar (522-445), who was the first Greek to dedicate an ode to the god and one of the first Greeks to erect a statue to the god. Later visitors included the Athenian commander Cimon, the Macedonian king Alexander the Great, and the Carthaginian leader Hannibal.

In the Roman age, the oracle was not really forgotten, but there were not many visitors. Still, an inscription was found that dates to the reign of Trajan (98-117), and of course there were people living at Siwa. Many tombs with Roman architectural elements have been found, suggesting substantial wealth in the first and second centuries CE. A mud-brick building may have been a Roman fort or a church, and we know of a sixth-century Christian leader named Ammoneki. After Islam arrived, the ancient oracle was converted into a mosque.

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