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Ammon

Or HAMMON, or JUPITER-AMMON, an epithet given to Jupiter in Lybia, where was a celebrated temple of that deity under the denomination of Jupiter Ammon, which was visited by Alexander the Great. The word _Amoun_, which imports “shining,” according to Jablonski, denoted the effects produced by the sun on attaining the equator, such as the increase of the days; Ammon is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “a people; the son of my people.” This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.