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Updated: May 24, 2025
The association of the ram with Amon was strongly held by the Ethiopians; and in the Greek tale of Nektanebo, the last Pharaoh, having by magic visited Olympias and become the father of Alexander, he came as the incarnation of Amon wearing the ram's skin. The hippopotamus was the goddess Ta-urt, 'the great one, the patroness of pregnancy, who is never shown in any other form.
Then the crimes and incompetence of its last native king, Nektanebo II., opened the way to the Persian, and the valley of the Nile once more bowed its neck under the Persian yoke. Its temples were ruined, the sacred Apis slain, and an ass set up in mockery in its place. A few years later Egypt welcomed the Macedonian Alexander as a deliverer, and recognised him as a god.
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