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Packajos000 rams and goblets I see, greetings O miles viam ad illuminationem, I assume your ever-hypnotic artwork, at least in part, demonstrates the enormous sacred importance of rams in both mythology and religious practice.

The ram’s head was used as a symbol of a sun god in the Kushan and Berber cultures, while modern sources ignored the existence of Amun in Berber mythology, he was in fact the greatest ancient Berber god.

The most famous Amun worship temple in Ancient Libya was the temple at the oasis of Siwa. The name of the ancient Berber tribes: Garamantes and Nasamonians are believed by some scholars to be directly related to the name Amon

The Berbers lived in north Africa long before the arrival of the Arabs, and their culture probably dates back more than 4,000 years, their heritage is essentially traceable to Mediterranean European neolithic migrants.



The primary god in Lower Egypt, 'Banebdjedet, the Ram Lord of Djedet' (Mendes), typically depicted with four ram's heads to represent the four souls (Ba) of the sun god. Banebdjedet may also be linked to the first four gods to rule over Egypt, Osiris, Geb, Shu and Ra-Atum, certainly there are large granite shrines devoted to each in the Mendes sanctuary. The Book of the Heavenly Cow describes the 'Ram of Mendes' as being the Ba of Osiris, but this was not an exclusive association.

Roster of Egyptian gods associated with the ram:
• Khnum (among the earliest Egyptian deities)
• Heryshaf (a ram god of Heracleopolis)
• Kherty (variant of Aken, The chief deity in Egyptian mythology)
• Andjety (precursor of Osiris, Auf 'Efu Ra').
• Horem Akhet (god depicted as a sphinx with the head of a man, lion, or a ram)
• Banebdjedet (ram god linked to the first four Egyptian gods: Osiris, Geb, Shu, Ra-Atum)
• Amun (the ram deity that inspired the cult of Ammon)

Ram statues line the entrance to Amun's Karnak Temple



In Chapter 77 of the Chinese dynastic history known as Shiji there are extensive accounts of Mongol ceremonies at the court of the Great Khan including the ‘aspersion with a goblet of mare’s milk’.

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‘Every year the Emperor visited Shang-tu and on the 24th of the 6th (lunar) month he performed a sacrifice called "Aspersion with a goblet of mare’s milk;" one horse, eight castrated rams and nine bolts of varicoloured satin and softened course silk, along with nine ears (of corn) wrapped in white sheep’s wool, and three sable pelts were required . A Mongol shaman, and four Mongol and Chinese ‘intelligent officials’ with the rank of hisiu-ts’ai were under orders to conduct the ceremony.'