god
Ammon
also: Hammon, Jupiter Ammon
The oracular deity of the Libyan/Egyptian desert; Lucretius discusses the famous spring at the shrine of Ammon, said to be cold by day and hot by night.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of Things §6.22 Hammon
Ammon, the oracular desert deity; the spring at his shrine was famed for being cold by day and warm by night, which Lucretius explains by the earth's contraction at night.