Unknown God
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The Unknown God or Agnostos Theos is a theory by Eduard Norden first published in 1913 that proposes, based on the Christian Apostle Paul's Areopagus sermon in Acts 17:23, that in addition to the Olym
Saint Paul delivering the Areopagus Sermon in Athens, by Raphael, 1515.
Altar to an unspecified god
Amun
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Amun was a major ancient Egyptian deity who appears as a member of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad. Amun was attested from the Old Kingdom together with his wife Amunet. His oracle in Siwa Oasis, located in W
Unknown God
…The altar is currently exhibited in the Palatine Museum. The idea of an unknown god, however, seems to predate the Greeks. For in Ancient Egypt, Amun was an unknowable god, not only in the sense of his name being unknown, but also his identity or essence. For Plotinus, the first principle of reality…
Amun depicted with Seti I in the temple and Chapel at Abydos
Min in a relief from the reign of Thutmose III from Deir el-Bahari.
Ka-mut-ef, "Bull of His Mother" as a ram-headed lion in the Avenue of Sphinxes at Karnak Temple
Hieroglyphs on the backpillar of Amenhotep III's statue. There are two places where Akhenaten's agents erased the name Amun, later restored on a deeper surface. The British Museum, London