An Ancient Egyptian god. His meant ‘the hidden one’. Amen became the ‘King of the Gods’ when Amasis I overthrew the Hksos or ‘chieftains of a foreign hill-country’ about 1575 B.C. rivalry with Rā, the sun-god of Heliopolis, was brought to an end by their association together under the one name of Amen-Ra, and the priests of Amen-Ra at Thebes where Amasis made his capital became extremely powerful. Amen was the god of fertility, and images usually showed him with a human head with a cap holding two very tall feathers. The animal sacred to him was the ram with its horns bent back towards its ears. The earliest temple to Amen, at Karnak, grew in the course of the centuries to colossal proportions, while Amenophis III dedicated C. 1400 B.C. a new temple to Amen at Luxor.