Amon

Japanese: アモン（英語表記）Amon

One of the chief gods of ancient Egypt. Amon means "mystery". He is also called Amun. Originally, he was only a local god of Thebes, but when the 12th Dynasty unified the kingdom with Thebes as its capital, his worship spread throughout Egypt and he merged with Re, the supreme sun god of Heliopolis, and became "King of the Gods" under the name Amon-Re. For this reason, the Greeks identified him with Zeus. Amon's power reached its peak in the New Kingdom, but faded away with the religious reforms of Akhenaten. After the death of the king, he was revived, and during the 21st Dynasty, Amon's high priest became the leader of the Theban priests. His spouse was Mut, the mother of the gods with the head of a lioness. He was first depicted as a ram-headed god, and after the Middle Kingdom, he was depicted as a human with a pair of long feathers on his head and a drooping beard. His sacred animals were the ram and the Nile goose.

Amon
Ammon, Alfred

Born: June 1, 1883.
[Died] 1962
Austrian economist. He studied at the University of Vienna and served as professor at Freiburg, Czernowitz, Graz, Prague, Tokyo (1926-29), and Bern. He started out as a member of the Austrian school, and took a position on price theory quite close to that of G. Cassel, contributing to the spread of general equilibrium theory. He also made a great contribution to nurturing young researchers in the infancy of the history of modern Japanese economics. His main work is "Object and Basic Concepts of Theoretical Economics" (11), and many others.

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Japanese:

古代エジプトの主神の一柱。アモンとは「神秘」の意。アメンともいう。元来テーベの地方神にすぎなかったが，第 12王朝がテーベを首都として統一王国をつくった頃，その崇拝は全エジプトに広がり，ヘリオポリスの最高太陽神レーと融合し，アモン・レーと呼ばれ「神々の王」となった。この点から，ギリシア人は彼をゼウスと同一視した。アモンの勢力は新王国にいたり頂点に達したが，イクナートンの宗教改革で影をひそめ，再び王の死後復活し第 21王朝時代には，アモンの最高祭司がテーベの祭司の先頭に立った。配偶者はムートという雌ライオンの頭をもつ神々の母。初め羊頭の神として表され，中王国後は一対の長い羽飾りを頭に載せ，顎ひげを垂らした人間の形で表された。聖獣は雄ヒツジとナイルのガチョウ。

アモン
Ammon， Alfred

[生]1883.6.1.
[没]1962
オーストリアの経済学者。ウィーン大学に学び，フライブルク，チェルノビッツ，グラーツ，プラハ，東京 (1926～29) ，ベルンの各大学教授を歴任。オーストリア学派から出発し，価格理論については G.カッセルにかなり近い立場を取り，一般均衡理論の普及に貢献。日本の近代経済学史の揺籃期にあって，若手研究者を育てた功績も大きい。主著『理論経済学の対象と基礎概念』 Objekt und Grundbegriffe der theoretischen Nationalökonomie (11) ほか多数。

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