Montu at Thebes
Egyptian Gods and Their Cult Centers

Enrich your trip to Egypt, learn more about the Ancient Gods whose monuments and temples you will s e on your Egypt Tour. Take day tours around Cairo to Memphis and Saqqara for sites of Gods of Lower Egypt. Travel by prearranged speciality excursions for the Gods of Middle Egypt. Many monuments and temples for the God of Upper Egypt are located in and around Luxor. Tours of Abydos and Dendera can be made by special arrangement. Visit other sites in Upper Egypt by Nile Cruise, Elephantine Island, home of Khnum the creator god is located in Aswan.

Montu

Montu

The falcon headed god of war, Montu wears a solar disc, two tall plumes and uraeus. Sometimes Montu is shown with a double Uraeus. Montu was the principle solar god in the nome of Thebes before the rise of Amun. His principle cult center is Hermonthis which was the capital of the Theban nome.

The Kings of the Eleventh Dynasty took his name (Mentuhotep I). When Amun was elevated to "king of the gods" Montu was given the specific attributes of a war god, and the Pharaohs were described in terms of Montu's military prowess and might in their monuments.

While Montu had a precinct in Karnak, he is most famously associated with the Temple of Montuhotep, the Pharaoh who reunited Egypt in the Middle Kingdom.

This temple was in ruins in the bay or Deir el Bahri when Hatshepsut began to build her own famous mortuary temple.

It's architecture influenced the temple or Hatshepsut.

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