ADMISSION. - In itself, the term means nothing other than the act or effect of admitting. Since, however, such an act or effect may have repercussions in social life, it follows that the a. of an individual into society, of
inaugurates the dynasty of priest-kings (XXI). Many hymns and prayers to Ammon-Râ have come down to us (cf. A. Erman, Die Literatur der Aegypter, Lipsia 1923, p. 350 sgg.).
The cult of A. subsequently spread into North Africa (Nubia, the Libyan Oases). At Siwa Alexander the Great was proclaimed by the oracle to be the son of A. (332 B.C.). This oracle of A. at Siwa became most famous (hence Marmaricus Ammon, in Claudiano, Eutropio), until the 3rd century A.D. The god spread as far as Greece, where he was identified with Jupiter, whence Zeus-Ammon, “maker of gods and men.” Jupiter A. was confused by the Romans (who therefore wrote Hammon: Virgilio, Aeneis, IV, 198) with the Phoenician god Baal Hammon, honoured at Carthage.
A. is named in the Masoretic text in Nah. 3, 8, and Ier. 46, 25. In Nah. Thebes is called the “dwelling-place of A.” (Nô'-Amôn), in Ier. 46, 25 (and Ez. 30, 10, 15 sg.) Nô'. The Vulgate wrongly translates Nô' in these passages as “Alexandria” and 'Amôn as “populi” (Nah.) or “tumultus” (Ier.).