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The Siwa Oasis (Arabic: واحة سيوة Wāḥat Sīwah [ˈwæːħet ˈsiːwæ]) is an urban oasis in Egypt.It is situated between the Qattara Depression and the Great Sand Sea in the Western Desert, 50 kilometres (31 mi) east of the Egypt–Libya border and 560 kilometres (350 mi) from the Egyptian capital city of Cairo.
English: Siwa's ancient role as the home to an Oracle of Ammon, the ruins of which gave the oasis its ancient name Oasis of Amun Ra. The Siwa Oasis (Siwah, Isiwan), an oasis in Egypt to the east of Great Sand Sea (Western Desert), about 50 km east of the Libyan border, one of Egypt's most isolated settlements.
The so-called Libyan Sibyl was identified with prophetic priestesses presiding over the ancient Zeus-Amon (Zeus represented with the horns of Amon) oracle at the Siwa Oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt. The oracle here was consulted by Alexander after his conquest of Egypt. The mother of the Libyan Sibyl was Lamia, the daughter of Poseidon.
In Siwa Oasis, located Western Egypt, there remained a solitary oracle of Amun near the Libyan Desert. [3] The worship of Ammon was introduced into Greece at an early period, probably through the medium of the Greek colony in Cyrene, which must have formed a connection with the great oracle of Ammon in the Oasis soon after its establishment.
According to Herodotus 3.26, the Persian king Cambyses II sent an army of 50,000 men to threaten the Oracle of Amun at the Siwa Oasis around 524 BC. These soldiers had made it halfway across the Western Desert when they were all buried by a catastrophic sandstorm. [1] [note 1]
The oracle of Zeus Ammon at Siwa Oasis was so famous that Alexander the Great visited it when he conquered Egypt. There was also another oracle of Zeus Ammon at Aphytis in Chalkidiki. [25] The oracle of Zeus at Olympia. [26] In the city of Anariace (Ἀναριάκη) at the Caspian Sea, there was an oracle for sleepers. Persons should sleep in ...
Jojo Siwa, Chloe Fineman Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for GLAAD;Raymond Hall/GC Images/Getty Images JoJo Siwa reacted to Chloe Fineman’s “iconic” impression of her during the Saturday, May 4 ...
The Libyan Sibyl, named Phemonoe, was the prophetic priestess presiding over the Oracle of Zeus-Ammon (Zeus represented with the Horns of Ammon) at Siwa Oasis in the Libyan Desert. The term sibyl comes (via Latin) from the ancient Greek word sibylla, meaning prophetess.