AMMON RA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 10, 13 January 1931, Page 6

AMMON RA.

I was interested in reading your article on "Amnion Ra," because it reminded me of a war incident. In January, 1915, just prior ■to the Gallipoli campaign, a number of the officers and men of the Auckland Infantry Battalion, headed by Colonel Plugge, journeyed up the River Nile to visit Luxor, Thebes and Karnak. These ancient places abound with the mine of old temples. On being shown through one place I asked our guide (a local sheik) the name of the ruin. The sheik pointed up at the walla and said that the temple was dedicated to Amnion Ka. I asked him who Amnion Ea was, and lie replied that Amnion means God of Gods and Ka means the Sun. The temple of the "God of the Sun." I then informed the guide that in New Zealand the natives called the sun "Ka." I then wondered if there was any racial connection between the early Egyptians and the Maoris. Regarding the two-year-old champion Amnion Ka, I took the cue from my Egyptian experience and invested a modest amount on him both at Takapuna and Ellerslie; the aggregate return in dividends more than paid for my trip to Luxor and Thebes. K, M. BESWIOK.