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The Mouflon or Argali is a very large mountain sheep (Ovis aries formerly Ovis musimon, Ovis ammon and others) found wild in Cyprus, Corsica, Sardinia and from Siberia to the Himalayas. It stands about 70 centimetres tall and has woolly under-fur in winter, but this is covered by heavy guard hairs. The coat is reddish brown with a white belly and rump. Males have enormous strong, curving horns reaching 120 cm in length which almost form a circle 55 cm in circumference.
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Amen is an alternative spelling of Ammon.
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Ammon was an ancient Egyptian god. He was depicted as a human with a ram's head or simply with the horns of a ram. He was one of the chief gods, and was adopted by the Greeks as Zeus and the Roman's as Jupiter.There was a celebrated temple of Ammon in the Oasis of Siwah in the Libyan desert.
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Amun is an alternative spelling of Ammon.
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Ammon is a city in Bonneville County, Idaho, USA.
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Niut Ammon was the Egyptian name of the city of Thebes.
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