... Glimmering primarily in provincial obscurity at Thebes, the thin fire of his shrine mounted spirally to Râ, fused its flames with his, expanding and uniting so inseparably with them, that the two became one.  Amon means hidden; Amon-Râ, the hidden light.
    In the infinite, time is not.  In heaven there is no chronology.  The date of any god's accession to supremacy there is, consequently, apart from mortal ken.  None the less that of Amon-Râ is known.  At the beginning of the earthly reign of Amonhoteph III., an edict, scrupulously executed throughout Egypt, determined, on monument and wall, the substitution of Amon-Râ's name for that of previously superior gods... (The Lords of the Ghostland, Saltus, 1922).