Hermonthis
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The modern town of Armant (ancient Iuny; Coptic: ⲉⲣⲙⲉⲛⲧ Armant; known in Greek as Hermonthis), is located about 12 miles south of Thebes, in Egypt. It was an important Middle Kingdom town, which was enlarged during the Eighteenth Dynasty.
During the New Kingdom, large and impressive temples to Montu were constructed, and in Ptolemaic times, under Cleopatra VII, it became the capital of the local nome. The city remained in use during Coptic times.
Cleopatra's temple remained visible until the Nineteenth Century, when it was recycled to build a sugar factory.
Hermounts, in the Book of Mormon, is the wild country,'that part of the wilderness which was infested by wild and ravenous beasts' (Alma 2:37). It is there that a defeated army was chased to by their victors. The equivalent of such a place name in Egypt is Hermonthis, the land of Month. Month/Montu was an Egyptian god whose name means "nomad". Months was associated with raging bulls,strength and war. Month was also said to manifest himself in a white bull with a black face, which was referred to as the Bakha. Egypt's greatest general-kings called themselves Mighty Bulls, the sons of Menthu. In the famous narrative of the Battle of Kadesh, Ramesses II was said to have seen the enemy and "raged at them like Menthu, Lord of Thebes".
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Nibley, Since Cumorah, 169. See Nibley, Prophetic Book of Mormon, 246?47, 281.
