 At other times it joined gods with very different natures, as when Amun, the god of hidden power, was linked with Ra, the god of the sun.The resulting god, Amun-Ra, thus united the power that lay behind all things with the greatest and most visible force in nature.Many deities could be given epithets that seem to indicate that they were greater than any other god, suggesting some kind of unity beyond the multitude of natural forces.