117: Adoring Ra (or Where Did Akhenaten Get His Ideas?)
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Precursors to Atenism.
The god Aten has a long history; and in the 18th Dynasty, many Egyptians were praising the sun god in a variety of forms (Ra, Atum, Horakhty, Aten, Khepri etc). Akhenaten's reforms were radical, but they have some obvious roots. Looking at several religious texts, side by side, we can see how the sun god became a major, universal deity at this time... (Date = 1400-1360 BCE; King = Akhenaten; Queen = Nefertiti; Location = Thebes and Amarna. Website at www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com , Music by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.com , Sistrum by Hathor Systrum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7pYdPOS4yw ).
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Precursors to Atenism.
The god Aten has a long history; and in the 18th Dynasty, many Egyptians were praising the sun god in a variety of forms (Ra, Atum, Horakhty, Aten, Khepri etc). Akhenaten's reforms were radical, but they have some obvious roots. Looking at several religious texts, side by side, we can see how the sun god became a major, universal deity at this time...
Date = 1400-1360 BCE
King = Akhenaten
Queen = Nefertiti
Location = Thebes and Amarna
Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com.
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Music by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.com
Sistrum by Hathor Systrum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7pYdPOS4yw.
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Aidan Dodson, Amarna Sunrise, 2014.
Jean Saint Fare Garnot, “Notes on the Inscriptions of Suty and Ḥor (British Museum Stela No. 826),” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 35 (1949): 63-68.
James K. Hoffmeier, Akhenaten & The Origins of Monotheism, 2015.
Erik Hornung, Akhenaten and the Religion of Light, 1999.
Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol. 2, 1976.
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OIP, The Tomb of Kheruef, 1980. Online edition at University of Chicago.
Donald B. Redford, Akhenaten the Heretic King, 1987. Online edition at Archive.org.
H.M. Stewart, “A Possibly Contemporary Parallel to the Inscription of Suty and Hor,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 43 (1957): 3-5.
Stephen Quirke, The Cult of Ra: Sun-Worship in Ancient Egypt, 2001.
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