![]() ![]() ![]() Amun was identified with Ra, who was also identified with Horus. These previously separate deities had been merged with each other. The Aten was by this point in Egyptian history considered to be an aspect of the composite deity Ra-Amun-Horus. Aten was the name for the sun-disk itself - hence the fact that it is often referred to in English in the impersonal form "the Aten". The early stage of Atenism appears to be a kind of henotheism familiar in Egyptian religion, but the later form suggests a proto-monotheism. Pharaoh Akhenaten and his family adoring the AtenĪ religious revolutionary, Amenhotep IV introduced Atenism in the first year of his reign, raising the previously obscure god Aten (sometimes spelt Aton) to the position of supreme deity. Akhenaten's chief wife was Nefertiti, who has been made famous by her exquisitely painted bust in the Altes Museum of Berlin. Suggested dates for Akhenaten's reign (subject to the debates surrounding Egyptian chronology) are from 1353 BC- 1336 BC or 1351 BC– 1334 BC. Amenhotep IV succeeded his father after Amenhotep III's death at the end of his 38-year reign, possibly after a coregency lasting between either 1 to 2 or 12 years. Akhenaten was not originally designated as the successor to the throne until the untimely death of his older brother, Tuthmose. He was born to Amenhotep III and his Chief Queen Tiye and was his father's younger son. Beautiful are the forms of Re, the one of ReĪkhenaten (original pronunciation ʔxnʔtn, vowels unknown modern pronunciation axɛnatɛn), known as Amenhotep IV at the start of his reign, was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, especially notable for single-handedly restructuring the Egyptian religion to monotheisticly worship the Aten. ![]()
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