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The First Monotheistic Religion? - Akhenaten's Religion of Light
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 26, 2021, 12:17 am
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The First Monotheistic Religion? - Akhenaten's Religion of Light
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> In this video, we talk about the short-lived religion founded
by the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d7UU3C50vE
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Egypt (aka Kemet)
DIR By: SirGalahad
Date: April 17, 2023, 9:14 pm
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I found a curious carving of Akhenaten sacrificing a duck to
Aten:
[img]
HTML https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/544056/1151836/main-image[/img]
At first the carving upset me because of what it was obviously
implying, but then I realized that it looked like his lips were
unmistakably frowning. Most carvings of pharaohs that I remember
seeing, don’t have this sort of facial expression at all. It
makes me envision a scene in which Akhenaten is pressured by
people he knows into doing this ritual, and his emotions at the
time had been accurately carved for posterity.
What do you guys think? Was this a carver staying true to what
he saw? Is this proof that such an act would’ve been
uncharacteristic for Akhenaten? Or is it proof that maybe
Akhenaten wasn’t as kind to non-human animals as we had hoped,
and I’m just reading too much into the facial expression? I
think it’s interesting, because what little material I find
online talking about it, gives a very surface-level description
of the carving. None of them mention the expression on the lips
and (what I presume is) the eyebrow
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Re: Egypt (aka Kemet)
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 19, 2023, 11:42 pm
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Is there any contextual information? How do you even know the
human depicted is supposed to be Akhnaten?
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Re: Egypt (aka Kemet)
DIR By: SirGalahad
Date: April 20, 2023, 2:11 am
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The image was sourced from here:
HTML https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544056
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Re: Egypt (aka Kemet)
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 20, 2023, 2:31 am
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There are too many possibilities regarding who ordered the
carving to be made, who is being depicted in the carving, and
who the intended spectators of the carving are. It is hard for
us to be sure what is going on when so much is wide open.
One theory could be:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun#End_of_Amarna_period
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> At the beginning of Tutankhaten's reign, the royal court was
still located at Amarna, and evidence from his tomb shows that
the Aten was still acknowledged.[52] But several pieces of
evidence suggest that his court was trying to reconcile Atenism
with the traditional religion,[53][54][55] and activity at
Amarna decreased during the first four years of his reign.[56]
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> These years saw dramatic reversals of Akhenaten's policies,
which, given the king's young age, must have been instigated by
his advisors.[57]
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