AKHENATEN 3

when Akheaten collapsed 17 years later after this rebellious movement , Most of the conservative old style priests and their followers thought this heresy is gone for ever , specially when they ruined every thing that they could destroy : Names of the new god , his king and queen (s) ad his new capital Akhetaten .

1st point whatever they did was Just a payment for what the heretic king has done to the old gods specially Amen and his temples , and of course to other old style gods , that include removing their names out of tombs – and that is a very serious crime to disturb the peace of the dead –
2nd point who can blame them after losing their jobs , treasures , and of course overwhelming power :
the holy priests of gods whom the sun rise because of them and the river Nile flood according to them .
the holy star of Isis ” Sepdet ” Sirius which indicate the New Egyptian Year and the flood is determined by them
who tells farmer when to seed , what to seed but them ??
and then this Heretic forbid them all of that , and chased them like criminals .

any way after many centuries the Hymns Akhenaten sang them to his Aten was kept alive till today , or parts of it

The similarity between the great Hymn of Aten and the psalm 104 after it was discovered and translated was very amazing that it drove many to think it was stolen from Aten great Hymn .

for example The well known psychologist Sigmund Freud thinks Moses was Egyptian believed in Aten and transferred his believe to his new people , even more he thought The God Name (Adonai ) is from Aton ,
Well , He is a great psychologist but NOT an archaeologist
in his book he confuses Hur “son of Osir and Isis ” with Hur em akhti one of sun gods
he even ignore the fact that the name Of God Adonai was used later because Jewish made the Older Name Jehovah too sacred to pronounce and became very possessed with this commandment
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord ((יְהוָ֥ה (Yah·weh) )) thy God in vain
and that is strange that Freud as he himself from a Jewish origin did NOT know that the 10 commandments used the Name Jehovah Not Adonai as he mentioned in his book

Moses and Monotheism

even more , many muslims today think Akhenaten is a prophet in islam many think he is The prophet Idris
others say he is Abram

Any way, However the way the great Hymn of Aten survived and reached many foreign land and stayed alive in hearts and tongue for many centuries and inspired many poets , philosophers , Religious people till now , the deepness , the deep green connection to the nature .
The emotion that Akhenaten poured into words , that many felt and inspired by .

and still with Akhenaten
To Be Continued
By Lawrence W William