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| Title | The Sun Disk |
| Cult Center | Akhetaten |
| Gender | No Gender |
| Patron - Dominion | The only god and creator of the universe - Under Akhenaten rule Only |
| Dedicated temples | Temples in Akhetaten |
| Appearance | the physically visible sun A sun disk with rays which end in hands |
The Aten-disk was venerated as a form of god from the late Middle Kingdom
During the reign of Akhenaten, the Aten was made the king god.
Akhenaten considered Aten as the only god, and creator of the universe,
Beginning with Akhenaten father, Amenhotep III, Aten enjoyed a higher level
of worship, and during Akhenaten reign, for reasons not
entirely clear in the ancient historic record, Akhenaten declared all
other Names invalid and Their priests useless, and ordered
Egypt to worship him as the "Sole One of Aten," who would
then take the people's prayers to His Father (he did not order
them to worship Aten; the texts state that only Akhenaten is
qualified to do this as the Disk's intermediary).
A backlash against the Atenist movement by the priesthood of
Amun after Akhenaten death resulted in the loss of much
of this Name's information in ancient Egypt.
Akhenaten religious reforms, later regarded heretical and reverted by his successor Tutankhamen is the earliest known form of monotheism in Egypt.
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