The First Monotheistic Religion? - Akhenaten's Religion of Light
2020 ж. 15 Там.
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In this video, we talk about the short-lived religion founded by the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten.
Thank you very much to the channel "Amazing Places on Our Planet" for allowing me to use his beautiful footage. Link to the channel here: / milosh9k
Sources/Further Reading:
Hornung, Erik (2001) "Akhenaten and the Religion of Light". Cornell University Press.
Hoffmeier, James K. (2015). "Akhenaten and the Origins of Monotheism". Oxford University Press.
#Aten #Akhenaten #Egypt
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It's also interesting to consider that the reason why the Aten became so popular during Amenhotep III's and Akhenaten's rule may have been political moreso than spiritual since Amun's priests in Thebes held an immense amount of power. The pharaohs at the time would've needed to stay on their good side and try to appease them. By demoting Amun, the royal court stripped the Amun priesthood of that power and by making themselves the only conduit between the human and the divine, they conferred it on themselves. It's kinda similar to how Henry VIII made himself head of the Church of England after splitting off from Rome. Political and spiritual power combined in one office and one person. Of course, though, we can't know Amenhotep III's and Akhenaten's exact motivations and a lot of Akhenaten's actions do seem to suggest that he did actually believe in this new religion of his so it may have been a mix of the two or it may have started out as political scheming under his father but then turned into genuine belief under Akhenaten. It's impossible to know but it's fun to think about.
NeonKitty, I think you may have stumbled onto something. Amun's priests did have immense power. Also, under the Amun priests they believed in more than one G-d. Polytheism. Akhenaten didn't bring about monotheism as we know it. Akhenaten only believed that Aten was the only G-d worth worshiping. The clerics didn't like this. The clerics even arranged the murder of Akhenaten. They did arrange for Tutankhamen to become a Pharaoh. Then the religion moved back to what it was before his father saw the light. By the way, when funds went low, the clerics robbed the pyramids and the royals. The only one's untouched were Aktenaten and King Tut. His son. And his wife.
Tought same thing
I don't doubt he believed in it strongly. If he threw the old gods out at all, that is true dedication. Changing his name also indicates this. Also, the priests not only saw this as an attempt on their power, it was, but they also would have seen it as an abandonment of righteousness. The king had thrown out God, basically, and embraced evil. Harlan Abraham, love your name!
@@Svensk7119 I mean, he doesn't seem to have denied the other gods' existence, he "just" stopped worshipping them and closed their temples (thereby stripping their priests of power). But yeah, like I said, I do think Akhenaten probably believed in his new religion (the hymns he wrote for the Aten certainly sound like the words of a true believer). But Aten had already started becoming more popular under his father Amenhotep III and I wouldn't be surprised if that rise in popularity (that eventually led to Akhenaten believing in it) was politically motivated. And some of Akhenaten's religious decision-making may have been influenced by political concerns, as well, even if he truly believed in his new doctrine.
@@neon-kitty I am sure. I just think it is a little cart-before-the-horse. If he truly believed, his political motives would have come from that. They would have reinforced his religion. His father appears to have been slightly lazy, in a poetic sense. (My opinion only, a'course). He fell into one habit of address, when there were so many poeticisms in the language. Maybe he was religiously big for his britches, but that is pure conjecture. Number IV, however.... he went the whole nine yards. And twice again! He sounds like a convert, and there is no zealot like a convert. Changing his name? Check. Altering religious conventions built over centuries? Check. Restructuring his court to accommodate? Check. These drastic changes all sound of conversion. Perhaps he had these beliefs in situ for sometime, but Something had to change for him to bring them forth. The other thing he seems is a narcissist. All he did made himself more important. He seems to have been some degree of unhinged, as well. Somewhere between Sadam Hussein and Adolf Hitler, though I mean that for unhingement only. I have heard nothing of him being murderous.
This is super interesting. Intelligence connects dots without playing pretentious. Thank you for uploading. Cheers 🍃
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You must be a layman when it comes to the knowledge Egypt Kemet the proper name. The speakers information is totally insufficient
Let's Talk Religion why not mention ancient Egypt was a BLACK civilization as opposed to Arab
@@dylanhunt5655 sadly it's true we blacks have gone through merciless humiliation and enslavement for thousands of years and it will continue to be so until we all perish. First it was the Arabs the ' Arabisation', then the ' whites' did it again I guess we were never meant for good things
@@thenostalgicsidekick3076 you humiliate yourself by not knowing world history. Get your mind out of eurocentric history books.. Africans dominated the world for tens of thousands of years with great civilizations. All people on Earth had a bad history of slavery that affected them Europeans Asians an Africans.
Came for the Egyptian heresy, stayed for the nutty comment section. Between the new-age Aten worshipers, the Egypt was African folks, and pyramid skeptics I'm having an absolute blast.
We were kings and shit 😔 lol Africa did conquer Egypt and ruled it for about 200 years
@@mattobu6554 The Kingdom of Kush ruled for a while, not really sure that means "Africa" conquered Egypt, "Africa" only referred to what is today Northern Africa, there was almost no contact beyond the lands of Ethiopia, most of Africa was totally separated from the North for most of history. I don't even get why anyone would try to claim it, there are amazing African empires and complex cultures that existed throughout history, I think everybody just likes the Great Pyramid of Giza. The Copts don't even get their due anymore, everyone fights over the heritage that rightfully belongs to them.
@@theeccentrictripper3863 if egypt had no contact with lands beyond (i assume you mean further south than) ethiopia, i need you to explain the habit of egyptian priests wearing the same leapoard skins as zulu priests. that you dont get why anyone would talk about it it speaks to your own bizarre behavior. egypt is an african country sharing memetic connections to it. what is bizarre is the notion that something else is true here in the 21st century. to acknowledge ancient egypt as an african country is not a denial of any other wonderul achievements in other african countries, but rather to put it in it's proper cultural context
Afro-Asiatic for sure
I remember back in the 1990's that National Geographic did a whole magazine on the African Pharoh's. There are multiple countries within the continient of Africa
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Interestingly, the art from the Akhenaten's time is placed in a separate room in the Egyptian Museum on Tahrir square in Cairo. I wonder if they put it similarly into an isolated room once the museum moves to its new building near Giza plateau.
I would like to go there and find out! 👍🏽
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It bugs me more than it should that when people speak of Tutankhamun they almost all skip over his birth name being Tutankhaten.
@@sfyogagirl7336 wow and my name Fred
To throw people off as usual.
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@@sfyogagirl7336 it’s just a light hearted joke ...it’s not really Fred !!
@@sfyogagirl7336 who died and made you pharaoh?
Regarding the "art style" I always thought he was just depicted realistically... The pharoes were notorious for inbreeding, a deformed frame like that wouldn't be entirely impossible
That's right, just look up the forensic reconstructions of King Tut if you have any doubts
Or the deformation of his legs.
@@jameswoodard4304 He looks like President Obama with hips, lol
@@jameswoodard4304 fair enough, good article, if they have the body, that's proof enough
Sources?
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Those games have better history than a lot of things in like the amethyst whole idea is actually f****** a reality possible watch Laurence Gardner's lecture on his book tour secrets of the Lost thicker darker whatever the f*** for real
I know right being granted access to Wikipedia is a grand undertaking I'm amazed Ubisoft did it
It makes me sad that Humanity has still not overcome Religion and such.
@@slevinchannel7589 cringe atheist
@@grandioso3507 You embarassing yourself makes me giggle
Great presentation and writing
Hi Haedox!
Personalable Ptah came before Impersonable Aten
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Thank you very much for your video! I enjoyed it very much. Extremely well documented, and excellent narration.
Yess, solid. I remember hearing about this pharaoh in my younger days. Very interesting stuff. Cheers for that.
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Ptah was the first monotheist god, and He was from the priests/people in Memphis
Thank you for spreading culture!
Give thanks for the introduction to an understanding of Egyptology.Quite an interesting subject for an enthusiast to follow.
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This revelation is invaluable to me. Thank you for your work. It’s like Akhnaten was a royal lightworker. Ra as a literal sun god vs. Aten as divine light.
Dang, don’t do it like that.😂 right
Ra2 was a nob
And then aten....nob
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Did you know the Bible was a moorish book?
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I really enjoyed your videos on Akhenaten. Maybe it's already been mentioned within other comments, but in the 1980’s Ra the Law of One communicated much on ancient Egypt, including their state of pantheism and some interesting words on Akhenaten, which I feel amalgamates to your research. Many thanks
Yes! I was hoping someone else would mention the Law of One :) I think it is also important to mention the prophecy that Thoth spoke to Asclepius in ‘The perfect sermon’.
Such solid content here - thanks! I tried to visit Amarna while I was visiting Egypt several years ago. Sadly, it's pretty much only possible if you pay off-duty police/soldiers to accompany you. Ditto with Nag Hammadi.
Thank you! Yes I've heard that it's very difficult to get to Amarna, even for archeologists? I had a professor once who specialized in ancient Egyptian language and he was only allowed to visit the site for a few hours.
@@LetsTalkReligion Yeah and apparently it's getting harder and harder. Daesh, may their name be erased, has gotten bolder especially in the Sinai and the interior is pretty unsteady. I expect - with profound disappointment - that I'll never safely be able to visit most ancient near east sites in my lifetime. It's such a profound loss for all humankind and the tragic and sinful result of my country's foreign policy.
It really is a tragedy. I'm still holding on to hope that things will change before we die, but it ain't looking great.
Isn't it on a Military installation??
@@TheEsotericaChannel if western countries stop invading or destabalise countries than that will happen
Subbed! How fascinating! Love the format!
Definitely sparked my interest on the subject. Congratulations!
Imagine the scandal in his day... that even slaves could be rays of the one God. Imagine all the living self proclaimed gods from their past and present being demoted as even equals of non Egyptians. As in all cases religion is political, faith is a different story.
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Faith is what those without talent possess.
@DCE Faith in a religion is STILL FAITH and STILL RELIGION. Never forget that and do not be so haughty about your personal judgements like who is talentless and who is moronic.
Ptah was a monotheist God before the Aten was even considered.
Thanks for sharing this nearly vanquished fraction of egyptian history.
It makes me sad that Humanity has still not overcome Religion and such.
Fantastically presented video full of fascinating information and inspiring visuals. Well done.
Thank you for your unbiased and informative approach on all the various religions you describe. Appreciated. Please do a video on pagan, Slavic, Celtic, etc., ...if you are interested. Either way, well done, and thank you.
It's crazy thinking how much of our own human history we know about. I yearn for knowledge of the old world but who knows if we'll ever fully understand it. Anyways, great video and keep up the great work! I going to be one of those proud earlier subscribers once your channel blows up!
Just read the bible for all the answers of world. There is truth in it. There is a real spirtual war going on.
julie andrade and a lot of lies too 🤷🏽♂️
@@bigshow2cool actual not lies at all. But truth..lol. sadly we are the ones misinformed probably by non believers etc they like to say its lies because frankly that's what they think. I don't go by what peole think but what is true and proven as fact. Bible has proven to be God breathed. I mean that is so cool and nothing in the world is more special then that. Watch Case for Christ if you want truth.
@@julie9541 Another blind sheep, the delusion has worked well on you
@@SleazyRider86 I can say the same for you...hahah. to say we have the knowledge is simply not true...the fact is we will never know. But to claim you have all the answers pretty ignorant. Because nobody knows everything.
Very informative video, learned many new things today, thank you 👌
I'm glad :)
I’m very familiar with the Amarna period, and you did an extremely excellent job here explaining the situation. Bravo,,,
Well presented, mindful, not taking wild tracks, evidence based. Thank you, and peace be unto you.
Very well analyzed. Exactly my sense of what they were worshiping. Fascinating
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I've always thought that most of Akenhaten's reforms reeked of someone wanting to undermine the power of priesthoods and other power structures that he (possibly) felt had gained too much power. From the possible worship of his powerful (and thus likely respected) father, the exclusion of a priesthood in his new religion to the herculean undertaking of building a new administrative capital (which I would deem more easily defended) my admittedly layman opinion is that it's an avenue worth investigating. Remembering that these societal structures weren't completely uprooted and seemingly instituted a reasonably extreme damnatio memoriae after reinstalling themselves after his immediate successors, it's really no wonder why his reputation is lousy. That being said it is extremely likely that the complete societal upheaval resulting from this proposed war against the theocratic organisation would have prevented him from being a competent ruler.
Religion can be a powerful political tool.
@@apalahartisebuahnama7684 religion has always been a powerful political too, perhaps the most powerful one. It is said that the best way to control a population, is by controlling their thoughts and actions. Aka mindcontrol. Thus you have a large army at your disposal. Look at christianity and Islam, hinduism as well. Old pagan religions shows the same.
@@lioness6853 Hinduism was never united and endlessly persecuted because they were never the aggressors. But it is uniting and waking up against this persecution due to the advent of the internet and connectedness.
@@N0Xa880iUL Hinduism is seen as the oldest religion in the world and seems to have been pretty united for centuries.
@@lioness6853 It was not unity as much as the pursuit of truth. The lay people prepared a framework to quell their thirst for meaning and called it religion. But the true spirit of hinduism is in discovery as opposed to dogma. Sure, people will believe in infinite deities but never ever was it forced upon. And I think it was a good thing. The scientific progress in Hinduism was tremendous. Even Ramanujan believed the goddess passed him the theorems in his dreams. Goes to show a genius is not tied to his religion or beliefs.
Yes I love this presentation so beautifully Illustrated please come back and share more so appreciative Agape to you much love
I drew it all myself
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Your channel is very good and informative.
What a fascinating channel you have, great work !!! thank you very much for sharing. Here's some episode requests for u, u might be interested in: Suhrawardi and Illuminationism Mulla Sadr Din Shirazi Hafez Shirazi Rumi & Shams Tabriz Al Ghazali Imam Al Shadhili Al Hallaj Perennialism & Rene Guenon again many thanks and all the best to u.
Can't understand why but I have been obsessed with Akenathen and his family for some time. They were something special more than what history knows.
I too feel a special affinity for Akhenaten, his family and the fascinating Aten. The ankh symbol and the hands at the ends of Aten's life giving rays say so much these thousands of years later. IMO the depiction of the Aten is truly universal symbolism that lasts forever.
@@annalisette5897 I believe so it has special meaning for are current times. Dark gives way to light.
@@grose2272 Additionally, everything is made of light. If subatomic particles are broken down to smaller and smaller parts, photons which are packages of light, are found.
Did you know "rose" that Akhnaton re-incarnated in recent times and did actually do the same - creating a new capital city ? a vision completed in only 3 years against the will of the country's inhabitants. he had the help of Ja-im hatap , reincarnated at the same timespan. a even more controversal theory to delve into is " the cloned akhnaton." there is althoug a dark aspect one has to considder talking Akhnaten and can not be dismissed , akhnaton determined way to create a new capital and a new religion "heliopolis -tel el amarna and the worship of the athen " left egypt devastated and in ruin , and u can imagine the people"s rage towards akhnato'n s followers and servants after the priests gained back power it was a sad dark page in history that can not be forgoten ! but hey , he came back and completed his heliopolis so ....... he was killed again but hey ... he completed his task
Egyptologists ignore every evidence that points to Akhenaten being an openly Lesbian Woman. They had to find other explanations to her feminin features and blame her worship of the Sun as the reason the Patriarchs burried her ideas. It makes no sense.
I wish TV had content this good.
New Kingdom 18th dynasty 3:25 Amenhotep III 5:44 Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) 10:52 Reforms of Akhenaten *Historian (Egyptologist)* : Erik Hornung
The importance of the actual light that sustains our ability to live over personification in deific representation is perhaps the first 'scientific' understanding rather than to be understood as religionist - at least in that past of the World
This religious revolution seems to be the one featured in the classic book The Egyptian. Great read.
You are young and impressive! Good research mate 👏👏👏
Fascinating and well covered
Thank you so much for the video. I'm currently really interested in Aten and through your video Ive learnt a lot. Even if English is not my first language, I understood almost everything.
I’ve always been fascinated by this pharaoh
Awesome work. Great presentation.
Just as informative as a college history class, and not the least bit boring. I know I'm not the only one who pays attention throughout.
Your videos are important. I thank you for this knowledge. We live in a world where we are attempting to get rid of history. It does not matter if the history affects the agenda of others. Historical fact is more important than traditional beliefs . Thank you
It makes me sad that Humanity has still not overcome Religion and such.
Idk man getting rid of religion has only shown to increase suicide rates so I'm not sure it's a good idea 🤷♀️🤷♀️
"Praise the sun! If only I could be so grossly incandescent! I'm searching for a sun of my own you know..." Akhenaten, the original Sunbro
Akhenaten of Astora has a ring to it lol
Wholly fascinating all of the possibilities that this information presents.
It behooves one who enjoys this video to read the book "In Search of Troy" by Chao C. Chien on the subject of Akhenaten. Wonderful analytical work.
Excellent episode. I have often wondered about a possible connection between the monotheistic tendencies of Akhenaten and change to monotheism in Judaism. This is the first show I have seen in which it is mentioned and your mentioning of the similar texts is new information for me. I have always looked at the chronology - the Jewish population in the Levant was polytheistic to a point just after Akhenaten's reign, then it adopted monotheism. Any Jews in Egypt during his reign would have been exposed to monotheism. The migration of the Egyptian Jews to the Levant happened about a century later (c1225 BCE if I recall correctly) which coincides quite nicely with, i.e. preceding the transformation from polytheism to monotheism in Judaism. I am certain there are many published papers - scholarly research - on the topic that would be fascinating to read.
Super interesting when you connect all the dots . The spread of information throughout time and civilization is fascinating
Brian Smith The Jewish religion was always monotheistic. They only worshiped one G-d. The creator of everything. If they believed in multiple G-ds then they could not have been Jewish.
Have you read Friedrich Schiller's Mission of Moses? It could indeed be that Judaism and later Christianity was a 'copy' of this new religion...
@@harlanabraham7772 even in the Bible they had to be told to stop worshiping their other gods. And they were still doing sacrifices to them. In the Bible. So
@@harlanabraham7772 Where did you hear that? There’s extensive documentary evidence of polytheism. They even combined their preferred parts of elder storm god El into younger warrior storm god Yahweh, maintaining the fatherly aspects of El while keeping the aggressive warrior tendencies of Yahweh. This is easily seen when comparing the different aspects of god just in the Old Testament. And don’t get us started on his (basically erased from history) wife Asherah.
12:28 This is exactly what fascinates me about the Aten.
Thanks for the wonderful presentation self. I knew all this already but it could do some good to go viral. all they as you say down with da sickness
Great video, Thank you. Xx
When he says it’s the light and not the disc itself, my first thought was “for the night is dark and full of terrors!” All hail the Lord of Light
Jesus is Lord.
@@voidremoved Piss off. r'hllor the lord of light is the LORD. IT IS KNOWN.
Dude, Gandalf kicked his arse and rode his corpse down a cliff like a bogan on an Esky lid going down a sand dune. He then stole his light bringing abilities.
Allah is the LIGHT of the heavens and the earth. (Quran 24:36)
@@voidremoved Jesus never existed. And Yeshua ben Yosef itinerant rabbi, was not the lord.
Someone needs to make a speculative historical fiction about Akhenaten's life and then make a film of it with a massive budget.
I'm on it🏃🏿
You can see some of this in the 1954 movie "The Egyptian".
I one have a novel where the main characters got time traveled into Akhenaten reign. It narrated the struggle between the old religion and the new religion, with some usual weird quirk like introducing modern technology to the ancients and stuff. But I've lost the novel some years ago lol.
This is just Yu-Gi-Oh!
Great topic. One very little understood outside two or three academic disciplines. We typically make passing reference to it in 101 Art History undergraduate surveys, but it probably gets short shrift.
Nice work captain
Good stuff. Never anger the priesthood ! Liked and subbed :)
It would be interesting to speculate what if Akhenaten's new religion had taken more of a hold for a much much longer period of time...perhaps the whole subsequent history of religions, at least in the Middle East and the Western world, would be quite different!
It did. Read thru the lines. This is the start of Old Testament and Hebrew religion. It’s also Christianity. He claimed to be the son of the sun. He got rid of all gods like god coming down and banishing his ppl
Completely fascinating!
One of my favorite subjects in college. Really interesting!
I clicked on just because I saw the name akhenaten. The guy i remember as the first sun cultist who tried and failed horribly. This is a great vid and youre a great scholar, learnt a lot that I didnt know about him There are several examples of Sun cults appearing and dissapearing in short periods of time. Mithras, Sol Invictus, 卐, etc and others that last longer Apollo, Surya, etc plenty more im forgetting. The ones that burn half as long usually burns twice as bright and are the most interesting ones. More Sun cults coming soon
Sun cults? Bah! The night time is the right time!
The artistic revolution was also so amazing! The Amarna period was so beautiful.
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He persecuted the people and their gods and goddesses followers. How th is religious persecution and discrimination beautiful?
@@per-netjereweclectickemeti93 The art and architecture was really beautiful. And it's amazing to see so much unearthed and better understood. No sane and moral person should find religious persecution as a good or beautiful thing. Nor did I state it was beautiful. I can't wait to learn more from this unique and unexpected period in human history.
your channel is fantastic
Awesome content and presentation
I visited the Akhetaten (Amarna) remains. Unfortunately few remains left.
The ancient Thracian god Zalmoxis was also a monotheistic god; the Greeks mention this....
Egypt is much older then the schools say.
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@@nonegiven8615 I'm not schizophrenic enough to understand this.
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Loved it. 👍
I love how the Assyrian king who sent his representatives to Egypt was like "My brother in Assur, you are literally forcing your men to die under the Sun by building a nonsensical temple."
That's really interesting. If I were to let my mind wander, I would imagine that the idea was definitely radical and had positive effects on society, being a God to ALL beings, not just to specific people, and also showing signs of affection to family has benefits to society. I also couldn't help but think that he insisted his body be represented in a more true realistic manner rather than the standard perfect manly body which we know pharaohs who ate well never had... But yes, this will be deemed heresy since the other gods/patron-saints already have a dedicated following
In Islam we believe all nations received a messenger telling them to worship one God, some accepted and some didn’t.
I came across this after I found videos of Paul Wallis who is a theological researcher. He is tracking down the very origins of all major religions which is just mindblowing. Thanks for your work!
Do u know “golden bough” by Fraser ? Good on origins
I've seen documentaries on Akhenaten but this was the most interesting and plausible.
As indicated in other comments, a follow-up subject would be: "To what extent did mono- or heno-theistic Atenism influence early or proto-Judaism?" After Akhenaten's death, followers of his 'monotheistic' religion may have been forced to flee...and the next country over is Canaan. Some, including the psychologist Freud, have tried to connect this era to the Exodus narrative. However, Moses was not a historical figure (while his name is similar to that of the earlier Pharaoh Ahmosis I, this may be coincidental) and there is no archeological evidence for the Exodus narrative. This explanation also fails to include the various Canaanite gods (El/Elohim, Ba'al, etc) which play an important role in the Old Testament stories. Still, Egypt ruled over Canaan during Akhenaten's reign, so presumably Canaanites were strongly exposed to his religion during that time. A henotheistic or monolatrist form of Canaanite religion may thus have formed in Canaan via standard religion syncretism, without the need for any migration per se. A fascinating topic! Thanks for the video.
I personally think we can rule out the fact that Atenism was henotheistic, consider how in that time the names and records of other gods were wiped and discarded and weren't allowed to be worshipped, he didn't exactly ever deny their existence, and what is the definition of henotheism? The belief that there is more than one deity but only one of them is supreme, the others are worshipped but not to the extent of the supreme one; but then comes monolatriesm, i think this is the more likely, consider how like i said Akhenaten didn't exactly ever deny the existence of the other gods, he just didn't allow it and refrained from worshipping anyone but Aten. Of course this is just my opinion.
Thanks for sharing this info. In my opinion, the theory that there may have been some connection between Atenism and early/proto-Judaism is way more plausible than a lot of people admit.
@@seefoe5Actually that is true... :) But they wouldnt admit it cuz bible mentions ramsey the 2nd 🤐
This was around the same time that prophet Joseph(as) came to become the governed of Egypt and hence influenced Amenhotep IV to become a monotheist, in which Aten represented the One God
My thoughts exactly. By the way..... You are beautiful @nadine chamas.
What is your source for this grand claim?
Exactly... was scrolling to see if it would be pointed out
I came for the scholarly quality of your work, I stayed for the only appropriate use of the Papyrus-font on the Internet!
Awesome, I'm subbing. My favorite part of history is religion.
He looks like Scottie Pippen
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Or Arsenio Hall, maybe. :)
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She is not a man, she is a female. Her crime wasn't Monocrap, her crime was being openly gay married to a female, getting pregnant in unknown way and revolutionalizing Egyptian Social Construct. Those were her Crime and the Patriachs took extreem measures to bury her ideals. You can call her the Ancient Egyptian Feminist Leader.
@@goddyfame3424 Ew
When I first learned about this at the Met in NY, I was blown away
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Oh my goodness, thank you for saying “raises the question” instead of the (incorrect) “begs the question.”
Great video