Great Hymn to the Aten Essays

exciting. Read this to see why he became a writer. Akhenaten a Pharaoh in Egypt wrote a story that reflects on his rebellion, personal life, and how he ruled Egypt especially in The Great Hymn to the Aten. Akhenaten’s rebellion against Egyptian culture was one of the main reasons he wrote The Great Hymn to the Aten. At the time when Akhenaten ruled Egypt worshiped many different gods but Akhenaten only wanted to worship one god. The one he worshiped was the sun god Re. Akhenaten renamed the sun

INTRODUCTION The story of Noah’s ark is about a man named Noah who God told that He is going to put an end of all flesh and cover the earth with water. So Noah was found righteous and God ordered him to build an ark and put his family and two of each of an animal, male and female. (Genesis 6:7). Below I am going to compare the film and the biblical scripture of Noah and also explain why the script writers changed the story. SIMILARITIES Like the bible itself the movie begins its story at the very

him with their success and funded many temples (Thompson). On the other hand, Aten was a minor deity and one of many representations of the sun. In fact, the first time he gained promotion was under the previous pharaoh, Amenhotep III (Dodson 3). Yet even under Amenhotep III, who had begun to make the pharaoh more divine, Aten was beneath Amun; however, this would change with his son Akhenaten. And under his reign, Aten would become the center of a religion known as Atenism, where no other god existed

much of this was done by Akhenaten himself (Hornung 1992, 44). Akhenaten viewed Aten as the creator of life, he adapted many revolutionary ideas from pre-existing traditional notions that the sun through its radiation and motion generates time (Assmann 2014, 60). The iconography of Aten was adapted from the god Amun or Amun-Ra of Thebes, this depiction though was in human form. Akhenaten rejected this form and Aten was represented as a disc with descending rays with each ending in a small hand,

the ‘living image of Aten’ thereby sculptors incorporate such characteristics as Aten was the creator of all life. Much of what is known about his reformation comes from inscriptions found in the tombs of his officials. Especially “The Great Hymn to Aten’ inscribed in the tomb of Ay. “O sole god, like whom there is no other” as well as the relationship between Akhenaten and Aten “there is no other who knows you”, implying that Akhenaten was the only mode of communication with Aten. This aspect prevalently

Akhenaton and ordered the worship of the god Aten to be established throughout the country. He commanded his army to erase Amon’s name from any engravings at their temples and to destroy any altars dedicated to him (2). Nevertheless, these changes were instituted in a rather hasty and violent manner, which undoubtedly ended Akhenaton’s regency with a military coup and forced him to flee to southern Sinai before Amon’s priests would kill

walls using pictures as symbols. Oe of the greatest pieces of literature that came about back in that time was the Great Hymn to Aten. “...this hymn celebrates the sun as creator and sustainer of the world and emphasizes the close connection between the god and his human counterparts.” (Norton, 26) Even though its related to their religion, I still feel that this message to the god Aten was very influential to there literary works. When people today first hear ‘Egypt,’ they automatically begin to think