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The Aten was the disc of the sun and originally an aspect of Ra, the sun god in traditional ancient Egyptian religion. While the Aten was worshiped under the reign of Amenhotep III, it was made the sole deity to receive state and official cult worship under his successor Akhenaten, though archaeological evidence suggests the closing of the ...
Aten, the god of Atenism, first appears as a god in texts dating to the Twelfth Dynasty, in the Story of Sinuhe. [7] During the Middle Kingdom, Aten "as the sun disk...was merely one aspect of the sun god Re." [5] It was a relatively obscure sun god; without the Atenist period
The Aten was the disc of the sun and was originally an aspect of Ra. [45] See also. Traditional African religion portal; ... A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses.
Amun, creator deity sometimes identified as a Sun god; Aten, god of the Sun, the visible disc of the Sun; Atum, the "finisher of the world" who represents the Sun as it sets; Bast, cat goddess associated with the Sun; Hathor, mother of Horus and Ra and goddess of the Sun
As the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten, Nefertiti played a major role in Egyptian politics. Together, the pair led a religious revolution by abandoning polytheism and promoting worship of the sun god Aten.
The Horus of the night deities – Twelve goddesses of each hour of the night, wearing a five-pointed star on their heads Neb-t tehen and Neb-t heru, god and goddess of the first hour of night, Apis or Hep (in reference) and Sarit-neb-s, god and goddess of the second hour of night, M'k-neb-set, goddess of the third hour of night, Aa-t-shefit or ...
Characters were even interchangeable. Different versions of a myth could portray different deities playing the same role, as in the myths of the Eye of Ra, a feminine aspect of the sun god who was represented by many goddesses. [63] The first divine act is the creation of the cosmos, described in several creation myths.
The Aten thus became an amalgamation that incorporated the attributes and beliefs around Re-Horakhty, universal sun god, and Shu, god of the sky and manifestation of the sunlight. [199] Siliceous limestone fragment of a statue. There are late Aten cartouches on the draped right shoulder. Reign of Akhenaten. From Amarna, Egypt.