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Hymn To Aten
Mention Egypt to any North American and instantly images of deserts, pyramids and the sphinx will come to mind. We tend to think of the Egyptian culture in terms of the images portrayed to us through Hollywood movies such as The Mummy and Indiana Jones. Although popular at the box office these films do little justice to the Egyptian culture. The Great Hymn To Aten was a prayer found in a tomb in Akhentaten. What does this prayer lead historians to believe about Egyptian society and the circumstances under which it was written? Does it support the ideas of an Egyptian civilization that valued order, reliability, and agriculture? What was the importance of Akhenaten in the New Kingdom? What is this particular Hymn's value and limitations as a historical source? Is the Hymn restricted in the sense that it does not portray an accurate picture concerning contrary religious opinion?
The Hymn to Aten gives insight into certain aspects of Egyptian civilisation in the New Kingdom. It is an invaluable way to understand Akhenaten's Monotheism. Egypt was stripped of all other gods and given Aten (the solar disk). Aten was as written in the Hymn, "sole god, without another beside." Akhenaten's monotheism stressed the powerful effects that Aten had upon Egypt and that all life was reliant upon Aden "giving breath to all that has been begotten." Other lines within the prayer stress Aten as the "Creator of all Earth" . His actions are essential to human life from the moment of conception through everyday life. In reality, the Nile is the life source of Egypt. It is what made "Egyptian agriculture one of the wealthiest in all the ancient world." The degree of reliance upon Aten as the sole deity is most exemplified by the line, "In the underworld you have made a Nile that you may bring it forth as you wish to feed the populace." The fact that Aten is a solar disk is not surprising as the Hymn enables us to see the importance of...
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