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The Great Hymn to the Aten is the longest of a number of hymn-poems written to the sun-disk deity Aten. Composed in the middle of the 14th century BC...

Inscriptions, such as the "Great Hymn to the Aten", found in temples and tombs during Akhenaten's reign showcase the Aten as the creator, giver of life,...

in hands) appear to represent the unseen spirit of Aten. Aten was addressed by Akhenaten in prayers, such as the Great Hymn to the Aten: "O sole God beside...

resemblance to Akhenaten's Great Hymn to the Aten, written some 400 years earlier in Egypt. The following table shows the Hebrew text of the Psalm with...

Shu, god of the sky and manifestation of the sunlight. Akhenaten's Atenist beliefs are best distilled in the Great Hymn to the Aten. The hymn was discovered...

painted black, which symbolized the fertile soil of the Nile. In Hymn to Min it is said: Min, Lord of the Processions, God of the High Plumes, Son of Osiris...

are strikingly similar in language to those later used, in particular, the Hymn to the Aten: When thou crossest the sky, all faces behold thee, but when...

Isis found the baby helped by the dogs which with great difficulties lead her there, she raised him and he became her guard and ally by the name of Anubis...

was said to lie just below the horizon line, trying to devour Ra as Ra traveled through the underworld. Aten Aten was the focus of Atenism, the religious...

of the dead Apis – A live Bull worshiped as a god at Memphis and seen as a manifestation of Ptah Aten – Sun disk deity who became the focus of the monolatrous...

worship of Aten during the reign of Akhenaten. The Graeco-Roman texts emphasize the Ogdoad cosmogony, where Amun (the bull) and Amunet (the cow) are primordial...

Yoyotte, Jean, Une notice biographique du roi Osiris, BIFAO 77 (1977), p.145 Hymn to Osiris Un-Nefer, Translated by E.A.Wallis Budge Budge, E.A. Wallis; 1901...

The Great Temple of the Aten (or the pr-Jtn, House of the Aten) was a temple located in the city of el-Amarna (ancient Akhetaten), Egypt. It served as...

of the power associated in the concept, Akhenaten, in introducing monotheism, said that Shai was an attribute of Aten, whereas Ramses II claimed to be...

their souls. In The Great Second Hymn to Khnum, the hymn depicts Khnum-Ra sailing across the sky to establish pillars with goddesses in the south, north...

and canals. From the New Kingdom a similar festival was held in Thebes, which rivaled the great Opet Festival. Other events during the festival including...

are hymns with Greek texts. Ancient Eastern hymns include the Egyptian Great Hymn to the Aten, composed by Pharaoh Akhenaten; the Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal;...

Egypt's earliest temples was the shrine of Nekhbet at Nekheb (also referred to as El Kab). It was the companion city to Nekhen, the religious and political...

the god Wepwawet ("opener of the way"). The Second Day, The Great Procession of Osiris: The body of Osiris was taken from his temple to his tomb. The...

educates the ignorant to wisdom, and those who are unloved become as those who are loved. He causes the lesser folk to emulate the great, the last become...