Aten (also Aton, Egyptian jtn) is the disk of the sun in ancient Egyptian mythology, and originally an aspect of Ra. The deified Aten is the focus of the monolatristic, henotheistic, or monotheistic religion of Atenism established by Amenhotep IV, who later took the name Akhenaten in worship and recognition of Aten. In his poem `Great Hymn to the....
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A class of Earth-crossing asteroid.
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In Egyptian mythology, Aten was a sun god, a form of the god Ra, depicted as an enormous red disc from which rays of light emanate, ending in hands.
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ancient Egyptian god of the sun, Aten was also called the creator of man; Aten was born again each day; like the sun, Aten nurtured the Earth and, according to the Book of the Dead, the deceased even called on him to nurture the living with his rays; Aten was depicted as a sun-disk with rays falling upon the Earth.
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The god that gained its prominence during the reign of Akhenaten, who abolished the traditional cults of Egypt and replaced them with the Aten. This created the first monotheistic cult in the world.
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Aton noun the sun (or solar disc) which was the deity of a monotheistic cult under the Pharaoh Akhenaten
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The sun disk, unique god of Akhenaten
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