Feeding the Aten: Akhenaten's Offering Obsession

Podcast: Afterlives of Ancient Egypt with Kara Cooney · Kara Cooney

Opublikowano: 2025-09-26

Akhenaten physically manifested his cult to the sun, building a capital city at a break in the cliffs that created the perfect sunrise hieroglyph on the east bank, a city filled with open air temples into which the sun’s rays could reach directly. He created no statues to represent divine solar power, no intercessor between god and king; the sun’s warmth and light could not be contained in a cult statue. To honor the sun god, Akhenaten created a simple and literal system of giving back what the sun god had given to his people: his Aten temp...