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What does Aten mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (Egyptology) the disk of the sun, one of the aspects of Ra.
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But, as has been said, Aten was incapable of this fusion with the local gods.
This son, who preaches the kindness of his father Aten, does not seem to grant himself a margin of a little scheming.
Akhenaten, who tried to impose monotheism with the worship of Aten, the sun disc, later fathered the famed boy king Tutankhamun.
Akhenaten and Nefertiti built a beautiful city near Thebes called Amarna, which was dedicated to the worship of Aten.
These two views are the result of the shift toward the monotheist belief that Aten is the sole god in the cosmos.
In the representations Amarna, he was represented at the ends of rays of sun disk Aten, alternating with small hands.

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