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. |