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Akhenaton
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The Great Mystery of Akhenaton
Akhenaton
was the great enigma of the eighteenth dynasty.
He ruled Egypt for about 25 years in the middle of the 13th century BC
and for a great part of that time had with him his consort the beautiful
Nefertiti. What
was the enigma of Akhenaton? Why
did his reign cause such disruption in the history of Egypt?
His reign and the period immediately after it is referred to as the Amarna
Period because for some mysterious
reason he moved his court to that place which is equidistant between Thebes, the
great city of Amon, the Lord and Giver of Life and Heliopolis, near Cairo
the even more ancient center of the worship of Ra. The
King’s new religion, the worship of the Aton, was more akin to the solar cult
of Ra but it was in many ways different. The
king ultimately forbade the worship of God in any other form and closed down the
other temples in Egypt that were not dedicated to the Aton. What
exactly was the Aton? And
what made the King so dramatically change the religion of his empire as a result
of him ‘seeing the light’ is open to conjecture and is one of the greatest
mysteries of Egypt’s history. It
was not quite the same thing as Henry VIII wanting an annulment of his marriage
to Catherine of Aragon and forming his own Church in order to achieve his end. Akenaton’s spiritual metamorphosis from Amenophis IV, as he was known upon ascending the divine throne of Horus to Akhenaton, was a process of religious and spiritual upheaval within himself. It was as if he, like St. Paul, had seen a blinding vision, which changed his life and caused him to impose the true religion of the worship of the Aton upon his people.
The
King spent the rest of his life in his pleasure palace and worshipping at the
great temple of the Aton at Amarna. He
ordered all the court artists to depict everything in a more realistic form. It
is this that has led to speculation about the form of the king, for he is
depicted as having female hips and breasts. Yet he certainly was male for he
sired no fewer than six daughters and it is not beyond the realms of possibility
that Tutankhamun was his son! What
was the Aton? It was the life
giving force behind the solar disc. Rays
that emanated from the solar disc, which terminated in benevolent hands holding
an ankh, represented it. This
sandal strap is the hieroglyph for life. Even
today, the Coptic Church uses this as a form of the cross, which in real terms
is a statement that Christ, through His death on the cross, has given us life
eternal! Who
was Akhenaton? This is the ultimate
question, for his depiction with female hips and breasts is accompanied by
another very strange feature. He
and his children, all have a very much-elongated skull and a very strangely
shaped face with slanting, almost slit eyes and thick lips.
So many first hand encounters with alien crafts report the beings as
having many of the features of Akhenaton!
Could he have been a genetic throw back to the race of Osiris? Unfortunately, the
mummy of Akhenaton does not exist. If
it did, then we would be able to examine his skull and also his genetic
composition. The skull
of Tutankhamun is in the Cairo Museum, and its protrusion at the back is
somewhat large! |
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