Aten

Also Aton

Aten touching Akhenaten and Nefertiti During the Old Kingdom the Aten, the Sun Disk, is a heavenly body, which later is identified as an embodiment of Re: His body is Aten. During the New Kingdom the Aten became the Sungod himself.
He was worshipped by the seemingly monotheistically minded Akhenaten in a new type of roofless temple at Akhetaten (El-Amarna, 300 km south of Cairo). Many prefer to speak in this context of monolatry (worship of one single god) rather than monotheism (belief in one single god).
In the beginning of his reign Aten was still depicted as a falcon-headed man, identical with the Heliopolitan Re-Harakhte. Later he appears only as the sun disk, spending life by touching his followers.

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	Der Atonhymnus des Königs Echnaton - hieroglyphs and German translation
	The Akhet Aten Homepage
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