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One of the lost religious visionaries of history is Akhenaten. I'm sure many here are familiar with him; for those who aren't he attempted to institute a monotheistic faith in the god "Aten" and initially saw success. Unfortunately his faith did not long survive him and he was purposefully wiped from records and simply referred to as "the enemy." Today his wife Nefertitti and son Tutenkhamen are far better known.
Some even theorize his grandfather was Joseph, son of Jacob, and Freud even claimed that Moses was an Atenist priest forced to flee Egypt in the wake of Akhenaten's death. Akhenaten wrot the Great Hymn of Aten below:
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Some even theorize his grandfather was Joseph, son of Jacob, and Freud even claimed that Moses was an Atenist priest forced to flee Egypt in the wake of Akhenaten's death. Akhenaten wrot the Great Hymn of Aten below:
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</DD></DL><DL><DD>How manifold it is, what thou hast made! <DD>They are hidden from the face (of man). <DD>O sole god, like whom there is no other! <DD>Thou didst create the world according to thy desire, <DD>Whilst thou wert alone: All men, cattle, and wild beasts, <DD>Whatever is on earth, going upon (its) feet, <DD>And what is on high, flying with its wings. </DD></DL><DL><DD>The countries of Syria and Nubia, the land of Egypt, <DD>Thou settest every man in his place, <DD>Thou suppliest their necessities: <DD>Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned. <DD>Their tongues are separate in speech, <DD>And their natures as well; <DD>Their skins are distinguished, <DD>As thou distinguishest the foreign peoples. <DD>Thou makest a Nile in the underworld, <DD>Thou bringest forth as thou desirest <DD>To maintain the people (of Egypt) <DD>According as thou madest them for thyself, <DD>The lord of all of them, wearying (himself) with them, <DD>The lord of every land, rising for them, <DD>The Aton of the day, great of majesty.</DD></DL>