American Lectures On the History of Religions volume 4
American Lectures On the History of Religions volume 4
Jastrow, Morris, 1861-1921
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Been crowned upon the throne when he made his attempt to advance the honour of the new god throughout the land. He openly professed himself, and that even in his royal style and title, as the " first prophet " of this remarkable god, and commanded that a great and magnificent shrine should be built to the latter at Thebes, in the immediate neighbourhood of Amon's temple. In the reliefs which adorned its walls the new god was represented exactly like the old Re-Horus, in the form of a man with t...he head of a hawk, wearing for a crown the sun encircled with the uraeus-serpent. In Memphis, too, and in other cities temples were built to the many-named Re-Horus or the "solar disc, " as he was shortly named — in Egyptian Aton. In Middle Egypt, in the region now named el- Amarna, after a tribe of Bedouins, he even received a special sacred district, a kind of State of the 58 The Religion of the Ancient Egyptians Church, which was known as the Ekhut-Aton, that is, " horizon of the solar disc.
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