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#History #Egyptology #Echnaton
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Sounds great.

It is the same person, though. #Echnaton 1) changed the name because #Amenophis is a tribute to the "household " god of the pharaohs, #Amun,* who reigned in #Thebes.

By one account, he broke the stranglehold of the priests of Amun, who had become too powerful, by making the sun god #Aton/ #Aten, the one and only god and him it's sole interlocutor.

Furthermore,...

1)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amun

@paninid @Outmazi @Beachbum

As I can't decipher anything and as I am a fan of #Egyptology, is #Amenophis IV/ #Akhenaten/ #Akhenaton/ #Echnaton, the inventor of #monotheism in your table?
In particular, is there a connection to the #Abrahamic religions?
As the heretic pharaoh was later on expunged from history by his successors and the #Amun priests as much as possible, I have often wondered whether this radical concept survived this severe punishment..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten

@paninid @Outmazi @Beachbum

Egyptian pharaoh in 18th Dynasty

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