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Aten|ˈɑːtən|
Also Aton.
[ad. Egyptian itn.]
One of the names of the sun in ancient Egypt; the name by which the sun or solar disc was worshipped particularly during the reign of Amenophis IV (Akhnaten) in the 14th century b.c. Hence ˈAtenism, ˈAtonism, worship of the Aten.
[1841G. Wilkinson Manners & Customs Anc. Egyptians ser. ii. I. xiii. 297 The name Atin-re cannot fail to call to mind Attin, or Atys, the Phrygian Sun.] 1877Encycl. Brit. VII. 738/1 Amenophis IV..introduced a new religion, the worship of Aten, the solar disk. 1906J. H. Breasted Hist. Egypt xviii. 360 Already under Amen⁓hotep III an old name for the material sun, ‘Aton’, had come into..use, where the name of the sun-god might have been expected... Under the name of Aton, then, Amen-hotep IV introduced the worship of the supreme god. 1925J. W. Jack Date of Exodus i. 20 There is..no connection between the Atenism of that king [sc. Akhnaten] and the religion of Israel. 1933Times Lit. Suppl. 22 June 419/2 The period of the Aten heresy..which may be said to cover a little more than half-a-century down to 1346 b.c. 1935W. Empson Poems 12 Stand, wolf-chased Phoebus..Aton of maggots of reflected girder. 1939A. Toynbee Study Hist. VI. 328 (heading) Atonism. 1961A. H. Gardiner Egypt of Pharaohs ix. 222 A curious addition states that the Mnevis-bull of Hēliopolis should likewise be buried in the Aten's city, another sign how dependent the new Atenism was upon one of the oldest of Egypt's religious cults. |