AKHENATEN/TUTANKHAMUN

[Bianca]

Don't believe my "lieing eyes", Majeston?  Look at this statue of Nefertiti in later life.
See the shape of the skull?  They all have THAT in common!  YOU know that!

As for the SON-IN-LAW:  I have already said Tutankhamun WAS Akhanaten's son-in-
law ALSO.  He married his own sister/half-sister, as was the custom of Pharaohs un-
til his grand-father Amenophis III married Queen Tiye (obviously NOT a relation) and
maybe Akhenaten who married Nefertiti, who may or may not be his relative.
  Nefertiti's origins are still not established.

Love and Peace,
b
and they are still being researched.

[Bianca]

Hi, Sevens:

Thank you for your input.  I am not sure that that picture makes things any clearer.

The Ka is usually pictured in Funerary Rites. 

We could compare the Ka to the Roman Catholic belief in a "Guardian Angel'.  Or, in Greek
times, Socrates' "Daemon".

Among "New Agers" it is referred to as the "Etheric Body".

Who knows, maybe it's Psychiatry's "Id" or "Anima". 

Love and Peace,
b

[Majeston]

Don't believe my "lieing eyes", Majeston?  Look at this statue of Nefertiti in later life.
See the shape of the skull?  They all have THAT in common!  YOU know that!

As for the SON-IN-LAW:  I have already said Tutankhamun WAS Akhanaten's son-in-
law ALSO.  He married his own sister/half-sister, as was the custom of Pharaohs un-
til his grand-father Amenophis III married Queen Tiye (obviously NOT a relation) and
maybe Akhenaten who married Nefertiti, who may or may not be his relative.
  Nefertiti's origins are still not established.

Love and Peace,
b
and they are still being researched.

Bianca,

gotta love that head !
too many maybe's and may's and may not's.  Nobody describes a person as the son-in-law

when he is actually the son as well;  not even celestial beings.  "son"  always takes priority

over son-in-law.  Obviously Tut was not his son but also had the "head" of the royal line denoting

his genetic inheritance through another father and mother.  Iknahton was not the only one with

the enlongated head.  Trust revelation for truth  Bianca and you will find truth.


Figure 4. Ancient Maya ‘ upper class’  adult skull. Photograph: Colette M. Dowell
 Courtesy: National Museum of Anthropology, Merida, Yucatan.
 


The figure is dressed as a vizier.this image which is said to be of Aye.
 It looks like it stems from the Amarna age.
 

[Bianca]

Majeston:

TO EACH HIS OWN.......

"Truth" is what resonates in one's soul......

B

[Bianca]

                                                        A K H E T A T E N


                                         HORIZON - PLACE OF THE LIGHT OF ATEN




                           




Legend has it that Akhenaton was sure that the site he had chosen for the Aten's new city was the right

one when he witnessed the sunrise between two hills at its Eastern Horizon........





   

[Bianca]

FROM


AKHENATEN AND THE RELIGION OF LIGHT

Erik Hornung
Translated by David Lorton






STELA S




A   C I T Y   F O R   A   G O D



First, Akhenaten set up Boundary Stelae around the place he had chosen for his future royal
Residence, so as to delineate its intended area with du solemnity.  The fourteen stelae - three
on the west bank of the Nile and eleven on the east bank - staked out an extensive area,
though the actual city would lie only on the eastern bank, where the cemeteries are also to be
found.

The "Beautiful West," up to then the realm of the dead, would no longer play a role.

The date on the three earlier stelae can be reconstructed as the thirteenth day of the fourth
month of the season PERET, in the fifth regnal year of the king.  It thus falls only one brief month
after that of a letter sent from Memphis by the administator Ipi, a nephew of the vizier Ramose,
to the king, who was probably already encamped at Amarna. 

In this letter, Ipi informs the monarch, who was still called AMENOPHIS, that all was well in the
temple of Ptah at Memphis and that the prescribed offerings were being carried out in their en-
tirety for all the gods and goddesses of Memphis, with nothing being withheld from them.


All this was being done in the name of the king, and Ipi designated the king's relationship to PTAH
 
as :          'YOUR TRUE FATHER, FROM WHOM YOU EMERGED'


                                

                                                               P T A H

[Bianca]

[Bianca]

A CITY FOR A GOD



                     
                                   Boundary Stela - Year 5

We owe a scenario for the founding of the new capital to the American astronomer Ronald
Wells, who has studied the orientation of Egyptian temples.  According to him, the date chosen
was that on which, for an observer, the rising sun shone directly into the length of a small tem-
ple, that is, the mortuary temple of the king, from an indentation in the eastern horizon, where
the desert valley that was to contain the royal tomb opened up into the broad plain of Amarna;
around 1350BC this day was March 4 in the Julian Calendar, or February 20 in the Gregorian.

It well suited Akhenaten's religion of light that the foundation date occurred when the Aten emer-
ged from the valley that the king had earmarked for his own and his family's tomb, flooding with his
light the plain where the city was to lie.  Well's assumption is, thus, attractive, but it has also
found objections: the temple axis has in no way been established that exactly, nor is it clear just
how sunrise was defined in those ancient timeS. Still, the very name of the new Residence, AKHETATEN
or "Place of the Light of Aten" is programmatic, referring to the sun as a HEAVENLY BODY.

           

[BlueHue]

DEAR... BIANCAS2001,

NICE book, nice layout archaeologist Fletcher also made a similar book, the Title King of the Sun may be erroneous this Athen was the Moon which was encircling Earth as a captured sattelite before it 'settled'down remember ther are Myths of a 'Moonless'Earth

"BlueHue" ( Sad isn't it ??)  = 

[Bianca]

Thank you, BlueHue.
B

[Bianca]

                 


The remaining boundary stelae are dated exactly a year later, on the same date in year 6; three of them delineate a broad district on the west bank of the Nile, though nothing was ever built on it.  The entire extended district was solemnly dedicated to the new god, "with (its) hills, deserts, fields and towns, with (its) people, animals and vegetation", as the texts  of the stelae put it. 

This presentation to the god was reinforced by a solemn oath that the king swore by the life of the Aten, and also by that of his wife and his children.

He dedicated the new capital to the Aten "as a monument to his name for all time"-thanks to divine inspira-
tion, for the god himself had shown him this place, that fulfilled his ideal requirements. 

No god and no goddess, no ruler of olden times, could lay claim to this place, which was entirely unspoiled,
a pure environment for the rays of the Aten.

This was a place where the Aten and his beloved son and preacher could rule alone, where its inhabitants could devote themselves entirely to the service of the pharaoh and his god, unburdened by any traces of the past.  Here, the perfect realization of the new religion was at last possible; in the years that followed,
it would become ever purer, but also ever more extreme. 

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                   Remains of the Great Temple at Amarna - Columns are reconstructed

The desert terrace on the east bank, crisscrossed by a few shallow depressions, offered a site well suited to the indented metropolis.  First, a camp was set up, as noted in the later text of the stelae of year 6; from there, the king was able to inspect the construction work when he visited.  The work progressed quickly, the
repetition of the king's oath in his eighth regnal year might indicate the court's move to the new Residence at that early date.  We must imagine a gigantic construction site already in year 5, and this was the year when the regular deliveries of wine to the Aten's city commenced.  In year 6, Amun's domains in the delta still parti-
cipated in the supply.

                     
                               
                       Digital reconstruction of the Great Temple

[Bianca]

             
                WELL AT AMARNA

[Bianca]

GLASS KILNS

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AMARNA - GREAT PALACE AND THE RIVERBANK OF THE NILE - Digital Reconstruction