The Birth of Monotheism: Great Hymn to the Aten

[lifeguard212]

amazing monotone



[juneautt]

Please be more monotone. I would have fallen asleep except for the strobe light you call a video. WTF?!

[FTLsFINEST]

Ankhaten the first...know it's nut miss paled...lulz The aten is going to make a come back..All of the afro asiatic languages were written by blacks...hebrew arabic and a few now extinct others...Lulz

[xxdiogenescynicxx]

Sounds just like some of the hymns in the bible.

[knoxvilleguy2]

@xxdiogenescynicxx - Multi - cultural influence. Greek culture even adopted Egyptian gods & Egyptian ideas. Oh, yeah, next time you're near a cemetery or churchyard, look at the obelisks that look like Egyptian obelisks, capped w / small pyramids.

[conejo1988]

@xxdiogenescynicxx

Psalm 104

[juicearibe]

Haha you worship Black African GodS!!!

[Alusnovalotus]

i like the way it was cast in "the egyptian" in the 50's

[Trevtho]

God is a image of man not of the sun. However I cannot argue because the Old Testament was written in 1331 B.C. So it is up to figuring out what is true in your own heart and what you should believe.

[orasis]

ALL POWER TO THE ATEN!

[zacksdaboomking]

i love the beat.

[xXSleepwalker1993Xx]

The Aten isn't really a God, Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV) was the rebel Pharaoh who worshipped the sun-disc of Amun. His Father Amenhotep III was a heavy believer in Amun Re (Ra) and Akhenaten should have followed him, fuck Akhenaten hes a cunt lol.

[juicearibe]

Land of black people Amun.

[Alusnovalotus]

@juicearibe ???

[joie30303]

This is so weird. I've been dreaming of this exact sun ray image over and over since I was a little child. I thought it was Eygptian but I never knew who or what it represented until today. Could you advise me where to get the true information about the worship of Aten? I don't trust wiki.

[helvis213]

@joie30303

Hey there-the wiki article is short but pretty accurate. Google Aten or the Great hymn to the Aten for more information. Look for scholarly articles and books. Check out the Bible's Psalm 104 for the obvious similarities.

You'll be fascinated.

[joie30303]

@helvis213 Thank you the the information!

[catalineas]

Very nice, i remember reading a comparison of this and psalms.

[LukasFyreFury]

Good job. As a believer of Aten you did pretty good but lol ouch now my eyes hurt. After all Aten is actaully the God of the Hebrews.

[helvis213]

@LukasFyreFury

I don't think so. The Israelites don't mention the sun disk. The common root is monotheism...not the Aten.

[ThePerfectashlar]

@helvis213 : The Israelites were not monotheistic. They were monolatrous ("You shall have no other god BEFORE Me" [Exodus 20:3]). In contrast, Atenism attempted true monotheism ("O Sole God beside whom there is none." [Great Hymn to Aten]), even though the people were not ready to surrender worship of other gods, e.g., Ma'at. There are remnants of the ancient Israelite monolatry still today in Christianity when Christians pray or give sacrifices to angels and saints to be intercessory.

[helvis213]

@ThePerfectashlar

True, but you've only got it half right. Archaeology makes it clear, ancient Israelites worshiped more than just one God, YHWH, but as the Old Testament also makes clear, there was a concerted effort to end the practice, like Josiah's reforms and as you know, eventually, those efforts took hold.

Check out my videos about the influence the Israelite's neighbors had on their culture.

[ThePerfectashlar]

@helvis213 : Israel had devolved into pagan worship at some points, to be sure. The Bible confirms this. But the system set forth in the Torah was monolatry (I personally believe that the escaping Israelites had adapted the cosmology of Ptah/Memphis and were fleeing as the Egyptian power center shifted to Thebes and the ascendency of solar worship -- Hence "Rameses" (Ra-moses) v. ?-moses (Ptahmose?)). I'll check your other vids time permitting. Thanks.

[petion2010]

@helvis213 Those efforts never succeeded. The Israelites didn't really adopted monotheism until during the Babylonian exile.

[MegaVladimir1988]

@helvis213 well , Aton sound alot like Adon or adon+ia

[ThePerfectashlar]

@LukasFyreFury : The God of the Hebrews is in fact an Egyptian god (2 Sam 7:6). However, it is highly unlikely it was the Aten, as worship of the Sun was strictly prohibited (Deut. 4:19). Further, the Great Temple to Aten was an open-air roofless temple so adherents could worship the Sun directly. If Aten were the Hebrew god, then one would think that model would be replicated with the Hebrew Tabernacle AND the Temple in Jerusalem. It is not, because Aten is not the God of the Hebrews.

[dragnet53]

aten looks like Obama doesn't he?

[OilyBoily84]

@dragnet53 no

[GodandLiberty]

Where do you get this information from?

[helvis213]

I suppose, in the broad sense, you can call it "history."

Why don't you check it out.

[GodandLiberty]

@helvis213 Sorry, I don't mean the generality of Akhentun, but the specifics of the hymns and all this other type of material. I presume you are a historian working at a prestigious museum in London or New York?

[knoxvilleguy2]

Historically accurate, & a good reference to the similarities between the hymn to the Aten & Psalm 104, but those strobing graphics could cause epilepsy. Other than that, I like it & give it a thumbs up !

[jayinwww]

awesome graphics

[helvis213]

Thank you, sir.