Why did Akhenaten start his religious revolution?
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Akhenaten's Religious "Reforms"
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BelovedofWa'Enre
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:41 pm |
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Joined:Sat Oct 07, 2006 4:49 pm Posts:54 Location: Akhetaten
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Tutness has a point-you do have to look at it from both sides, from Akhenaten's point of view and from the Priests of Amun's....It seems, from newer books and such, that most are tending to lean toward Akhenaten doing all the "reforms" because of political reasons, which others have already mentioned, but I think it went beyond that. Some scholars used to say that he was mentally unstable....(Which totally erks me.) Then, you've got scholars like Weigall who say that it was purely religious. I, myself, say it was both. His "reforms" killed two birds with one stone in a way. He's following his own beliefs, but at the same time he's cutting down the threat of the Amun priesthood. (I back Akhenaten in the view that they had WAY too much power. When a temple to a god owns about a third or more of the country...yeah, it's time to do something, and who better to do that than a Pharaoh who had religious convictions as well?)
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