Did he establish the cult of Aten, with himself as single intermediary between this god and the people, to raise himself to a rank higher than his predecessors? |
He is a youth glorious and beloved like Aten, when he shines in the horizon. |
Akhenaten, who tried to impose monotheism with the worship of Aten, the sun disc, later fathered the famed boy king Tutankhamun. |
This son, who preaches the kindness of his father Aten, does not seem to grant himself a margin of a little scheming. |
He clung alike to Evelyn and to Aten as the air-pilot fought to clear a way. |
But, as has been said, Aten was incapable of this fusion with the local gods. |