Amenhotep was worshiped as a god,and called him self king of kings.
Amenhotep changed his name when he excepted the belief in one supreme being. The name Amenhotep derives from the Egyptian god amon.
Amenhotep was not a god, but an Egyptian pharoah. Amenhotep I ruled during the sixteenth century BCE. The gods were often depicted as humans with the heads of birds or other animals, but this appears to have been designed to remind the faithful which god was represented, rather than a true likeness.
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Akhenaten, formerly Amenhotep IV
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Akhenaton
The Egyptian god Thoth never died in myth.
Amenhotep IV was the pharoah or king of Egypt who enforced worship of just one god, Aton Ra, previously a minor god - the god of the sun disc. Amenhotep then changed his own name to Akhenaton (servant of Aton").
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