The pharaoh AkhenAten - the Aten was the Sun God.
The Egyptian sun disk was called Aten.
Aten in ancient Egyptian; in Egypt's now-official language of Arabic : شمس
Around 1348 B.C.E., in ancient Egypt. This corresponds to Pharaoh Akhenaten's reign, year 5.
Amenhotep IV took decisive steps to establish the Aten as the exclusive, monotheistic god of Egypt
The 'Aten' was scribed as a solar discus on top of several image representations of deities in Ancient Egypt. The 'Aten' was thought to be a sphere of energy with characteristics. The living image of such thing would be a transliteration of the character and composition of the energy it self into human form.
Devoted to Aten in Egypt
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Before he came to power, his father, (I forget), made Egypt worship only one god, Aten, the Sun God. After his death, Tutankhamen erased all traces of Aten where his father put them, and soon, his father's dilemma became but a memory
The pharaoh Akhenaten made everyone in Egypt worship Aten.
For most of its history ancient Egypt was a polytheistic culture (it had many gods) but the Pharaoh Akhenaten introduced a monotheistic religion which recognised only one god, The Aten. After the death of Akhenaten and his immediate successors the old polytheistic religion was reintroduced
Nefertiti worshiped the Aten, a form of the sun god in ancient Egyptian religion. The Aten was believed to be a single deity represented by the sun's disk.
The sun itself in Egypt was called the Aten.