Akhenaten's The Great Hymn To Aten

The Great Hymn to Aten was created by Egyptian king Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt from 1369 BCE to 1353 BCE, and it provided Egypt with an outlook at monotheism which means worshipping one god, Aten, instead of the past which focused more on polytheism which focused on the worship of many different gods. The purpose of the Great Hymn was to praise and worship the sun god Aten for being the creator by creating the world and providing humans with special needs like food and water. Egyptians worshipped Aten because he controlled life by rising in the morning and death by falling in the night time. This affected the Egyptians because when the sun rose in the morning it meant that it was time to work on the land that Aten provided them with.
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The Egyptians also thought that everything started with Aten when he rose and everything ended when Aten would fall.
5. “Who makes seed grow in women, Who creates people from sperm; Who feeds the son in his mother's womb, Who soothes him to still his tears.”: This quote shows that Egyptians believed that Aten was the source of life because Aten provides women with children and feeds the unborn babies. “O living Aten, creator of life! When you have dawned in eastern lightland, You fill every land with your beauty. You are beauteous, great, radiant, High over every land; Your rays embrace the lands,”: This quote shows how happy the Egyptians are about Atne because of the life that Aten gives them. “Nurse in the womb. Giver of breath, To nourish all that he made.”: This quote shows that even when a person is in the women Egyptians believed that Aten already fulfills most of that person’s needs.”When you have dawned they live, When you set they die; You yourself are lifetime, one lives by you. All eyes are on (your) beauty until you set, All labor ceases when you rest in the west;”: This proves that Egyptians saw Aten as the start of everything like the work day and the end of everything when Aten