MS: Sun and horizon were cosmic principles in the city of the heretical Pharaoh Akhenaten in New Kingdom Egypt. Akhetaten (“the horizon of the sun’s disk”) was a planned and sacred landscape designed to be the human built component to a divine cosmos centered upon the sun and its bountiful productive powers. The horizon to the city was a limestone escarpment that circled the river plain on which the city was built, offering an edge to the sacred space. Embracing the great alimentary flow of the river Nile, Akhetaten’s ecology was centered upon the household of Pharaoh who bestowed gifts upon retainers and presided over the offering of vast quantities of food to the god Aten. But this was considered heresy; the city was abandoned after only a few decades and the death of Pharaoh, and the desert returned.
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This is a drawing of a tomb painting showing the great temple of the Aten.
It was 900 feet long, filled and surrounded by hundreds of offering tables - piled high with food for the Aten, disk of the sun.
The faces of Akhenaten and Nefertiti have been erased by priests in their effort to remove Akhenaten and his social experiment from history
