Text written during the New Kingdom's 18th Dynasty frequently use the term to mean "throne" or "place" of the sun god. The word Aten was written using the...
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www.touregypt.net/godsofegypt/aten.htm
www.touregypt.net/godsofegypt/aten.htm
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During the Amarna period, this synthesis was seen as the invisible source of energy of the sun god, of which the visible manifestation was the Aten,
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aten
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aten
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Aten was a being who represented the god or spirit of the sun, and the actual solar disk. He was depicted as a disk with rays reaching to the earth. At the end of the rays were human hands Aten's origins are unclear and he may have been a provincial Sun-god worshipped in one of the small villages near Heliopolis.
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www.egyptianmyths.net/aten.htm
www.egyptianmyths.net/aten.htm
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Tutankhamen, by E.A.W. Budge, at sacred-texts.com many centuries before Aten was regarded as a special form of the great solar god at all. One of the oldest forms of the Sun-god worshipped in Egypt was HER (Horus), who in the earliest times seems to have represented the "height" or "face" of heaven by day.
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www.sacred-texts.com/egy/tut/tut07.htm
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Feb 12, 1999 Originally a manifestation of the sun god, Aten (Aton) became the only true sun god during the reign of pharaoh Amenhotep IV (1367 - 1350...
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www.pantheon.org/articles/a/aten.html
www.pantheon.org/articles/a/aten.html
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Mythology: The god of the sun, Aten was also called the creator of man. As the sun-god, Aten was born again each day. Like the sun, Aten nurtured the Earth...
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ablemedia.com/ctcweb/consortium/ancientegyptiangodsaten...
ablemedia.com/ctcweb/consortium/ancientegyptiangodsaten.html
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Thus, Ra was not only the sun god, he was also the universe, having created himself from himself. Ra was invoked as Aten or the Great Disc that illuminated the world of the living and the dead.
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ancienthistory.about.com/cs/egypt/a/locegyptmonothe.htm
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Senet - a board game from ancient Egyp Board games were very common in ancient Egypt and people from all levels of society played them. Many game boards from ancient Egypt have been found by archaeologists. However, the rules explaining how to play these games have not survived. By studying game boards and other evidence,
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www.ancientegypt.co.uk/life/activity/main.html
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Freud, history and the return of the repressed 16 August 2006 Image of worshippers of the sun-god Aten...
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www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2006/11557411546.html
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