About “Great Hymn to the Aten”
The Great Hymn to the Aten is the longest of several hymn-poems written to the sun-disk deity Aten. It was composed in the middle of the 14th century BC and is sometimes attributed to Pharaoh Akhenaten or his courtiers. Akhenaten introduced Atenism, a religious reform that replaced traditional Egyptian beliefs. The hymn shows similarities to the biblical Psalm 104. It is an ancient Egyptian literary work. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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