Ok ok, sorry it was really late! One thing I found so interesting about it was that I had never heard of anything like that happening in Egyptian history before. Actually, it seems pretty rare on the whole. You have thousands of years of secular and religious tradition, and then all of a sudden it’s all rearranged into a completely foreign system. Imagine that happening today. I mean many modern countries have political safeguards to prevent that, but imagine if say the British prime minister announced that all of his people were now only to worship Robin Hood, the UK was withdrawing from the United Nations, and he was building a new capital near stone henge. That’d likely make it to a few news stations, wouldn’t it? It must have been about as crazy for the Egyptian people, and everyone else around. Perhaps even more so, because the Pharaoh was concidered to be a god himself, and that whatever he did was the will of Ra. And yes, monotheism was definitely a rarity at the time as well. It must have been a very strange time for someone living in Egypt, expecialy if they were living in one of the major political and religious cities like Thebes or Memphis.
One thing I found so interesting about it was that I had never heard of anything like that happening in Egyptian history before. Actually, it seems pretty rare on the whole. You have thousands of years of secular and religious tradition, and then all of a sudden it’s all rearranged into a completely foreign system. Imagine that happening today. I mean many modern countries have political safeguards to prevent that, but imagine if say the British prime minister announced that all of his people were now only to worship Robin Hood, the UK was withdrawing from the United Nations, and he was building a new capital near stone henge. That’d likely make it to a few news stations, wouldn’t it? It must have been about as crazy for the Egyptian people, and everyone else around. Perhaps even more so, because the Pharaoh was concidered to be a god himself, and that whatever he did was the will of Ra. And yes, monotheism was definitely a rarity at the time as well. It must have been a very strange time for someone living in Egypt, expecialy if they were living in one of the major political and religious cities like Thebes or Memphis.