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II. IT has often been maintained that the Aton-cult instituted by Ōkhnatōn (Amenōphis IV.) displays non-Egyptian features and is in a large measure the product of foreign influences. I hope, however, clearly to show here that in the main it is the outcome of certain tendencies of the old solar religion discussed in the previous article—tendencies which had begun to manifest themselves so far back as the Old Kingdom, which came increasingly into evidence during the Middle Kingdom and the eighteenth dynasty, and finally found in the teaching of King Ōkhnatōn a somewhat particularised expression.
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BLACKMAN, A. The Sun-Cult in Ancient Egypt. Nature 111, 536–540 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111536a0
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