1. You may well be right, the Egyptians may have invented it, but
invented religions are, methinks, rare.
2. Some propose to read it Aton ––– no sure vowels in this
presumed language.
3. 2000 BCE is not so long ago.
4. Is not Horus our חרס XERES, otherwise known as כורש KORE$?
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Nov 24, 2012, at 9:36 PM, Jack Kilmon wrote:
From: Isaac Fried
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2012 6:55 PM
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Cc: mailto:[email protected]
Subject: [b-hebrew] Akhnaton
Said to be the worshiper of Aten or Aton, which seems to me to be
but the
Hebrew אדון ADON, and which the Greeks feminized into Pallas-
Athena,
namely בעלת אדינה BAALAT-ADINAH.
It appears to me that ADON is made up of עד AD and ON, where
AD, or עז AZ, may refer to any "strong" thing, and where ON is
הנו HIYNO.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Nov 23, 2012, at 9:57 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Akhnaton
I don’t think a relationship can be supported just on the basis of
a very tenuous homophonic Aten/Iten from early Middle Egyptian
(2055-1650 BCE) with its earliest mention in Papyrus Berlin 10499
from the 20th century BCE LONG before the emergence of Canaanite
Semitic or Greek. The mention of Aten in this Papyrus written 1962
BCE is certainly not the “birth” of Aten in Egyptian culture.
Even if they were from the same time period, I would not be
convinced that ADON and 3ten were homophones.
Jack
Jack Kilmon
Houston, TX
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