Posted on 05/02/2008 10:57:44 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan
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“And Akhenaten’s head was misshapen because of a condition in which skull bones fuse at an early age.”
You mean, that’s not a HAT?
Baby’s got back!
Hasn’t anyone seen Earth Final Conflict? This whole thing is explained in that show several times. They were all aliens.
That's Nefertiti's story and she's sticking to it!
Notice all his stewards around him have similar physiques. I think it is just the artistic style of the stonemason.
They always refer to him as a Monotheist. In reality, he probably practised monolatrism or henotheism, i.e. the worship of one god alone while still acknowledging the exitance of others.
I was an art history student. I thought images of people all looked that way because artists’ representations became so stylized that that they followed a strict formula in representing humans. I read somewhere that the style was forced on Egyptian artists by the priestly class who dictated positively EVERYTHING in the culture. Can someone clarify that. My memory is vague.
If you hadn’t posted that pic I would have posted one like it. He’s my favorite honky bump.
He probably heard, as a child, how special he was, and in adulthood he believed it to the point where he encouraged caricatures that exaggerated his distinctive features, and even made them the standard. (Thank goodness the sculptors were occasionally permitted to do more realistic depictions.)
What always intrigued me about the art of his time, was the absence of depictions of the male heir. You don’t see a boy among his daughters by the great royal wife; you don’t see a boy heir by any other wife; you don’t see early depictions of Akhenaton with his father Amenhotep III, or any other sons with A3, to my knowledge.
As for the misshapen skull, somebody must have started it, some powerful figure that the others emulated. Probably the same with the Mayans and their crossed eyes that they thought so becoming.
I was just about to post the same thing. Thanks!
Their were standards for ‘high’ heiroglyphs that were carved on temples and monuments and religious texts. The heratic form was less so since it was used in everyday communication.
LOL, I was thinking the same thing. All we know is that she mothered 6 daughters, not that he fathered them.
“They always refer to him as a Monotheist. In reality, he probably practised monolatrism or henotheism, i.e. the worship of one god alone while still acknowledging the existance of others.”
Or, the worship of Pharaoh and his family as the supreme deities of Egypt (but who were associated with all the other Egyptian deities).
Be nice someday to find another tomb with some more info in it. . .
Mama’s baby, Daddy’s maybe.
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