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Originally posted by the lioness,:
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Man in the Egyptian Religion and Culture of the New Kingdom: From “Theological Working” to “Speculative Theology”
January 2023
DOI:10.2991/978-2-494069-43-5_6

Vladimir V. Zhdanov(B)People’s Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)

The paper is devoted to the issue of the religious worldview in Egypt of the era of the New Kingdom (XVI-XI centuries BC), when the doctrine of at transcendent God appears for the first time in the Theban religious thought, which is closely connected with the emergence of new ideas about man and his nature in this historical period. Many details of this new theological model already largely correspond to the cultural and spiritual criteria of the epoch of “axial time”, the onset of which is traditionally dated to a much later period, namely the X century BC

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Article connects the transcendent innovation to the
axial age, and a growing sense of an Individual's
direct personal connection with the transcendent
divine being, not the usual animal/nature manifestation
gods, temple rituals or rites by an exclusive monopoly
of priests, or state officials. Ironically it came,
the article says after the rejected religious regime
of Akhnaten.

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'It is important to note that this connection no
longer takes place in a temple or through a religious
ceremony (for example, offering gifts or public prayer),
but through a spiritual, deeply inner experience of a
person’s closeness with the deity. Under the conditions
of the official ban, the believer does not address Amun
out loud, not publicly, but “in his heart”, that is,
mentally. Thus, during the period of persecution, the
religious experience of basic Egyptian piety for the
first time acquires a pronounced existential-personal
orientation. This new element of religious experience,
previously unknown in Egyptian spiritual culture,
appears at this difficult time for the country precisely
in the theology of Amun, among its followers. An even
greater incentive for its spread among the broadest masses
of people was the fact that Akhenaten and his supporters,
in addition to the persecution of the cult of Amun, also,
in fact, completely ignored the cult of Osiris and the
traditional ideas associated with it about the nature
of man and his afterlife. That is why the period of
Akhenaten’s harsh reforms became, paradoxically, the
era of the real revival of the Amun religion, its
rooting in the widest layers of popular piety."
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^^if this is correct it puts a damper on an assortment of hotep
"enthusiasts' who insist that Akhnaten's is the "true" AE religion.
It also puts a damper on the "enthusiasms" of various Aryan boosters
who posit such innovations or changes as exclusively "Eurasian" in
nature, like the Greeks who allegedly "invented" such things,
when in fact on several counts the Egyptians been there, done that.
As such the article brings a more balanced perspective, and an
interesting twist on changes in AE religion.



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