The best laid plans...
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Akhenaten and Nefertiti, original rebels??
I agree that we can never be knowledgeable regarding the personal motivations Akhenaten. However, the more I think on the matter, I do think it is permissible to speculate; by taking what scant knowledge we have of the time and applying it to decent theories.Avatar wrote:Agreed. Much history, especially gong so far back, is. We have no way of uncovering the motivations of people who did things.
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Akhenaten’s and the Pharaoh’s power seemed to be hindered a great deal by the High Priests; indeed, much of what I read regarding this period in history suggests that the High Priests had more power than the Pharaoh. So in that kind of power struggle, I do not find it coincidence that Akhenaten initiated a technique to deprive the Priests of power and augment his own grip. He was bound to have advisors and allies at the time; he could not have accomplished in his establishment of this belief without the aid of friends. So, like Av, I deduce that Akhenaten did indeed conduct his actions in the method he did because he wished to diminish the High Priests power while illuminating his own.