This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...of Egypt a vacillating youth, under the tutelage of an imperious devotee, who was destined afterwards to experience the truth of the aphorism that no religions are so hard to reconcile as those which outwardly present the greatest similarity to each other.2 While this spiritual revolution was impending, Amenophis IV. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...of Egypt a vacillating youth, under the tutelage of an imperious devotee, who was destined afterwards to experience the truth of the aphorism that no religions are so hard to reconcile as those which outwardly present the greatest similarity to each other.2 While this spiritual revolution was impending, Amenophis IV. engaged in battle with the northern Asiatics of Damascus, and displayed considerable vigour in his repression of them. A curious feature of this contest was, that the seven daughters,3 all young women, of the king of Egypt, followed him to the war, and inheriting some of the spirit of queen Taia, their grandmother, rode chariot by chariot with their father in the hottest of the fight, and trampled the fallen foe beneath their horses' feet with a revengeful ardour worthy of a more generous cause. Pleased with the prowess of his children, Amenophis united in marriage his noblest lords with them; parcelling out the Lower Kingdom into something like satrapies among his sons-in-law. In all affairs, save those of royal warfare, the queenmother was allowed to assume the pre-eminence; and suddenly the imperative declaration of the change in the national faith was announced to the people at large. The king, whose divine name was " glory," or "honour to Amen-Ra," of which supreme deity he was, by the hierarchical laws of the Empire an incarnation, disavowed his own divinity, and took instead the title of Khu-en-aten, or " glory of the solar disk." Thus by one and the same act severing himself from the "divinity that doth hedge a king," and openly avowing himself the patron of an alien worship. Anticipating an outbreak from this violent innovation, Taia wisely withdrew the Court to a locality still further off in Up...
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