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Aton the Sun-Sun
Aten
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Reborn NeelaOwner: Sekhmet
Age: 1 week, 6 days
Born: April 14th, 2026
Adopted: 1 week, 6 days ago
Adopted: April 14th, 2026
Statistics
- Level: 1
- Strength: 10
- Defense: 10
- Speed: 10
- Health: 10
- HP: 10/10
- Intelligence: 18
- Books Read: 18
- Food Eaten: 0
- Job: Unemployed
The term “Aten” refers to the actual, physical disk of the sun. The Egyptians were perfectly capable of distinguishing between the deity associated with a certain physical phenomenon and that phenomenon itself. Thus Ra is a solar god, but can be distinguished from the actual disk of the sun, Nut is a sky goddess, but can be distinguished from the sky, etc.
The Aten was often worn by solar deities, such as Ra, Sekhmet, or Horus, as a symbol of power and divinity. It should be noted that the term "Aten" initially could be applied to any disk, including the surface of a mirror or the moon. “Silver Aten” was one of the titles of Thoth, god of the moon. The Aten was never depicted in anthropomorphic (human) form - rather, it was always shown as a red or yellow disk, often with the cobra goddess Wadjet coiled at the base. On occasion, the Aten had falcon wings.
The Aten is invoked, alongside Ra, in a spell to speed up childbirth, presumably because the passage of the sun’s disk across the sky marks the passage of time; the spell thus, in a sense, seeks to speed up time. In the Book of the Dead, the Aten is called on by the deceased as a protector: "Hail, Aten, thou lord of beams of light, when thou shinest, all faces live." The deceased pharaoh was thought to fly to the sky and unite with the sun disk.
Credits
❖ Story by Sekhmet with information from these sources
❖ Background photo from Hasmik Ghazaryan Olson
❖ Profile by Balloon
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