AMARNA PAPERS
A series of essays and/or correspondence seeking to know, in the sense of 'gnosis', what motivated Akhenaten.
Because this quest is nigh impossible, a multidisciplinary approach has been taken with this guiding note from
Ioan Culianu from his book,
"Eros and Magic in the Renaissance," pages 11-12:
The crowning wish of the historian of ideas is not... to define the ideological content of a given period, which are fundamentally recursive in nature, but to glimpse its hermeneutic filter, its "selective will", which is, at the same time a will to distort.
And again, on the same page:
A cultural era is not defined by the
content of the ideas it conveys but by its interpretive filter.
New!!! Academic papers (posted January 2006)
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Political Struggle and the Religion of
Light. Akhenaten’s
Contendings with the Priests of Amun-Ra Produces a Religion of Pure Reason |
Coming of Age in Ancient Egypt Explores
the theory that boys and girls, upon reaching puberty, left home, entered a
state of liminality and faced a life-and-death struggle before being
reintegrated into society |
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Non-academic
essays, conversations, speculation
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Birth
of Israel posted Feb. 17, 2003 |
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Amarna Sexuality: Deep Throat Speculation posted on October 8, 2003 |
Akhenaten, Birthing and the Sun posted
on October 8, 2003 |
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Sexual Psychology of the Amarna Age Posted on March 2, 2007 |
Two more discussions |
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