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I. THE recent discovery of Tut'enkhamūn's tomb has naturally aroused a great deal of interest in. the attempt made by that king's father-in-law, Ōkhnatōn, to establish a monotheistic form of sun-worship as the State religion of Egypt, and indeed of the whole Egyptian empire. Properly to appreciate this very striking phase of Egyptian religious thought, it is necessary to have some knowledge of the old “orthodox” sun-cult, the State religion of Egypt, since at any rate the sixth, and possibly the third dynasty—a cult which can be traced back to the very dawn of Egyptian history.
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BLACKMAN, A. The Sun-Cult in Ancient Egypt. Nature 111, 499–502 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111499a0
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