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Akhenaten the Alien Pharaoh. Aten disk Credits: wikipedia.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Akhenaten the Heretic\u00a0Pharaoh<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Akhenaten<\/strong><\/em> was known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV. \u00a0He\u00a0was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt who ruled for 17 years and was the father of \u00a0Tutankhamun.\u00a0He is especially noted for abandoning traditional Egyptian polytheism and introducing worship centered on the\u00a0Aten.<\/p>\n

The Aten, the sun-disk, is first referred to as a deity in The Story of Sinuhe from the 12th dynasty, in which the deceased king is described as rising as a god to the heavens and uniting with the sun-disk, the divine body merging with its maker. By analogy, the term \u201csilver Aten\u201d was sometimes used to refer to the moon. The solar Aten was extensively\u00a0worshiped\u00a0as a god in the reign of Amenhotep III when it was depicted as a falcon-headed man much like Ra.\u00a0Akhenaten claimed, \u201cThere is only one god, my father. I can approach him by day, by night.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0This was a very, very strange statement for the time. Akhenaten could have been the first monotheist in all of history, a precursor to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Muhammad as prophets who worshiped one god.<\/p>\n

In the reign of Amenhotep III\u2019s successor, Amenhotep IV or Akhenaten, the Aten became the central god of Egyptian state religion, Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhenaten to reflect his close link with the new supreme deity.<\/p>\n

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Statue of Pharaoh Akhenaten<\/strong><\/em>, also known as Amenhotep IV by Richard Nowitz National Geographic. Akhenaten the Alien Pharaoh?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Akhenaten<\/strong><\/em> was one of the most controversial Pharaohs to rule Egypt. According to Egyptian Mythology he\u00a0descended from the\u00a0gods who arrived on Earth\u00a0at the time of Tep Zepi and\u00a0until\u00a0today, people still believe that this Pharaoh did, in fact, come from the Stars.<\/p>\n

In 1352 BC, Akhenaten ascended\u00a0to the throne as the tenth\u00a0pharaoh of the 18th dynasty.\u00a0Almost immediately, he\u00a0instituted a series of radical\u00a0religious changes, including a\u00a0ban on references to multiple\u00a0gods.\u00a0He abandoned traditional Egyptian polytheism and introduced the worship of the Aten.<\/p>\n

An early inscription likens him to the sun as compared to the stars.\u00a0Akhenaten, upon becoming Pharaoh\u00a0ordered\u00a0all the iconography\u00a0of previous gods to be removed.\u00a0He only allowed one emblem,\u00a0which was a sun emblem,\u00a0literally a sun disk with curious\u00a0arms or rays pointing down.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0writings by Akhenaten and\u00a0poems that were\u00a0written about him later on, he\u00a0was visited by\u00a0beings that descended from the sky, who told Akhenaten what he needed to do, and perhaps this is why he removed all other symbols of other gods from\u00a0Egypt\u00a0and implemented most of the changes he went on to do.<\/p>\n

Akhenaten<\/em><\/strong> claimed to be a\u00a0direct\u00a0descendant\u00a0of Aten\u00a0and like any\u00a0other pharaoh Akhenaten regarded himself\u00a0to be divine, he was a God, but not only did he believe\u00a0himself to be a god, the\u00a0whole nation saw him as a god and worshiped him like one. During his time as\u00a0Pharaoh\u00a0Akhenaten made numerous changes but he also\u00a0ordered the construction\u00a0of a new capital city which he called Amarna and\u00a0he dedicated it to the sun.\u00a0Akhenaten spent the next\u00a0ten years there and in that\u00a0time he instituted changes in\u00a0art and culture and on of the most notable changes were\u00a0how he would\u00a0be publicly depicted, and this was important because in Egyptian\u00a0iconography, Pharaohs\u00a0are depicted as these\u00a0triangular shaped beings,\u00a0strong shoulders\u00a0and these very skinny waists, so basically they were depicted as being strong, like\u00a0heroes, this would reflect power and it was very\u00a0important\u00a0but\u00a0Akhenaten\u00a0would go on and shows himself perhaps as he really is,\u00a0a\u00a0strange\u00a0look,\u00a0unlike\u00a0other Pharaohs.<\/p>\n

Strange body<\/h3>\n

The list of peculiarities is lengthy: an elongated skull, long neck, sunken eyes, thick thighs, long fingers, backward-turned knee joints, a prominent belly that suggests pregnancy and female-like breasts.\u00a0<\/span>The first thing that is strange is his elongated skull, and in all of the statues and depictions of him, we see this elongated skull. In general his body was sort of like a feminine and masculine mixture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The change in royal\u00a0iconography of Akhenaten depicted\u00a0him with a misshapen head, with a\u00a0potbelly a sunken chest, elongated arms, larger thighs and this was totally\u00a0opposed to the idealized\u00a0iconography of traditional\u00a0Egyptian artists that showed these big and strong looking Pharaohs.<\/p>\n

Why would he make changes in the royal iconography to show him as this \u201cweak\u201d Pharaoh? His wife\u00a0Nefertiti was also\u00a0depicted\u00a0having an elongated skull, did they have some kind of genetic anomaly that caused their heads\u2013 and body\u2019s in general to be misshaped and\u00a0disproportional? Or is there something more to this strange Pharaoh and his origins? Is it possible that he was actually a hybrid human being? with genes and DNA from Extraterrestrials? What is for sure is that he was not like other Pharaohs and human beings in general, when you look at his statues and depictions you\u00a0immediately\u00a0point out these strange, unlike humanoid\u00a0characteristics. He is simply put a strange \u201chuman\u201d.<\/p>\n

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This female head has an elongated skull, and is probably a child of Amenhotep IV\/Akhenaten (1351-1334 BCE). The eye is hollow for inlaying. The piece is broken across the neck, and is a forgery executed in the 18th Dynasty, Amarna Period style. Courtesy and Credit of wikipedia.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dr. Braverman (Professor of dermatology at Yale University School of Medicine)\u00a0attributes the king\u2019s female form to familial gynecomastia, brought on by an inherited syndrome called aromatase excess syndrome. This diagnosis is the first to be associated with Akhenaten.\u00a0As for the shape of Akhenaten\u2019s head, Dr. Braverman attributes this to a condition called craniosynostosis, in which sutures, the fibrous joints of the head, fuse at an early age, and interfere with the process of skull formation. The specific condition, called a sagittal suture, is dominantly inherited. Dr. Braverman says he observed this abnormality in the king\u2019s daughters as well as in Queen Hatshepsut, daughter of Tuthmosis I, founder of Akhenaten\u2019s paternal line, and in King Tut, who ended this line.<\/p>\n

After Akhenaten<\/strong><\/h3>\n

After his reign the city of \u00a0<\/span>Amarna was\u00a0<\/span>abandoned and temples to the\u00a0<\/span>sun were destroyed, i<\/span>mages of <\/span>Akhenaten were\u00a0<\/span>deliberately defaced and\u00a0<\/span>Ancient Egypt rapidly \u201crecovered\u201d and returned\u00a0to its old ways,\u00a0worshiping<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>many gods.Today, many \u00a0<\/span>Egyptologists believe that\u00a0<\/span>Akhenaten was actually forced to\u00a0<\/span>abdicate and flee from Egypt\u00a0<\/span>with his loyal\u00a0<\/span>followers.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1907, the actual body of\u00a0Akhenaten was discovered in\u00a0Egypt\u2019s Valley of the Kings by British\u00a0archaeologist\u00a0named\u00a0Edward Ayrton.\u00a0After unearthing Akhenaten\u2019s\u00a0mummified remains,\u00a0Edward Ayrton was able\u00a0to confirm that the\u00a0ancient pharaoh\u2019s skull was\u00a0misshapen and elongated.\u00a0Akhenaten was succeeded by his\u00a0son, Tutankhamun, who became the\u00a0most renowned pharaoh of all time.\u00a0When his tomb was discovered\u00a0in 1922 by Howard Carter,\u00a0Tutankhamun\u00a0was also found\u00a0to have an elongated skull.\u00a0In February 2010, the results of DNA tests confirmed that he was the son of Akhenaten.<\/p>\n

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This stone block portrays Akhenaten as a sphinx, and was originally found in the city of Amarna\/Akhetaten. This object is now located in the Kestner Museum of Hanover, Germany. Source: http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/menesje\/2212492438<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

written by Ivan P.- Ancient-Code.com<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Akhenaten the Alien Pharaoh. Aten disk Credits: wikipedia.org Akhenaten the Heretic Pharaoh <\/p>\n

Akhenaten was known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV. He was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt who ruled for 17 years and was the father of Tutankhamun. He is especially noted for abandoning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3924218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-code","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3924218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}