Akhenaten was the most controversial Pharao ever to rule the Ancient Egyptian Empire and is considered as one of the potential founders of monotheistic religion on Earth. He worshiped the Aten—the Sun Disk and said he was directly related to God. “There is only ONE God, my father, and I can approach him be it by day, or by night.”

Amenhotep IV, better known as Akhenaten, ruled Ancient Egypt between 1351–1334 BC.

Husband of Nefertiti and father of Tutankhamun, his reign was marked by a deep religious revolution that made the mighty empire tremble, like nothing before. He is remembered as a heretical and revolutionary ruler who had the ‘guts’ to implement change in an unforgiving ancient empire, by introducing what is believed to be the first monotheistic religion on Earth.

Together, Akhenaten and Nefertiti tried replacing the vast pantheon of ancient Egyptian gods by a monotheistic cult dedicated to the worship of Aten, god of the Sun and creator of the Universe.

Once he became the ruler of ancient Egpyt, Akhenaten ordered all iconography of ancient Egyptian gods to be removed. This angered many.

To implement their drastic changes, Akhenaten and Nefertiti ordered the destruction of all shrines dedicated to other deities and even moved the capital of the empire, historically located in the city of Thebes, to Amarna, where in a few years they built a sumptuous settlement and luxurious palaces of worship the new God—The Sun disc, or Aten.

The Aten, aka Aton, is the disk of the sun in ancient Egyptian mythology, and originally an aspect of the god Ra.

The accumulation of power made the very foundations of the Ancient Egyptian falter. The army which was dedicated to persecuting religious revolts was not in a position to dispel Hittite attacks; and the ancient priests, resentful after their displacement, were making sinister plans to end the new reign imposed by the controversial Pharaoh.

After a series of catastrophes, and in the middle of a cruel epidemic, Akhenaten died, and his son Tutankhamun took possession of the throne. The new Pharaoh undid his father’s reforms and led the empire to a new period of splendor.

His reign was marked by mystery.

Based on the remains archaeologists discovered from the reign of Akhenaten, it is believed that his reign lasted around 17 years.

But before his fall he made sure the world would forever remember him.

Once he took control of the empire, Akhenaten ordained new priests and forced priests of Amun into the service of his new monotheistic religion, while proclaimed himself and his wife living gods. Akhenaten claimed he was a direct descendant from the Aten and made the entire nation worship him as a God.

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He elevated Nefertiti to a divine status, and she married Akhenaten when she only had around twelve years.

Akhenaten made many controversial claims after abandoning ancient Egyptian polytheism and introducing his religion centered on the Aten.

The heretic Pharaoh claimed how “There is only ONE God, my father, and I can approach him be it by day, or by night.”

And while many argue that this ancient Pharaoh may have been more than just a heretic Pharaoh—even a hybrid alien—researchers claim that Akhenaten’s strange appearance was the result of an illness called Marfan’s Syndrome while others indicate that he suffered from elephantiasis and Froelich’s Syndrome.

It is noteworthy to mention how there are some scholars who have made drastic connections between Akhenaten and Moses.

Sigmund Freud proposed a set of interesting theories. Freud argues how Moses was in fact an Atheist Priest who was exiled from ancient Egypt together with his followers after Akhenaten’s reign had ended.

While Akhenaten’s monotheistic reign came to an abrupt end, it is believed that his ideas continued living after him.

Many authors point to striking similarities between Moses and Akhenaten. According to history, Akhenaten had chosen the Heliopolitan solar form of the Egyptian temple and implemented it as the place where the Aten was to be worshiped.

Curiously, Moses, on the other hand, was the first to implement a temple into Israelite worship, after creating the Tabernacle at Sinai.

What do the petroglyphs of the American Southwest represent? There are more than 10,000 ancient petroglyphs scattered across the region which have baffled experts since their discovery. Some of these petroglyphs depict strange faces with almond-shaped eyes, abstract symbols, spiral’s, zig-zag’s, beings with antennas, horns and feathers, birds, and beings with massive round eyes, among countless other shapes.

If we take a trip from southeastern Arizona, northeastern Sonora through southern New Mexico and northern Chihuahua into western Texas we will find hundreds of ancient petroglyphs the ancient’s left us in stunning galleries of mysterious and ‘controversial’ images mostly chiseled on stone surfaces.

There are so many petroglyphs across the region that its hard to even start of describing them.

Intricate images were discovered etched on the rocks of canyons and mountains ranging from deep in Mexico to the northern Rockies. Most of these intricate symbols and markings are concentrated in the American Southwest—Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Texas, and California—but the truth is that they have been found from coast to coast in the United States.

In fact, archeologists believe there are thousands of rock art sites across the Southwest—and more than 7,000 symbols have been cataloged in Utah alone.

Deciphering the exact meaning of the thousands of petroglyphs carved across the American continent has been a difficulty for experts who are stuck between two worlds, when it comes to understanding what the ancients were trying to tell us, written in stone. While some petroglyphs point out the obioucs—ancients hunting, and animals from the region—other petroglyphs have caused confusion among experts. There are certain petroglyphs carved across the American Southwest that give rise to countless theories—and depictions of aliens and distant galaxies is one of the most controversial explanations.

Most of the petroglyphs we will look at in this article are connected to the ancient Puebloan cultures and the ancient people known as the Anasazi, an ancient civilization which has been credited with constructing supermassive cliff-dwellings in the southwestern landscape.

Throughout the years, experts have determined that the intricate symbols scattered across the area are clan or tribal symbols, believed to have been associated with territory.

Others stone etchings indicate the presence of shelter and water, but the more eccentric symbols, like the countless zigzags, spirals, dots, circles, and others have created confusion among experts. Curiously, archaeoastronomers believed how a number of the rock carvings across the region are celestial in nature, and some of them indicate solstices and planetary movements, and there are even archaeological sites that have been found to be astronomical observatories similar in function to one of Europe’s most noteworthy, Stonehenge.

One of the most peculiar rock etchings—and a personal favorite—is without a doubt the “Canyon Watchmen” chiseled on a rock at the Organ Mountains in New Mexico.

The curious image depicts what seems to be a humanoid figure with large eyes and two antennas protruding from the top of its head.

Some experts want to believe that this was the depiction of an ancient Shaman, but there are many who remained convinced that what we are seeing here, is in fact a depiction of the “Sky God” beings who came to Earth thousands of years ago and interacted with ancient cultures across the planet.

Another interesting set of ancient petroglyphs we have to take a look at, originates from an ancient culture of indigenous people from Southern New Mexico and Arizona, Northern Sonora and Chihuahua, and Western Texas, a region popularly referred to as OasisAmerica: the Mogollon Culture—an ancient people whose origins remains a mystery for scholars. Scholars are having a hard time understanding where this ancient culture originated from. One theory suggests how the ancient Mogollon emerged from a preceding Desert Archaic tradition that links Mogollon ancestry with the first prehistoric human occupations of the area—sometime around 9000 BCE.  But, like many other things in our history, these are just speculations.

It is noteworthy to mention that archaeologists believe that the Western Pueblo villages of the Hopi and Zuni people are related to the Mogollon.

Across the 100,000 square-mile area that encompasses the Mimbres branch of the Mogollon to the west all the way to the Jornada branch to the east, archaeologists have found COUNTLESS symbols etched in stone—standing the test of time—depicting strange faces with almond-shaped eyes, abstract symbols, spiral’s, zig-zag’s, beings with antennas, horns, and feathers, birds and beings with massive round eyes, among countless other shapes. We can find 3000 Jornada Mogollon rock paintings alone depicting strange creatures which experts have failed to understand.

More intricate symbols can be found at Grapevine Canyon which feature more than 700 strange petroglyphs which are believed to date back between 1100 and 1900 A.D. Just as other petroglyphs, those at Grapevine Canyon remain a mystery since both the meaning of the glyphs and their creators remain an enigma, although the area was inhabited by the ancient Mojave.

Although such evidence of Alien visitation is far from conclusive, and merely circumstantial at this point—kind’a like religion?—the presumption is sufficient to clarify an obligation to take it into consideration, right?

Perhaps the most controversial question that still needs answering is, “Who were these strange beings that arrived from the sky riding “huge thundering birds,” as described by ancient cultures not only in the American continent but around the planet.

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