Akhenaten before and after

Egypt as always -even up to now – was ruled by religion everything made, build , or written has something religious in it , the king rules because he is the son of a god or another every amazing building was related to a religion , huge temples or amazing tombs , everyday life buildings were very humble , the art too most of it depicting gods , or people worshiping them and offering to them , even the painting showing everyday life were meant to show either how good was the king \ dead person in his\her life and thus he deserve to live in the Aaru \ sḫt-jꜣrw ,or just showing how he would live their .

even in Akhenaten era , he was no exception , in a soften way he was praised with his queen but may be as a high priest or even a prophet of Aten , Not as a divine entity born of god like everyone else .

and not long after the death of Ahenaten , Ay became the king of Egypt after the famous 

King Tutankh (amen \Aten) who changed his name, religion and capital to satisfy Amen priests and the crowds mostly because of his grand Vasir Ay advice , after his death \ murder , Ay became the new king .

so everything came back to normal , king rule politically and military , priesthood control temples with a lot of privileges , and getting a lot of gifts from kings , nobles and even ordinary people . 

is that so ?

Not for long that the power of Amen , and other deities as well , became too strong that Thebe became thier own kingdom that the High priest of Amen announced his son Amenhotep a king instead of Ramses XI , but Rmses XI saved his throne , 

in the 21 dynasty they ruled upper Egypt , then they became the real kings of Egypt one of the famous kings who was born of them is the silver king Psusennes I who was a son of the high priest of Amen , who ruled from the North and left upper Egypt to his father and the priesthood of amen

was that overwhelming power that Amen priesthood a reaction caused by the revolution of Akhenaten ?

Or was Akhenaten trying to protect Egypt from their over-growing power ??

what is better for a civilization 

a weak hermit king , with no concern of administration and governing , who stopped caring about the army and Egyptian colonies , or a bunch of fanatics / charlatans priests who enslave people using their mumbo jumbo ?

I believe neither 

but it was the fault of the great kings who ignored them specially the Ramses (s) the 19th dynasty who used to bride them with big gifts of lands , money and even slaves . 

How to enable Coptic in Windows

in easy steps we shall learn How To enable Coptic in windows (read and write )

let’s start

1st download Coptic Unicode fonts 

just download this file and double click it 

and it’ll install Coptic fonts in your windows

Coptic_fonts Coptic Fonts

then install the Coptic Keyboard from this file

coptic Keyboard Coptic Keyboardhttp://egyptianfantasy.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/coptic.zip

Just like above 

Unzip it then run it .

Now you can change your keyboard layout from En to Coptic using and Vice Versa of course

Normal

Shift (Caps)

3rd level with alt

I tried to make it as close as possible to Linux keyboard layout to ease it for people using the Linux keyboard 

I put many old dialect letters , of course most of us would need only the 7 demotic letters 

( ϥ ϣ ϧ ϩ ϫ ϭ ϯ ) and for me some times I use ain Ⲵ and H.ori Ⳉ .

AKHENATEN 2

AKHENATEN 2

By Lawrence W William | July 3, 2019 | Comments0 Comment

Akhenaten and Nefertiti

The Lover

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Like any modern Love birds who takes pictures together anytime , any occasion , trip ,travel or whenever they are together .

even more post it on their social media accounts ,

we have Akhenaten and his beloved Queen Nefertiti and some times his other less-famous queen Kiya ; “Posting ” their scenes to gather all over the New Capital Akenaten on their time social media : temples walls , palaces , wherever he wishes .

unlike every other Egyptian King who prefer formal depiction of his divine self and his blue blood royal family , even though the high society , scribes , priests , ministers , army leaders ,nobles or even officials who prefer to be shown as if they are applying to a political party

he prefers to be depicted as a loving father kissing his daughter , a loving husband with his wife , or even in a sensual scenes 

for example the Queen is about to kiss him

so what ever you think about him 

a crazy man who refused the royal tradition and acted like an ordinary man or even worse , A hippy -if I may say –

offering his God flowers all the time hanging up with wife , artists , poets and philosophers

Or see him like a great philosopher and teacher “Guru “who inspired many after him including the writer of Psalm 104 – which what I ‘ll talk about next time .

To be continued .

By Lawrence W William