This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...with considerable power and grace of expression, and with a grasp of the universal nature of such a divinity which is very noteworthy. Akhenaten has no sympathy whatever with the most firmly rooted religious conception of ancient times--that of the local or national divinity. To him his god is god over all. ' ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...with considerable power and grace of expression, and with a grasp of the universal nature of such a divinity which is very noteworthy. Akhenaten has no sympathy whatever with the most firmly rooted religious conception of ancient times--that of the local or national divinity. To him his god is god over all. ' In the hills from Syria to Kush, and the plain of Egypt, Thou givest to everyone his place, thou framest their lives; To everyone his belongings, reckoning his length of days.' One is forcibly reminded of the words of a greater religious teacher than Akhenaten: ' And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth; and hath determined the times before appointed, Fig. 23.--Servant With Chariot, Tell-el-amarna. and the bounds of their habitation.' The whole hymn has been repeatedly compared with Ps. civ., to which, indeed, it presents very obvious resemblances. A verse or two of Mr. Griffith's translation will help to exhibit these. The king addresses the Aten. 'Thou restest in the western horizon of heaven, And the land is in darkness like the dead. They lie in their houses, their heads are covered, Their breath is shut up, and eye sees not to eye.. Every lion cometh forth from his den, And all the serpents then bite; The night shines with its lights, The land lies in silence; For he who made them is in his horizon. The land brightens, for thou risest in the horizon, Shining as the Aten in the day. The darkness flees, for thou givest thy beams, Both lands are rejoicing every day. Men awake and stand upon their feet, For thou liftest them up; They bathe their limbs, they clothe themselves, They lift their hands in adoration of thy rising, Throughout the land they do their labours. The cattle all rest in...
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