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Aten
/ ˈɑːtən /
noun
- (in ancient Egypt) the solar disc worshipped as the sole god in the reign of Akhenaten
Example Sentences
David M. Aten, the IRS’s human capital officer, also defended the old program’s decision-making, saying employees who didn’t meet “basic elements” of the suggestion process weren’t going to be heard through that process.
Akhenaten replaced him by elevating a sun god called Aten, who was previously only a minor religious figure.
The 18th-dynasty pharaoh rejected Amun, Osiris and Egypt’s traditional gods in favor of a single disembodied creator-essence, Aten, or the sun disk.
Moses' motive, Freud hypothesized, was to preserve a sect of the ancient Egyptian religion which rejected polytheism and only worshipped the sun god, Aten.
His reputation broadened overnight in 2013, when he installed his “Aten Reign” at the Guggenheim Museum, filling Frank Lloyd Wright’s chaste white spiral with concentric rings of glowy color.
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