Aten

British  

/ ˈɑːtən /

noun

1. (in ancient Egypt) the solar disc worshipped as the sole god in the reign of Akhenaten

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Example Sentences

His hymn to Aten is an exercise in majesty, an ode not just to the sun but to the expanses in which our solar system circulates.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Washington Times

Akhenaten replaced him by elevating a sun god called Aten, who was previously only a minor religious figure.

From Scientific American

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.

From New York Times

Moses' motive, Freud hypothesized, was to preserve a sect of the ancient Egyptian religion which rejected polytheism and only worshipped the sun god, Aten.

From Salon