“Great Hymn to the Aten”

Essential Quotes

“Beautifully you appear from the horizon of heaven, O living Aten who initiates life.”

“For you are risen from the eastern horizon and have filled every land with your beauty; / For you are fair, great, dazzling and high over every land, / And your rays enclose the lands to the limit of all you have made; / For you are Re, having reached their limit and subdued them your beloved son.”

“How manifold it is, what you have made, although mysterious in the face (of humanity), / O sole god, without another beside him!”

“You make millions of developments from yourself, (you who are) a oneness: cities, towns, fields, the path of the river.”

“You are in my heart, and there is none who knows you except your son, NEFERKHEPRURE-WAENRE, / For you make him aware of your plans and your strength. / The land develops through your action, just as you made them (= people): / When you have risen they live, (but) when you set they die. You are lifetime in your (very) limbs, and one lives by means of you.”