akhenaten

You arise beautiful from the horizon on heaven, living disk, origin of light. You are arisen from the horizon, you fill every land with your beauty. You are fine, great, radiant, lofty over and above every land. Your rays bind the lands to the limit of all you have made, you are the sun, you...

-Let's say a personality change means he doesn't attempt to reform Egyptian religion -Or his elder brother Thutmose doesn't die and becomes Pharaoh. -How much of subsequent history changes? -Did this rupture with Egyptian religion affect the pharaoh's standing in the long run in the eyes of...

Your challenge is to have Atenism experience a revival at some point after its decline. It doesn't necessarily have to become the state religion again, it just has to have a significant following.

One of the most controversial and interesting figures of Egypt is Akhenaten. During Akhenaten's reign, which occurred roughly 1353 BC and 1334 BC (scholars are not completely clear on the date), he, alongside his wife Nefertiti, brought his fist down on the polytheism of Egypt to establish the...

Now Atenism is the world's oldest Monotheistic religion, and besides Tengriism and Hinduism is the largest denomination in the world. It was the first mass appealing religions to ever come about, and probably the most important one to form in the west. It was likely the source of other such...