The Hymn to the Aten

Where is the best preserved example of the Hymn to the Aten?

• Tomb of Mahu

• Tomb of Ay

• Tomb of Horemheb

• Tomb of Akhenaten

Who do scholars believe wrote the Hymn to the Aten?

• Akhenaten

• Ay

• Nefertiti

• Tiye

How does the Hymn to the Aten begin?

• It introduces the Aten

• It introduces Akhenaten and Nefertiti

• It describes the Aten rising

• It describes the Aten setting

What changed with the goddess Maat?

• Nothing, she remained a goddess

• She was consumed into the Aten

• She became a sun-disc deity

• Akhenaten embodied Maat as an ethical authority

What happens when the Aten sets?

• Chaotic forces come out of hiding

• Death

• Silence

• Life

What is the rising Aten associated with?

• Life

• Death

• Health

• Silence

What can we say the Aten is?

• Monotheistic

• Cosmotheistic

• Creator

• Universal

In the Hymn, Akhenaten explicitly portrays himself as what?

• The only one who knows the Aten and can be his conduit

• A universal king

• The sole god

• A teacher

One of the impacts of the Aten religion is:

• Akhenaten welcomed all foreign peoples into Amarna as they all worshipped the same god.

• People could pray directly to the Aten

• Prayer occurred only at night

• Architecture focused on and accomodated the sun