单词 | aten |
释义 | Atenn. One of the names of the sun in ancient Egypt; the name by which the sun or solar disc was worshipped particularly during the reign of Amenophis IV (Akhnaten) in the 14th century b.c. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > sun > [noun] lightOE sunOE Phoebusc1275 the sheenc1400 Titana1413 solc1450 wheel1558 day-sun1570 day star1596 king of day1596 flame-god1598 Aten1877 the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > specific thing as > the sun as sunOE sun god?1592 flame-god1598 sun goddess1839 Aten1877 1841 J. G. Wilkinson Manners & Customs Anc. Egyptians 2nd Ser. I. xiii. 297 The name Atin-re cannot fail to call to mind Attin, or Atys, the Phrygian Sun.] 1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 738/1 Amenophis IV..introduced a new religion, the worship of Aten, the solar disk. 1906 J. H. Breasted Hist. Egypt xviii. 360 Already under Amen~hotep III an old name for the material sun, ‘Aton’, had come into..use, where the name of the sun-god might have been expected... Under the name of Aton, then, Amen-hotep IV introduced the worship of the supreme god. 1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 June 419/2 The period of the Aten heresy..which may be said to cover a little more than half-a-century down to 1346 b.c. 1935 W. Empson Poems 12 Stand, wolf-chased Phoebus..Aton of maggots of reflected girder. Derivatives ˈAtenism n. (also ˈAtonism) worship of the Aten. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of heavenly bodies star worship1572 Sabaism1669 astrolatry1678 uranolatry1706 Sabianism1788 uranotheism1801 Atenism1925 planetolatrya1963 1925 J. W. Jack Date of Exodus i. 20 There is..no connection between the Atenism of that king [sc. Akhnaten] and the religion of Israel. 1939 A. Toynbee Study of Hist. VI. 328 (heading) Atonism. 1961 A. H. Gardiner Egypt of Pharaohs ix. 222 A curious addition states that the Mnevis-bull of Hēliopolis should likewise be buried in the Aten's city, another sign how dependent the new Atenism was upon one of the oldest of Egypt's religious cults. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1877 |
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