Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness: My Favorite Heretic

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Sculpture of Akhenaten, Aton temple, Karnak

Professor Chaos said...: Heretic! Get me a stake and a cord of firewood!; February 25, 2012 at 9:18 AM
Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...: Now now. Just give him a second to explain his fresh thinkin'.; February 25, 2012 at 9:34 AM
Belle said...: I love Akhenaten. I read about him when I was in my twenties. He was a visionary but his family paid for it. Poor little King Tut and his wife. I think they were a tragic couple.; February 25, 2012 at 10:17 AM
Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...: Imagine what kind of person he must have been to turn his back on generations of religion tradition. But that is the kind of thing you should expect when you elevate a person to the status of a god.; February 25, 2012 at 10:25 AM
M. D. Jackson said...: There was a theory that Akhenaten and Nefertiri were not husband and wife but one and the same person. The theory was that Nevertiri remade herself as a man, Akhenaten, and became Pharoah.

There is also a theory that Akhenaten was an alien. I guess it's easy to come up with a theory.; February 25, 2012 at 11:13 AM
Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...: He/She does have wide hips for a man. Usually Egyptian art isn't so realistic in their depiction of body types.; February 25, 2012 at 11:16 AM