Akhenaten's brief reign, of hardly more than sixteen years, happened at a difficult time in Egyptian history; a period in which the decline of the previously unparalleled Egyptian empire seemed inevitable. ... Effectively discarding the beliefs of an Empire, Akhenaten denounced the existing polytheist religious hierarchy and replaced it with the monotheist worship of a sole God; the Aten, or sun disk. ... Akhenaten, possibly in a move to lessen the political power of the Priests, introduced the worship of one god, the Aten, or Sun disk. ... The movement of the capital was so significant...

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China has a long history of 5,000 years. So it has inherited a lot from the long history, except on religions. ... The main character Wukong,Sun, a monkey born in the rock, first learnt his magician with a god of Taoism. ... And there was not a single religious war in the history. ... Such believe made good effects in the history. ...

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The king was considered chosen by the sun god himself to rule over the people. ... Under the guidance of the Aton, or sun-disk, Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhenaton and ruled with an emphasis that he was a divine king. ... They worshipped the major divinities such as the Sun-God and the Water God but also local Gods and home Gods as well. ... The divine origin of the written law is emphasized by a belief in which the king is depicted receiving the code from the sun god, Shamash, the god of justice. ... Earlier in history, man did not understand many things around him as well as he was no...

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Hinduism is a major world religion, not merely by virtue of its many followers (estimated at more than 700 million) but also because of its profound influence on many other religions during its long, unbroken history, which dates from about 1500 BC. ... Most Hindus chant the gayatri hymn to the sun at dawn, but little agreement exists as to what other prayers should be chanted. ... One of the "four goals of humanity- (along with pleasure, profit, and release), dharma represents the belief that the way things are (descriptive law), for example, the sun rises in the east, is inseparable from the...

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The same German aesthetic tradition can also be found in J.J Winckelmann's writings, such as "History of the Art of Antiquity", "Thoughts on the Imitation of the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks", and G.E Lessing's "Laocöon". ... The development of art from one form to the other is what Hegel defines as the history of art. ... The Zoroastrians believed then that all things with the presence of light, such as the stars, the moon, the sun, and the fire, are actually Ormudz, himself. ...

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If the time is taken to look back at Christianity's history it is easily seen that Christianity has worked hand in hand with science to help promote its growth, not its stifle. ... "Early Christians also rejected belief in cyclical time, the conviction that history replays itself in great, ineluctably recurring phases" (Carroll/Shiflett, p.60). ... There defiantly weren't any conflicts as of yet in Christian history. ... Copernicus, an astronomer, came up with the idea that the sun was the center of the universe, not the earth, and Galileo furthered this idea and published writing...

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Religions do not miraculously appear in history out of a blank space. ... As the story goes, "the first generation of Mesopotamian gods were the gods of light and darkness, the second generation were the gods of fresh and salt waters, the third generation were the gods of all forms of vegetation, the fourth generation were the gods of the sun, moon and stars, the fifth generation were the gods of the living creatures of the earth, and the sixth generation god Marduk created humans so that they could be slaves to the gods.... On this day, God created the sun, moon, and the stars; "th...

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Apollo is the god of sun, music, arts, knowledge, healing, plague, darkness, beauty and enlightenment. ... " That person by definition in "The Sacred Quest" represents "certain persons is a characteristic of numerous religious traditions, most obviously those whose history points to a founder or great figure at the beginning of the tradition.... While others religions have focused on the earth, the sky and or the sun. ...

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Furthermore, evidence of connections between these stimuli and religious fervor is apparent throughout history. ... This particular sentiment has been prevalent throughout recorded history, with countless cults and organized religions engaging in torture, sacrifice, and murder of non-believers (Buckman 31). This limbic-religious belligerence is even apparent in the history of one of the modern days" most dominant religion, Christianity. ... Similar rage and murderous reactions were characteristic of many aggressive, jealous, conquering, angry, and belligerent patriarchal gods throughout hist...

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