Aton

Japanese: アトン(英語表記)Aton
Aton
A sun god in Egyptian mythology. The name Aton means the sun disk. Amenhotep IV (→Akhenaten) of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt was the world's oldest religious reformer, who abandoned the traditional belief in Amon and recognized only the Aton religion as the official religion. The king himself renamed Amenophis (meaning "Amon is satisfied") to Akhenaten (the glory of Aton), abandoned Thebes, and built a new capital in Middle Egypt at Ikhutaton (the horizon of Aton), now Tell el-Amarna, and also founded the Nubian city of Highem-Aton. However, this belief in Aton declined soon after the king's death. Aton was said to give the splendor of Egypt, the creation and growth of all things, the alternation of the seasons, and the authority of kings, but he was always depicted only as a huge red sun disk.

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Japanese:
エジプト神話の太陽神。アトンという名は太陽の円盤を意味する。エジプト第 18王朝のアメンホテプ4世 (→イクナートン ) は世界最古の宗教改革者として従来のアモン信仰を捨て,アトン宗教のみを公式の宗教として認めた。王はみずからアメノフィス (「アモンは満足する」の意) の名をイクナートン (アトンの栄光) に改名し,テーベを捨て,中部エジプトのイクフータトン (アトンの地平線) ,現在のテルエル・アマルナに新都を建設し,またヌビアヒゲム・アトン市をつくった。しかし,このアトン信仰は王の死後まもなく衰えた。アトンは,エジプトの光輝,万物の創造と生育,四季の交替,王者の権威を与えるといわれたが,その姿は,常に赤い巨大な日輪でのみ表現された。

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