Also, the author has shown in his studies of the Egyptian obelisks, Sun-temples, and Cosmogony, that the term 'horizon of heaven' refers to eclipses of the Sun and not the horizon. The egyptologists have always thought that The Great Hymn to the Aten describes the daily rising and setting of the Sun. O Living Aten, Beginner of Life. O Living Aten, Beginner of Life. The King enjoyed watching totality and was most influenced by the eclipse.
All cattle are at peace in their meadows.
2.They praise the appearance of their god. 3.The birds fly from their nests in the early morning, not in the daytime, i.e., near totality they thought that night was coming and went to sleep, and when totality passed, they flew happily again. This is one more indication that the Hymn describes a total solar eclipse. It indicates the return to the old religion after the death of King Akhenaten. Hail to you, the luminous, the sharp, Atum-Horakhty, as you are risen in the horizon of the sky, praises to you are in every mouth, the perfect, the young one in the Aten within the arm of your mother Hathor.