And Now, for Something Completely Different

Well, I've got myself a head cold as of yesterday around lunch time.   Sneezed like I was getting paid for it, all day into the night.   Spent the afternoon on the computer listening to lectures on YouTube.   Had a limited night's sleep so I've been surfing the net today as I rest in bed, drinking tea.    In a conversation with a friend,  it was suggested I check out Red Ice Creations website which I did.    Found some very interesting info on, oh you know, Secret Societies,  Ancient Symbology, Astro-theology (Hi, Zacharia Sitchin, my old buddy....)  

Anywho, As Michael Tsarion (great series on YouTube entitled "The Origins of Evil" in 13 parts) kept mentioning the Atenists.....so I looked up Aten and here's what I found:

Here is wiki blurb:

Both Ra and Horus characteristics are part of the god, but the god is also considered to be both masculine and feminine simultaneously. All creation was thought to emanate from the god and to exist within the god. In particular, the god was not depicted in anthropomorphic (human) form, but as rays of light extending from the sun's disk. Furthermore, the god's name came to be written within a cartouche, along with the titles normally given to a Pharaoh, another break with ancient tradition.


Aten
The Aten, the sun-disk, first appears in texts dating to the 12th dynasty, in The Story of Sinuhe, where the deceased king is described as rising as god to the heavens and uniting with the sun-disk, the divine body merging with its maker.[2]
Ra-Horus, more usually referred to as Ra-Herakhty (Ra, who is Horus of the two horizons), is a synthesis of two other gods, both of which are attested from very early on. During the Amarna period, this synthesis was seen as the invisible source of energy of the sun god, of which the visible manifestation was the Aten, the solar disk. Thus Ra-Horus-Aten was a development of old ideas which came gradually. The real change, as some see it, was the apparent abandonment of all other gods, above all Amun, and the introduction of monotheism by Akhenaten.[3] The syncretism is readily apparent in the Great Hymn to the Aten in which Re-Herakhty, Shu and Aten are merged into the creator god.[4] Others see Akhenaten as a practitioner of an Aten monolatry.[5]

Pretty interesting eh?   The Sun (Son) rising to return to the Creator/Source/Light (Father).    This is even similar to the old Vedantists and Yogis of India saying that we are all a manifestation of Light and at death or total Enlightenment return to dissolve back into Light.   I can get with that.  :-)

Our god is a sun god, RA RA RA!
Our god is a fun god, RA RA RA!!! 

(feel free to wave your pom poms at any time)