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ARYO-PH@NICIAN GOD & AKHEN-ATEN 265
As ‘“‘ Father-God’’ and creator and director of the Sun and the Universe he was usually called, as we have seen, by the Hitto-Sumerians Indurw or “ Indara,” the Indra of the Eastern Aryans and “ Indri”’ of the Goths, and to him most of the Sumerian and Vedic hymns, and the Early Briton votive monuments are addressed.
(Thus as Induru (or “ Indara’’) he is regularly called by the Sumerians “‘ the Creator ;’’ and so in the Vedas Indra is invoked as ‘‘ Creator of the Sun”’ (3, 49, 4), ‘““ who made the Sun to shine (8, 3, 6) and raised it high in heaven” (1, 7, 3). He is “Man’s sustainer, the bountiful and protector,” (8, 85, 20), “the most fatherly of fathers ”’ (ro, 48, 1), ‘‘ aye, our forefather’s Friend of old, swift to listen to their prayers” (6, 21, 8). ‘ There is no comforter but Thee, O Indra, lover of mankind ” (rz, 85, 19). Yet so specially was his bounty associated with the Sun that he still is hailed: “ Indra is the Sun ”’ (ro, 89, 2).]
It was presumably the re-importation of this Aryan idea of The One Father-God symbolized by the Sun, from SyriaPheenicia into Egypt, which occurred in or shortly before the reign of the semi-Syrian Pharaoh Akhen-aten, the father-inlaw of Tut-ankh-amen, and whom we have heard stigmatized so much lately as “ the heretic king” (sic), merely because he introduced into Egypt a purer and more refined form of Sun-worship over that contaminated with the animal worship of the ram-headed god Ammon, which predominated there in his day. The Living God behind the Sun, called by him “ The Living Aten,” is usually supposed, materialistically, to designate the radiant energy of the Sun in sustaining Life by his beams. But He is referred to as the universal creator, a god of Love and “ Father of the king,’ and he has “hands,” and in his pictorial representation each of the Sun’s beams ends in a helping hand stretched forth to man. The famous sublime hymn to this ‘‘ God of the Sun,” by Aken-aten and recorded in Egyptian writing over three centuries before David, is generally regarded as the nonJewish source from which the Hebrews derived the ro4th Psalm.* Now this priest-king Akhen-aten was the grandson, son and husband respectively of ‘‘ Syrian’ or Mitani
1 Prof, Breasted ; andcp. A. Weigall, Life and Times of Akhnaton 134, etc.