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Title: Akhenaten: Egypt's False Prophet by C. N. Reeves, Nicholas Reeves ISBN: 0-500-05106-2 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: hitting the reader on the brain
Comment: Hitting Nail Head reviewer FELLOW shows little enlightenment in his comments. Limited intelligence, rather, all rote and book-learned thinking blazes thru, without a hint of common sense applied. I guess he never noticed Nefertitis eyes are BLUE, her skin is WHITE, and so are another couple of statues. He must be Art Deprived. OH WELL for you, nail hit on foot guy~your books must have had no illustrations.
I guess he also didnt notice Tut is asian looking as well as African looking. There are egyptian queen statues (go view them in ART) that look ENTIRELY oriental, as well as ENTIRELY african, and ENTIRELY caucasian. Dont the jews who claim to be from egypt have red hair and blue eyes sometimes? They certainly dont cross breed in their hasidic sect, yet there it is to look at. Amazing logic Mr. Nail shows. Modern Day Madagascarians have GREEN eyes and wooly COPPER colored hair - take a trip and learn your facts. It too is in AFRICA. Its obvious to me all races sprang from egypt and exodused to where they split up and remained till today, more than likely when violent ROME invaded, controlled by fear, and they preferred peace/exodus to fighting back. How each RACE today looks, indicates how the TRIBE who left looked. There were at least 12 tribes we know of, right? Or did you forget much of the bible is depicting Egypt?
Similar to how ALL DOG BREEDS stem from wolf, dingo, and fox mixed together, goes the logic of the races coming from Egypt. Egypt also PHYSICALLY went thru changing from very fertile, green land to desert as it is today, which would have caused an exodus of separate TRIBES to survive on better land. To mix the narrowed breeds of people we have today back together, you would result back with ALL the genes, looking like dingo, wolf or fox, i.e. EGYPTIAN originators, and people arent excluded from having racial, genetically-limited breeding same as animals.
Atenism was the fuzzy beginning of Roman/Greco imposition of forcing the "harm is good" philosophy on Egypt, the REMOVAL of belief in THIS life, and to trade living oppression for " heaven later ". They knew it was a bogus trade and didnt bite. The oppressors rewrote the egyptian Bible (which would be along the lines of the Psalms) to include a new Greco/Roman teacher purporting that "we should trade a stinky present life for a vague reward after death" or "pain is good"- this to a culture that believed one god made them, they never die, there is NO heaven, they return again and again in repeated lives, and LIFE is to be not a sorrow, but the blessing itself. Of course, Egypt never swallowed that logic, or reversing their current beliefs, as it was wholely absurd to them. It was all about oppression and roman RULE, and Ankhenaton was most likely doing what he had to do to try to appease the romans and greeks, (i.e. gain full control, and break the strong religious spirit of the people that indicated future TROUBLE to the romans)...while keeping the best peace he could for his people. It was one of the earliest attempts by the roman invaders, to remove the religion of the egyptian people, and it failed just like the whole 'throwing to lions escapade' failed. The author is on the right track when he says "it was an attempt to remove contact with god from the people", and "make the egyptian subjects more dependant on the king THRU using their devout spirituality and "need" for communication with god, as a weapon". Totally right. Go learn your egyptian Mr. Nail, they had 30 commandments that BLOW AWAY the ten we are left with today, they were ULTRA good compared to christianity in the modern world (vegetarian, never make another cry, never kill ANY living thing, etc.) They didnt believe in "loopholes", or "animal headed folks", they believed in all-inclusive GOOD, ONE GOD.
Mr. Nail, I contradict you, just as hinduism is today showing ASPECTS of ONE GOD'S personality thru varied pictures (strong elephant, all-reaching 8 armed, many-eyed all-seeing, etc), SO DID EGYPT draw him the SAME way. YOU probably also think HINDU = pagan, dont you. You need to broaden your horizons and learn a few basics. Egypt ALWAYS believed in one god, the invading roman/greco foreigners with THEIR OWN soap opera-ish, pagan diety pantheons mistook it for similarity on a personally-biased level, (they perceived what THEY were coming from)...and misrecorded it for history to come unravelled in the now.
Rather than a genetic disease, Ahkenatons face more likely betrays over inbreeding. The pharoahs of egypt were brothers and sisters, married, which caused inbreeding- ALWAYS not just a couple of odd times. Mr. Ahkenaton probably got unlucky in the process of his accidental genetic draw.
Good book for the new facts it shows. I bought it for the archaeological facts, NOT the opinions. :) If anything, Tut would have been murdered out of FEAR that what Ahkenaton did would EVER be repeated in the near future. Egypt and GOD were interdependant, not to be tampered with in the minds of the egyptians. Whats been left out, is that we're only pointing to Ahkenaton changing god's SYMBOL to "sun", and closing the temples. The facts omitted, are that this was only the tip of the iceberg - he tried to change ALL their beliefs and introduce the new "pain in life, pleasure in heaven" idea of oppression. It certainly couldnt have been ONLY a matter of symbol or something so small to cause his failure.
Rating: 3
Summary: Compiled new results by a forcible story.
Comment: This book is an interesting reading instead of archeological study.
N.Reeves includes result of the new archeology that there is not in C.Aldred and D.B.Redford.
However, a total style of reciting is forcible In a direction to affirm his insistence.
I think that we cannot understand a king before 3,300 year with a human being general idea of the 21th century.
It violates the same mistake that it considers him to be a pacifist and a devoted husband to liken him to a revolutionist and a dictator.
Even if it is hard to understand a real image rising from a document , it is historical fact.
I want to avoid judging a past with our value judgment of the present age.
What this book should evaluate is to have arranged a point at issue about this time to a compact, and it's demerit to lack humility for the history.
Rating: 1
Summary: Queen Kiya Speaks
Comment: When I read the review "Hitting the nail on the foot" it almost made me cry, he was so on the money Heaps of people who write books about Akhenaten miss the point of what he was trying to do. To all those authors out there who find Akhenaten a monster,the MAN was trying to unite everyone under one God so there would be peace in their hearts, in Egypt at the time there was 42 GODS which kept people apart and fighting like today with all the different religions Akhe was trying to unite people as one with God the bright shining light that is within all off us , so he made the sun his focus which represents the beautiful light beings we truly are. Yes Akhe was ahead of his time and for some people he still is.So Nicholas Reeves think again before you think Akhe is a monster.
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