Actual physical manifestation of the Sun God Re, the Face of Ra. The Disc of the Sun, the creator according to Akhenaten. There is but one God, Aten is His Name and Akhenaten is his prophet. Sun disc with rays ending with human-like hands.

solar disk: under Akhenaten worshiped as the medium through which the divine power of light comes into the world

The Aten is the sun-disc god, worshipped as the one true deity during the reign of Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten). Represented as a sun disc with human arms bearing the ankh (life) sign.

The god of the universe, whom Akhnetaten raised above all the other gods during the Amarna period, in the 18th dynasty.

(Pronounced ‘Ah-ten'.) The deified sun disc.

The god that gained its prominence during the reign of Akhenaten, who abolished the traditional cults of Egypt and replaced them with the Aten. This created the first monotheistic cult in the world. BA. . The ba can best be described as someone's personality. Like a person's body, each ba was an individual. It entered a person's body with the breath of life and it left at the time of death. The ba is associated with divinity and power. It had the ability to take on different forms, in this respect the gods had many bas. The ba of the deceased is able to move freely between the underworld and the physical world. The ba is similar to the ka.