Wise Friend,
How is the world of art doing?
Sensitive Friend,
Years ago, I went to an art exhibition from Akhenaten times – “Pharaoh of Gods”..
Pharaoh Akhenaten (Nefertiti was his wife, Tutankhamen, his son) created a new religion, to move away from worshipping animals towards monotheism.
He changed his people’s religion to sun worship, seen at the time as an intangible object, abstract–as one God. He didn’t acknowledge Osiris, the deity of death.
The Egyptian art of that time focused on the centrality of the family in their society, renouncing the god(s) of death.
After Akhenaten’s death, people reneged this religion, perceiving it as too abstract and a faith which gave up on so many of the celebrations available before.
On display, I saw a pair of cartouches used as objects of worship with inscriptions reflecting Pharaoh’s thoughts, if I’m correct. They looked so similar to the Jewish 10 Commandment plates.
Wise Friend,
Trivia we might forget?
Sensitive Friend
History of thoughts, worldviews, of religions in the making?
One abstract god, moving away from worshipping animals and the god of death, celebrating the love of the family, using inscriptions on a pair of cartouches as pieces of worship.
eachword-eachday 