Aton
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The sun god that Pharaoh Akhenaten made the only god in ancient Egypt
- proper noun
- Literature
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Aton
- Give yourselves to the great Aton, and you will know peace.
- the great Aton
Examples
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It's the symbol of the Sun God, Aton.
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Aton has abandoned me to war to madness to death.
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Yes, my vision of Aton, was beautiful.
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I prayed that Aton would teach you humility, and manners.
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He worshipped one god, Aton, the light of the sun, and he even built a city for that god.
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It's the symbol of the Sun God, Aton.
Synonyms
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The sun worshipped as a god in ancient Egypt under Akhenaten
is the same deity but in another spelling or form
Surface Forms
Aton main
Etymology
Aton comes from the ancient Egyptian word Aten, which meant the 'sun disk', a simple picture of the sun as a bright round disk in the sky. So Aton is the name of the sun god worshipped as the only god by Pharaoh Akhenaten.