Obliterating Akhenaten’s memory
As retribution for how his father curtailed the power of the priests of Amun, upon his death, the general Horemheb (1320-1292 BCE) attempted obliterating the memory of Akhenaten and his family from the historical record as he raised the old gods to their former heights. The power of the Aten cult and Akhenaten’s religious movement seems to survived nonetheless with Hebrew law-giver Moses said to have been a priest of Aten, who left Egypt with his followers to establish a monotheistic community elsewhere. Sigmund Freud’s work Moses and Monotheism handles this theory.
