Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters
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January 26, 2026 at 1:26 AM
The ancient Egyptians tried this with Akhenaten ;)
January 24, 2026 at 3:35 PM
The ancient Egyptians tried this with Akhenaten ;)
"Akhenaten (14th Century B.C.): His reforms were so hated that he was erased from history for over 3,000 years until his tomb was found in 1907. He was sometimes referred to as "the enemy" or "the criminal" in later records . . ."
Hoping we can do the same for donald trump when he's gone.
Hoping we can do the same for donald trump when he's gone.
January 23, 2026 at 7:50 PM
"Akhenaten (14th Century B.C.): His reforms were so hated that he was erased from history for over 3,000 years until his tomb was found in 1907. He was sometimes referred to as "the enemy" or "the criminal" in later records . . ."
Hoping we can do the same for donald trump when he's gone.
Hoping we can do the same for donald trump when he's gone.
Reissue of the Spiritual Jazz masterpiece from 2009 by one of the greatest - Nat Birchall
Nat Birchall – Akhenaten
Ancient Archive of Sound – AAOS 232 | 2023
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Nat Birchall – Akhenaten
Ancient Archive of Sound – AAOS 232 | 2023
#NatBirchall #jazz #jazzvinyl #vinyl #vinylcollection #recordcollection #nowplaying #nowspinning #recordoftheday #musicsky
January 23, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Reissue of the Spiritual Jazz masterpiece from 2009 by one of the greatest - Nat Birchall
Nat Birchall – Akhenaten
Ancient Archive of Sound – AAOS 232 | 2023
#NatBirchall #jazz #jazzvinyl #vinyl #vinylcollection #recordcollection #nowplaying #nowspinning #recordoftheday #musicsky
Nat Birchall – Akhenaten
Ancient Archive of Sound – AAOS 232 | 2023
#NatBirchall #jazz #jazzvinyl #vinyl #vinylcollection #recordcollection #nowplaying #nowspinning #recordoftheday #musicsky
A wonderful example from Chichester Cathedral - from @jdmccafferty.bsky.social - of the rewriting of the past in action and the literal erasure of a disliked leader from history... it didn't just happen to pharaoh Akhenaten, although that's possibly the most famous example 🙂
January 23, 2026 at 10:08 AM
A wonderful example from Chichester Cathedral - from @jdmccafferty.bsky.social - of the rewriting of the past in action and the literal erasure of a disliked leader from history... it didn't just happen to pharaoh Akhenaten, although that's possibly the most famous example 🙂
Interesting, I had a thing for an Asian actor who somewhat channeled Akhenaten & his stills never did him the justice his filmed & taped scenes did. Tried to grab a still to show an interested friend & it was impossible. Chen is also mesmerizing on screen but somehow stills don't show it well.
January 23, 2026 at 6:32 AM
Interesting, I had a thing for an Asian actor who somewhat channeled Akhenaten & his stills never did him the justice his filmed & taped scenes did. Tried to grab a still to show an interested friend & it was impossible. Chen is also mesmerizing on screen but somehow stills don't show it well.
oh i get it you saw me talking about akhenaten and were interested in the fact that i suggested they were gendernonconfirming or nonbinary and YOU thought that confirmed they were some manner of contrarian degenerate not that they were fucking right to throw god in the mud
January 22, 2026 at 2:06 AM
oh i get it you saw me talking about akhenaten and were interested in the fact that i suggested they were gendernonconfirming or nonbinary and YOU thought that confirmed they were some manner of contrarian degenerate not that they were fucking right to throw god in the mud
im just trying to say the fact that amunites kidnapped tutankhaten and changed is name and smashed all his dad's statues and set worship status quo back to what it was then maybe akhenaten was right to say their particular priesthood shouldnt be the one in charge of the world
January 22, 2026 at 1:34 AM
im just trying to say the fact that amunites kidnapped tutankhaten and changed is name and smashed all his dad's statues and set worship status quo back to what it was then maybe akhenaten was right to say their particular priesthood shouldnt be the one in charge of the world
Oh you don't need to tell me about how Peter Thiel and whatshisnuts Karp could not be possibly be more Saruman with those Palantiri of theirs because they forget the lessons of Aule, Feanor, and Melkor
nah the history on akhenaten is wrong, because we're taking the amunite priest propaganda
nah the history on akhenaten is wrong, because we're taking the amunite priest propaganda
January 22, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Oh you don't need to tell me about how Peter Thiel and whatshisnuts Karp could not be possibly be more Saruman with those Palantiri of theirs because they forget the lessons of Aule, Feanor, and Melkor
nah the history on akhenaten is wrong, because we're taking the amunite priest propaganda
nah the history on akhenaten is wrong, because we're taking the amunite priest propaganda
ew objectivists can get fucked that shit is dumb and wrong as hell
no see i think akhenaten, potentially through the tutelage of amenhotep iii, disliked the centralization of divine right in Amun-Ra and replaced it in reverence with a more egalitarian force, hence the many hands of a formless disc
no see i think akhenaten, potentially through the tutelage of amenhotep iii, disliked the centralization of divine right in Amun-Ra and replaced it in reverence with a more egalitarian force, hence the many hands of a formless disc
January 22, 2026 at 12:06 AM
ew objectivists can get fucked that shit is dumb and wrong as hell
no see i think akhenaten, potentially through the tutelage of amenhotep iii, disliked the centralization of divine right in Amun-Ra and replaced it in reverence with a more egalitarian force, hence the many hands of a formless disc
no see i think akhenaten, potentially through the tutelage of amenhotep iii, disliked the centralization of divine right in Amun-Ra and replaced it in reverence with a more egalitarian force, hence the many hands of a formless disc
So I think that we smear Akhenaten as "the first monotheist" or even a monotheist dictator or something is like if Robert Oppenhiemer invented like, lego instead of the nuclear bomb and STILL yelled that he was still the destroyer of worlds and history agreed for some reason
January 21, 2026 at 11:30 PM
So I think that we smear Akhenaten as "the first monotheist" or even a monotheist dictator or something is like if Robert Oppenhiemer invented like, lego instead of the nuclear bomb and STILL yelled that he was still the destroyer of worlds and history agreed for some reason
the fact that the second he died, essentially, the old Amun priesthood functionally claimed/kidnapped Tutankhaten and renamed him to restore the old priestly order to the halls of power as their puppet regent.
That said, i think the cat was out of the bag, so Akhenaten kinda won
That said, i think the cat was out of the bag, so Akhenaten kinda won
January 21, 2026 at 11:27 PM
the fact that the second he died, essentially, the old Amun priesthood functionally claimed/kidnapped Tutankhaten and renamed him to restore the old priestly order to the halls of power as their puppet regent.
That said, i think the cat was out of the bag, so Akhenaten kinda won
That said, i think the cat was out of the bag, so Akhenaten kinda won
Well, and also the fact that Akhenaten replaced Amun, his bird-headed dad that was combined with Ra into Aumn-Ra for organizational and political reasons to rule the north and south, and replaced it with a circle with a million hands that give people like, food and help and stuff, idk
January 21, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Well, and also the fact that Akhenaten replaced Amun, his bird-headed dad that was combined with Ra into Aumn-Ra for organizational and political reasons to rule the north and south, and replaced it with a circle with a million hands that give people like, food and help and stuff, idk
I was driving home last night. . And my choice of music was determined by the voice recognition's difficulty with Egyptian (Akhenaten) and German (Parsifal) words so I settled for Sanskrit.(Satyagraha).
Grrrrr
Grrrrr
January 21, 2026 at 11:02 PM
I was driving home last night. . And my choice of music was determined by the voice recognition's difficulty with Egyptian (Akhenaten) and German (Parsifal) words so I settled for Sanskrit.(Satyagraha).
Grrrrr
Grrrrr
The Druze are an Abrahamic sect that is outside of the big three of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, that often gets overlooked. They view Akhenaten as a sort of vanguard prophet for Tawhid, their concept of monotheism.
The Thutmose that they just unveiled is his great-great-great grandfather.
The Thutmose that they just unveiled is his great-great-great grandfather.
January 20, 2026 at 9:54 PM
The Druze are an Abrahamic sect that is outside of the big three of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, that often gets overlooked. They view Akhenaten as a sort of vanguard prophet for Tawhid, their concept of monotheism.
The Thutmose that they just unveiled is his great-great-great grandfather.
The Thutmose that they just unveiled is his great-great-great grandfather.
The ancient Egyptians were in Egypt. Except The Akhenaten priests who fled to Canaan after his death . Possibly introducing monotheism to the polytheistic Hebrews .
Of course the Egyptians mentioned defeating an “ Israel “ in The Merneptah Stele in 1200 BCE but it could have been a myth -
Of course the Egyptians mentioned defeating an “ Israel “ in The Merneptah Stele in 1200 BCE but it could have been a myth -
January 19, 2026 at 10:23 PM
The ancient Egyptians were in Egypt. Except The Akhenaten priests who fled to Canaan after his death . Possibly introducing monotheism to the polytheistic Hebrews .
Of course the Egyptians mentioned defeating an “ Israel “ in The Merneptah Stele in 1200 BCE but it could have been a myth -
Of course the Egyptians mentioned defeating an “ Israel “ in The Merneptah Stele in 1200 BCE but it could have been a myth -
Compare Trump’s butthurt letter to Norway with this Bronze Age king’s butthurt letter to the Pharoah that his gifts were gold-plated and not solid gold.
!["I...asked your father, Mimmureya, for statues of solid cast gold, one of myself and a second statue, a statue of Tadu-Heba (Tadukhepa), my daughter, and your father said, "Don't talk of giving statues just of solid cast gold. I will give you ones made also of lapis lazuli. I will give you, too, along with the statues, much additional gold and (other) goods beyond measure." Every one of my messengers that were staying in Egypt saw the gold for the statues with their own eyes. Your father himself recast the statues [in the presence of my messengers, and he made them entirely of pure gold....He showed much additional gold, which was beyond measure and which he was sending to me. He said to my messengers, "See with your own eyes, here the statues, there much gold and goods beyond measure, which I am sending to my brother." And my messengers did see with their own eyes! But my brother (ie:
Akhenaten) has not sent the solid (gold) statues that your father was going to send. You have sent plated ones of wood.
Nor have you sent me the goods that your father was going to send me, but you have reduced (them) greatly. Yet there is
nothing I know of in which I have failed my brother. Any day that I hear the greetings of my brother, that day I make a festive occasion...May my brother send me much gold. [At] the kim[ru fe]ast.......with] many goods [may my] brother honor me. In my brother's country gold is as plentiful as dust. May my brother cause me no distress. May he send me much gold in order that my brother [with the gold and m]any [good]s, may honor me". (EA 27)'I2)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nrui3gcdys7pvkbxae4gsfyo/bafkreifqme2nfunfau4rniv7tyyhkjcursnhrmh7w4wvmuucxkkflmicwi@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Compare Trump’s butthurt letter to Norway with this Bronze Age king’s butthurt letter to the Pharoah that his gifts were gold-plated and not solid gold.
I say we go full Akhenaten when he’s gone.
January 19, 2026 at 5:01 PM
I say we go full Akhenaten when he’s gone.
#Sculpture, ‘Holding hands’ (c. 1350 B.C.) #art
Fragment of a statue discovered in Amarna, #Egypt, in a group of statues representing Akhenaten & Nefertiti
Fragment of a statue discovered in Amarna, #Egypt, in a group of statues representing Akhenaten & Nefertiti
January 19, 2026 at 1:03 PM
#Sculpture, ‘Holding hands’ (c. 1350 B.C.) #art
Fragment of a statue discovered in Amarna, #Egypt, in a group of statues representing Akhenaten & Nefertiti
Fragment of a statue discovered in Amarna, #Egypt, in a group of statues representing Akhenaten & Nefertiti
All good picks. A very tough choice though. I'd invite Bowie along with Akhenaten, Elizabeth I, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Dorothy Dunnett.
January 19, 2026 at 10:12 AM
All good picks. A very tough choice though. I'd invite Bowie along with Akhenaten, Elizabeth I, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Dorothy Dunnett.
am i saying akhenaten was the first nonbinary autistic pharoh i mean you tell me look at all the cool stuff they and their hot lesbian wife gave their kid and how much sick art of his girlboss queen bestie there is still even though everyone HATED them so much after they died they smashed statues
January 19, 2026 at 2:50 AM
am i saying akhenaten was the first nonbinary autistic pharoh i mean you tell me look at all the cool stuff they and their hot lesbian wife gave their kid and how much sick art of his girlboss queen bestie there is still even though everyone HATED them so much after they died they smashed statues
as someone who has been atypically interested but not done any particularly rigorous study of akhenaten this image is very funny and also very helpful for me
January 18, 2026 at 11:53 PM
as someone who has been atypically interested but not done any particularly rigorous study of akhenaten this image is very funny and also very helpful for me
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1. Deerhoof ❤️
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3. Butthole Surfers
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5. Gaburo’s Maladetto
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2. Horowitz
3. Butthole Surfers
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I always love seeing any mention of the Pharaoh Akhenaten. One my favorites 😍
January 18, 2026 at 12:38 AM
I always love seeing any mention of the Pharaoh Akhenaten. One my favorites 😍