{"database": "deitydb", "table": "entities", "rows": [["ENT_EGY_ATEN", "Aten", null, "Egyptian", "Solar deity", "Solar Deity", "sun; light; creation; sustenance; monotheism", null, null, null, "A", null, null, null, null, null, "The solar disk, worshipped as the sole deity during the Amarna Period under Pharaoh Akhenaten (c. 1353-1336 BCE). Aten is the visible disk of the sun and the light emanating from it, conceptualised as the direct creative and sustaining force of all life; the Great Hymn to the Aten (c. 1347 BCE) articulates an almost monotheistic theology in which Aten creates the world daily at dawn and maintains all creatures by its warmth and light. Unlike earlier solar deities (Ra, Khepri, Harakhty), Aten was not portrayed in human or animal form but as the disk with rays ending in hands that extend the ankh (life) to the royal family only. Aten had been a minor solar aspect since at least the Middle Kingdom (attested in the \"Story of Sinuhe,\" c. 1900 BCE) before Akhenaten elevated it to sole deity status. Wilkinson (2003) pp. 236-240; Murnane (1995) passim.", "deity"]], "columns": ["entity_id", "canonical_name", "greek_name", "tradition", "entity_type", "category", "primary_domains", "tags", "cult_scope", "primary_period", "evidence_confidence", "review_status", "inclusion_basis", "earth_association_score", "chthonic_flag", "serpent_flag", "short_note", "entity_class"], "primary_keys": ["entity_id"], "primary_key_values": ["ENT_EGY_ATEN"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.76747000002797, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}