Karen Karnak:About
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In 1380 BCE, Amonhotep IV ascended the throne. Soon after he started reversing the practices of Amon’s priests. The great temple at Karnak was full of women, ostensibly for the pleasure of the god Amon, his priests naturally used on behalf of the god by (258). The traffic of the priests in magic and their use of Amon to support religious obscurantism, disgusted him, “More evil are the words of the priests...� (260). He declared that all these gods and rites were a vulgar idolatry and there was only one god-Aton.
He changed his own name from Amonhotep to Ikhnaton (Aton is satisfied). With the help of old hymns and some monotheistic poems, he composed a hymn to Aton (263) which was the first significant expression of monotheism 700 years before Isiah (the similarity between this poem and Psalm CIV points to the inspiration of the poem upon the Psalm (264). Aton is the god of all nations. It is to be found in all living beings. Aton becomes a compassionate and solicitous father, a gentle and peaceful god, not a ferocious one like Yahweh (266).Â
He ordered that Amon be removed from all hymns and prayers and erased from every public inscription, mutilating his father’s name to remove Amon from monuments. All temples were to be closed. He abandoned Thebes as a corrupt capital and built Aketaton-“the city of the horizon of Aton�.
He forbade artists to make images of Aton, as the true god had no form (268). They were free to paint all other life forms, which they did with abandon (269).
Ikhnaton failed to realize that the polytheism was too deeply rooted and the monotheism too profound for the intelligence of his subjects for them to give up one and accept another. He did, however, alienate the powerful priestly class. Hacking Amos out of his father’s name was blasphemy, as ancestral worship was vital.
The priests plotted and hatched conspiracies, while the people surreptitiously followed the old religion.
He had seven daughters, but no son. He preferred to remain faithful to his Queen Nofretete, rather than seek a son with another wife, concubine.
Hittites were attacking Egypt’s near East dependencies. The governors asked for help. Ikhnaton was not quite sure the right of conquest justified keeping the colonies or if he should let his soldiers die to keep them. The colonies stopped paying tribute and sent the Egyptian governors away. Soon the Egyptian treasure was empty.
Hardly thirty, he died, a broken man in 1362 BCE.
Decline:
Tutenkhaton, the name given to him by his father in law, Ikhnaton, ascended the throne two years after Ikhnaton’s death. He was a favorite of the priests and changed his name to Tutenkhaton. He returned to Thebes, had the names Aton and Ikhnaton removed from all the documents. His reign was undistinguished and he is known mainly for the treasure found in his tomb. After him, a general Harmhab under Seti I subdued the region all along the coast and the king built the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak (272), and began the Abu Simbel temple.
Rameses II followed him. He was conscious of his triumph in a juvenile fashion and never tired of recounting his exploits in war and love. He sent an expedition to Nubian gold mines and spent the funds in re-conquering the Asian provinces. He defeated an alliance of his Asiatic opponents at Kadesh (1288 BCE) by sheer daring and recovered Palestine. A lot of Jews were thus brought into Egypt and he is believed to have been the Pharaoh of the Exodus (273). He commemorated his victories on fifty walls and presented himself with a reward of several hundred wives. He married several of his own daughters for purity of line. His progeny were so many that that for four hundred years, rulers were chosen from them.
His reign was pretty successful. Commerce flourished, he built another canal from the Nile to the Red sea, completed the hall at Karnak, finished Abu Simbel, added to the Luxor temple and built his own shrine Ramesseum, west of the river and scattered huge monuments to himself through the land.
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Frozen frames in which moments of time are selected -
Karen Karnak was once a ghost writer for a prominent politician - as one of many writers who's work was later claimed by the politician as their 'own' work
Karen Karnak is a good friend of Allen Smithee - I saw them together -in the flesh -so to speak-
Who are any of us?
Don't we all have innervoices which clash with each other?
Constantly fighting to bring out some sort of demented reality,
which we personify to the world....who are you?
Identity parade #37
Good old Uncle Karnak- on German television again
is this a photo of the television, or the picture ?
I am the work you see here
read my Karens Video Journalyou shall know me by my actions
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22nd May 2009
forgotten who i am. look up my profile. again. memory in the mirror. will this reflection work?
the posture and pose i see in the street and the junkmail.
i forget again and re-learn the customs of the other/another.
shadows pass over the canvas of my imagined identity.
sell f.
20 +1 + 50 + 200 + 1 + 20 + 50 + 5 + 200 + 1 + 20 = 568 which of course can be reduced to 19 The Kabbalah of Karen Karnak The sepher sephiroth places all manner of significances upon this number 19 - such as 'a job' and 'an enemy' livelihood... the wicked signification of activity
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13 SE LLAMA MI MADRE
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