![]() ![]() Pharoach Akhenaten sought to disestablish the old gods with a relatively unknown deity called the Aton as the Ammon, the present godly sponsor, had accumulated so much wealth and power that the Ammon priests began to rival to that of the Pharoach. The spine of the novel concerns the ferocious contention between Aton and the Ammon. He was not ready to merely worshipping the gods - in fact, he insisted on questioning traditions and thus marked him as an outsider of his own culture. Sinehu possessed such lonely idealism that motivated him to devote his life searching for something so intangible yet greater than he beyond his understanding did. ![]() At the core of the novel finds one man's lifelong journey through many countries, like Babylon, Crete, and Mitannia, to knowledge. On the outside The Egyptian delineates the history of Egypt through its inveterate religious devotion to many gods. As he narrates his life story, which transcended years of warfare, plague, and fierce battle between gods. The Egyptian is Sinuhe, a physician of unknown birth origin who was wrapped and cradled in a reed boat floating down the Nile. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |