Cursing Akhenaten Lyrics

Lyric discussion by iamthenightstars 

Cover art for Cursing Akhenaten lyrics by After the Burial

Akhenaten wanted to change the Egyptian religion and have there only be one main god, Aten. The people did not accept it and later after his death thought of him as an enemy. Maybe this song is showing how the Egyptians felt about him as a pharaoh.

"mocking the praised ones" could show how Akhenaten believed that the other gods were not important as to Aten.

@iamthenightstars it's not that I believed the other gods weren't important, it's that originally they were meant to be a part of teaching enlightenment, but much like with how modern Christianity is a perversion of its origins, the truth of the original Egyptian gods representing the human soul and its parts was lost, perverted and used for greed, power and control. When I came to realise enlightenment was literally from the light of the sun itself, I abolished all agents of enshroudment. I did not have the priests of amun and the other gods killed, because i did not want...