{"id":22419,"date":"2026-05-31T16:06:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T16:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22419"},"modified":"2026-05-31T16:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T16:06:30","slug":"the-pharaoh-who-transformed-ancient-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22419","title":{"rendered":"The Pharaoh Who Transformed Ancient Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pharaoh Akhenaten demoted all the gods of Egypt and commanded that only one god is worthy of worship&#8211;the disc of the sun. And, only Akhenaten could speak for that one worthy god. This could be seen as a precursor of monotheism. It wasn&#8217;t yet monotheism though, because Akhenaten didn&#8217;t deny the existence of other gods, just their worthiness of worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Pharaoh Who Transformed Ancient Egypt\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HbjaTxF8FoI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pharaoh Akhenaten demoted all the gods of Egypt and commanded that only one god is worthy of worship&#8211;the disc of the sun. And, only Akhenaten could speak for that one worthy god. This could be seen as a precursor of monotheism. It wasn&#8217;t yet monotheism though, because Akhenaten didn&#8217;t deny the existence of other gods, just their worthiness of worship. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HbjaTxF8FoI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1435,770,391,57],"class_list":["post-22419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-egypt","tag-history","tag-middle-east","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22420,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22419\/revisions\/22420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}