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How did Akhenaten differ from his predecessors in his religious practices?

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Whereas the old deities were accessible to all Egyptians through worship, the only intercessor between the Aten and its people was Akhenaten himself (Ikram 101, Redford, “Akhenaten: New Theories and Old Facts", 26). Soon he began taxing the temples of the old gods and redirecting the revenue to his own projects.

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