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How manifold it is, what thou has made, although mysterious in the face of humanity.

O sole god, without another beside him!

You create the earth according to your wish, being alone –

People, all large and small animals,

All things which are on earth, which go on legs, which rise up and fly by means of their wings,

The foreign countries of Kharu [Syria] and Kush [Nubia], and the land of Egypt.

You set every man in his place, you make your requirements, each one having his food and the reckoning of his lifetime.

Great Hymn of the Aton, quoted in Reeves, Egypt’s False Prophet, p. 143 – traditionally, history’s first significant monotheist

– traditionally, history’s first significant monotheist