Anita Arnott
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400 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 27 May
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Before Akhenaten, before the revolution that he brings about, there is a very rich tradition
tapestry of a religious world that he's born into, where there are pretty much gods for everything.
I mean, from the very, very small, you'll have a god of the liver to, you know, this sort of pantheon like Hindu gods, if you come from the Hindu tradition or Greek mythology.
And he is born to that richness, but he's about to destroy all of it.
Oh God, I love it.
There's a god of arthritis.
It also worked the other way around.
I mean, when the Greeks came to Egypt, Lloyd, they would look at Amun and say, well, that's Zeus, obviously, because the parallels were so maintained and they were so respected that people felt they could intertwine very easily.
So you had these teeny tiny gods.
Was there not a god of the temple hinge whose only job-
was to make sure the hinge opened the door.
And that had its own god.
Isn't that glorious?
Literally a god we can all pray to at some point or the other.
The centre of the system in this period is Amun-Ra.
Flesh Amun-Ra out for us because children will have seen the picture, you know, that line drawing of, you know, sort of, yeah, just describe it.
And the priests, they were very, very powerful.
I mean, not just powerful because they were the gateway to the great gods, but I mean, you also had them controlling.
I think, you know, the priests of Amun-ad-Karnak ran, what is it, 80% of the country's industrial output, you know, all of the arable output.
Absolutely.
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