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Praise the sun! (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That people weren't tricked into work. They were paid for it and likely held great pride in it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I reacted to, paraphrased: "you can't control people with sun worship".

During his reign, Akhenaten instated monotheistic worship of Aten - the sun disc - and did away with all other gods worshipped in Egypt at that time. Whether or not the workers who built his monuments were paid well I do not know - I suspect you have the Diary of Merer in mind, but remember that Khufu's and Akhenaten's respective reigns were more than a thousand years apart - as a pharaoh, Akhenaten could most certainly control people. And if you believe religion can be used as a means to control people, this is definitely a historic example of sun worship being used to this end, wouldn't you agree?