Amenhotep IV he 1 ruled for the first five years

maintaining religious policies and traditions just like

his father. However, in his fifth year on the throne, he

underwent a profound religious transformation and

shifted his devotion from the cult of the god Amun to

the cult of the sun god Aten, disk of the sun, most

likely a symbolic grouping of the symbol of Ra. Over

the next 12 years, he brought about a fundamental

religious transformation, abolishing the traditional

religious rites of Egypt, primarily the cult of Amon.2,

and instituted the world's first known state,

monotheistic religion and, according to some,

monotheism itself.