Akhenaten полностью

it there ... a black face on the body of a lion, saying, 'I am the ruler. I am the lion. I am the King. I am asleep, but I've left a sign that before you were - I am, and after you go - I shall be. For I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending of it all."⁵

Numerology is used extensively in Farrakhan's cosmology, with particular importance given to the number 19. It provides, for instance, the key to the underlying mathematical codc of the Qu'ran, which will enable the Nation of Islam to transmit the message within it from God to humanity. Farrakhan used Akhenaten to validate his numerology in his speech at the Million Man March in Washington in October 1995, again in connection with the powerful number 19. Because the number 1 represents the masculine aspect of the self-created First Supreme Being, and 9 his feminine presence (embodied by the sun and nine planets), it also communicates a symbolic image of the cosmos. The number 19 represents the unity of the masculine and feminine and the power of reproduc­tion and creation, and thus the oneness of god and man.⁵' Akhenaten has an obvious significance in such an interpretation, since his body is perceived as combining masculine and feminine elements, and his religion as enabling humans to access the divine within themselves. In the same speech, Farrakhan pushes the parallels further. Among other important antecedents for the number 19, he points out that representations of Akhenaten in the presence of the Aten- disc show nineteen rays emanating from it, reaching out to touch the pharaoh and his family. '⁵ Then, in a neat piece of alternative philology, Farrakhan makes Akhenaten supremely relevant to the keynote of this portentous day. Farrakhan's central theme for the Million Man March was Atonement, because Atonement had enabled black people to survive in spite of centuries of hatred and oppres­sion. He enlists Akhenaten to provide an aetiology for a black Day of Atonement which has no connection with Judaco-Christian monotheism. What is the derivation of the word 'atonement'? Aton, of course (pronounced with both vowels long, unlike the British pronunciation). Under the reproduction obelisk which dominates the Washington Memorial, Farrakhan puts an Egyptian spin on the language of charismatic Christianity:

When you 'a-tone', if you take the t and couple it with the a and hyphen­ate it, you get at-one. So when you 'a-tone' you become 'at-one'. At one with who? The 'atone', or the one God.⁵¹'

Aton/aition