Crossword-Solution: ATON 4 letters, 132 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Nature her self does _Scotch_-men Beasts confess, Making their Country such a Wilderness; A Land that brings in Question and Suspence God's Omnipresence but that _Charles_ came thence, But that _Montrose_ and _Crawford's_ Royal Band Aton'd their Sin, and Christened half the Land.

Here, floating in her golden barge, which was named _Aton-gleams_, the Queen might look westwards over the tree-tops to the splendid Theban hills towering above the palace, and eastwards to the green valley of the Nile and the three great limestone hills beyond.

Probably they would have taken stronger measures to resist this foreign god had it not been for the fact that Atum of Heliopolis, an ancient god of Egypt, was on the one hand closely akin to Ra, the associated deity with Amon, and on the other hand to Aton of Syria.

Thus Aton might be regarded merely as another name for Ra or Amon-Ra; but the danger to the old _régime_ lay in the fact that with the worship of Aton there went a certain amount of freethought.

The sun and its warm rays were the heritage of all mankind; and the speculative mind of the Asiatic, always in advance of the less imaginative Egyptian, had not failed to collect to the Aton-worship a number of semi-philosophical teachings far broader than the strict doctrines of Amon-Ra could tolerate.