The Lord Hani Mysteriesby N.L. Holmes<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This story takes place during the period of Egypt\u2019s history known as the New Kingdom, when the country<br>had become an empire with holdings in Nubia to the south and throughout the Levant to the north. It<br>begins around 1350 BCE, the approximate date of the death of Amenhotep lll of Egypt. His son<br>succeeded him as Amenhotep IV, later changing his name to Akhenaten as he implemented his religious<br>reforms, replacing with the Aten the Theban gods Amen-Ra and his family and gradually the entire<br>Egyptian pantheon. Although this new religion is sometimes called monotheistic, it was more precisely<br>monolatrous. That is, Akhenaten didn\u2019t deny that Amen and other gods existed, he simply decreed that<br>the Aten was the only god Egypt would worship henceforth. Scholars are divided over the idea of a<br>coregency in Amenhotep lll\u2019s years later, but I have accepted that there was one and settled on a duration<br>of five years. Since Akhenaten is known to have resigned seventeen years, this would move his death date<br>earlier than the commonly accepted one.<br>The reign of Akhenaten marked a nearly unimaginable overturning of values and customs millennia old, a<br>testimony to the absolute power of the king. But judging by the speed with which his \u201creforms\u201d were<br>reversed after his death, we must assume that relatively few people really bought into them. His reign is<br>the first and only time that we find intolerance at work in pharaonic Egypt, a country of remarkable open-<br>mindedness, and episodes of defacing tombs, people reporting friends and family, changing their names,<br>etc., were real. <br>Lord Hani, our protagonist, was a historical person, whose travel as a royal emissary are attested by the<br>Amarna letters. This collection of diplomatic correspondences from the reigns of Amenhotep lll and IV<br>were found at Akhetaten (today Tell el-Amarna), the new capital established by Akhenaten. They were<br>mostly written in Akkadian, the diplomatic language of the period, thus deforming the Egyptian names<br>found in them, presumably according to the Semitic pronunciation. The troubles with the hapiru and<br>between kings which from the background to our story are described in the letters. Likewise, all the kings<br>and commissioners of Kharu with whom Hani deals in our story — the Lords Ptah-mes, Yanakh-amu, and<br>Yapakh-addi — are real, although the relationships and personalities given them in the book are fictitious.<br>Many of the clues are, in fact, events attested in the Amarna letters, but I have woven them together into a<br>fictional connection. Scholars are undecided whether Ptah-mes lived in the early or late part of<br>Amenhotep lll\u2019s reign; I have accepted the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord Hani Mysteriesby N.L. Holmes This story takes place during the period of Egypt\u2019s history known as the New Kingdom, when the countryhad become an empire with holdings in Nubia to the south and throughout the Levant to the north. Itbegins around 1350 BCE, the approximate date of the death of Amenhotep lll of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","category-nws","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28525,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28508\/revisions\/28525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}