Born of the Sun

He and three young apprentices set out in secret to search for this maiden. They must each find her through their own intuition as to her identity, for her protection is a secret even to her own family. Found in a small village near the Caspian Sea, young Tyi, future Queen of Egypt, returns with them and is placed under the guardianship of the temples until she becomes of age. Once she begins her flow she is married to the Pharaoh. Her winning personality and uncanny wisdom soon make her the favorite wife and advisor to Amunhotep III. She soon becomes pregnant with Akhenaton.

Opposing her position are another son of the Pharaoh and some of the Amun priests. They plot to prevent the birth of ascension to the throne through a number of maneuvers. Miatron and Tyi speak consistently to the child in the womb to give it precognition upon its birth. Born Amunhotep IV, the child is sheltered by mother and High Priest to prevent his corruption by the Amun priests. Finally, forced to enter his training for succession to the throne, the young prince ignores most of the temple teachings in favor of those of Tyi and Miatron.

Immediately upon his father's death he disappears, called to training by the ancient masters hidden away in caves near the Nile halfway between Thebes and Memphis. Inside these caves are secret Temples of Light, there since the days of the lost continent of Atlantis. During his absence a number of ploys are attempted by his half-brother, Akenset, son of one of the lesser wives and other discontented officials to defer his coronation in Akenset's favor. The popular Tyi and Miatron solely prevent this, now on his deathbed. Upon his return Amunhotep IV is crowned under his new name, Akhenaton.

For a time, Akhenaton attempts to bring about a gradual movement away from the corrupt Amun priesthood to the one God, Aton, and Source of All Creation from the Central Sun. This was not an original idea, as he was taught in the Temples of Light, but a return to Source which had been diluted by the myriad of gods that filled the Amun temples of Egypt and Babylon. Resistance to change was entrenched by a priesthood enriched by a public only too willing to pay for their supplications to the angry gods instilled by irreverent predecessors to maintain control.

Akhenaton finally felt he was left with no alternative but to destroy the symbols of the lesser gods in the temples. This further alienated him from the priests and many government officials. He lost the loyalty of the army, foreign minister, and minister of affairs by his pacifist beliefs, refusing to support military ventures or to increase requested taxes to support them. Tyi was a unifying force, strong in support of her son, but flexible in negotiation. Both she and her son were popular with the masses. His half-brother, Akenset, now High Priest of Upper and Lower Egypt was displeasing to all.

Always in the front of Akhenaton's mind was the vision of a City of Light to be located near the Temple of Light in the caves. Finally, left with no choice but to remove his government from the corruption of Thebes, he began the construction of the city, Akhetaton. His loyal and adept mother remained in Thebes to outmaneuver the government officials and priests left behind. His beautiful and charming queen, Nefretiti, remained to entertain the numerous foreign dignitaries and representatives of vassal territories who continually coursed in and out of the powerful Egypt.

Akhetaton was magical in both appearance and the energy it created. Light, color, and sacred geometry were incorporated in each building, especially that of the Temple of Light, a holy temple which had, as its objective, to be an instrument in elevating the thinking and body manifestation to Christhood of fifty men and fifty women. To draw the attention of the Amun priests and military officials away from the real objective of the city Akhenaton built a magnificent temple at its entryway and a majestic palace to his queen, Nefretiti, who continued to receive dignitaries.

Many indignities were perpetrated on Akhenaton by his half-brother, disgruntled military officers, and the priesthood in an attempt to defame what they regarded as their "heretic king." Only his and Tyi's popularity with the masses saved him from being prematurely dethroned. However, he knew he was in a race with his inevitable demise, that eventually he would lose both his life and his throne. It took five years of concentrated effort to elevate the requested number of people to the purity he desired, when this was accomplished they were sent to the Dead Sea. With Egypt crumbling and unable to either find or pursue them they wrote and lived among the people of that area. Their writings on scrolls were hidden in caves. They were eventually known as the Essenes. They were there to write and pave the way for the man known as Yeshua ben Joseph, Jesus the Christ.

He is a Korean War Veteran, and taught English to the foreign born at the Chosun Christian University in Pusan, Korea following the war. He was employed by an international bank, president of a water management corporation (during which he developed a number of innovative inventions in the field of bioaugmentation, pollution control, and aeration), water resources consultant to government and developers (during which time he wrote water operations manuals for housing and industrial developments), as well as a number of years in computer programming and marketing. Always interested in peace and unity among nations he was co-chairman of the Arizona Society for Peace which united many churches of all faiths behind the worldwide moment of peace on December 31, 1986, when over 50 million people all over the world came together in spirit. He has been listed in Who's Who in California.

It was during his studies at the American Graduate School of International Management in Glendale, AZ, that he felt a calling to travel for a year to the sacred sites in Central and South America.

Later, he felt a call from the Pharaoh, Akhenaton, which drew him to Egypt. The memories were so brilliant it was as though he were Akhenaton, himself. He saw the temples, colors, and even experienced the emotions of that life as though recalling childhood memories rather than the life of another.

It was mystical how the life of Akhenaton paralleled his present one, as though he had awakened later to complete it. He had numerous dreams as a child where he would rebuild cities with buildings far superior to any existing at this time. All his life he sought a religion of love and non-judgment, not existing in this dimension. He envisioned communities with buildings utilizing sacred geometry. As his consulting involved him in well over a hundred residential and commercial projects he always envisioned an approach which would preserve water and the environment, move people in a less intrusive way, and generate a greater sense of unity and well being.

Having written more than thirty books of a technical nature he was driven to write a historical novel of the time of Akhenaton, from memory rather than from the few documented writings of others. Akhenaton’s message is as meaningful today as it was 3,200 years ago.

This is Ehrton’s first novel.