In the 14th Century B.C. King Akhenaten, known as "The Heretic" ruled Egypt for what became known as the Armana Period. He has been hailed as the "first individual in history" by the American Egyptologist James Henry Breasted, viewed as the first monotheist by some scholars and Sigmund Freud acclaimed him as the inspiration for the monotheism of Moses! He swept away Osiris and all the other gods from the official state religion and replaced them with the one Aten, the sun disc. He is credited with composing a poem known as The Great Hymn to The Aten, which has been compared to Psalm 104. My painting shows the Aten spreading his rays (each bearing a tiny Ankh or symbol of life) over the growing wheat. It illustrates the lines, "Your rays suckle the fields. When you rise they live and grow for you".