God Yahweh Allah was a volcano.

[popeyespappy]

Magnanimous priests? Shock

There’s an argument I never expected to hear from Minimalist.

Why is getting what you want "magnanimous," Pap? It isn't as if they agreed to let the Aten cult exist side by side with Amun ( a decidedly Roman solution to such a problem, btw.) Letting them back in without fighting ( which can get messy ) is a highly profitable solution and priests are always in favor of profit...as long as the profit ends up in their pious pockets!

I believe there are now a couple of schools of thought on the fate of the old gods/temples/priests during the Amarna period. The original “Those guys sure took it up the ass” hypothesis saw them loose Pharaoh’s recognition and financial support, the priests laid off, and the temples closed. A newer “It wasn’t so bad after all” school of thought seems to be gaining support lately though.

If you go with the original hypothesis on the fate of the priests of the old gods then your plan B, kill them, seems a more likely scenario than welcoming the maverick priests back into the fold. The old school priests would have been acting quite magnanimously to welcome the upstarts back into the fold if they had been taking it up the ass for the past several years. There was a concerted effort to erase all traces of Akhetaten and his upstart cult within a relatively short time of his death. That being the case, it would at least seem that someone wasn’t happy with him or his upstart religion.