What is a drawing of Muhammad?

[Leonardo17]

Akhenaten was, more accurately, a henotheist.  His desire to replace the egyptian pantheon at the state level with his favored deity from that pantheon being at odds with their acceptance of other cultures deities even if akhenatens reforms held - which they didn't.  That atenism (or abrahamism for that matter) is seen as "monotheistic" today boils down to a present cultural need to assert as much, but not the reality of the historic circumstances.  Ultimately, it's the theistic gods themselves, and not any particular number of them, which cause the issue.  All of them share in those two fundamental attributes of theistic gods and so all instantiate the issues of conceiving of divinity in that particular way.  You could pick any one of them..and we have...and you will see all of the same problems, which we have.  All we do when we posit a single deity is add totalitarianism to the list of defects.

 Akhenaten lived in 1350 BC. So our knowledge is still limited. But we know enough about him to affirm that he was an extraordinary person in many ways. For instance all the pharaoh’s before him we portrayed a God-like, young with V-shaped bodies. He is being portrayed as weak, sickly and even fat. He and his family look almost like creatures in some representations.

 





For comparision: Mycerinus and his Queen (Dynasty 4):




 
He was also tyrannical and overtly insane. He used to do things like making foreign ambassadors wait for hours under the Egyptian sun so that they would be blessed by the rays of Aten, the only God.
 
Egyptian wanted to erase all that’s left of him (including his son tut-Ankh –Amun) as quickly as possible because nobody really liked his completely extreme ideology.
 
I only mentioned him because the idea is good. It parallels the Hindu tradition that I understand as one universal energy, with many different types of more “specific” energies, going as far as each village and/or clan having their own deities on a more micro level.
 
Hittites on the other hand were henotheists. They were known as the people with a thousand deities. They simply assimilated all the Gods whenever they conquered a foreign land. (and I don't know of any other civilization who did that, at least not at that scale)