THE PYRAMIDS of the COLD • Chapter 60 Akhenaten and Nefertiti only wanted to theorize the evaporative cold and forget all about how it was made in the Great Pyramid
Publié par Bruno Coursol dans The Pyramids of the Cold le 21/09/2025 à 06:27
A small bust of Akhenaten (r. 1353-1336 BCE), pharaoh of Egypt in the 18th Dynasty. He is wearing the crown of Egypt. Photograph by John Bodsworth, Cairo Museum: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/5445/pharaoh-akhenaten-cairo-museum/ and bust of Queen Nefertiti from the Ägyptisches Museum Berlin collection, presently in the Neues Museum and photographed by Philip Pikart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefertiti#/media/File:Nofretete_Neues_Museum.jpg
Drawing of Shu by Jeff Dahl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shu_(Egyptian_god)#/media/File:Shu_with_feather.svg
Drawing of Tefnut by A8takashi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefnut#/media/File:Tefnut.png
THE PYRAMIDS of the COLD • Study written by Bruno COURSOL (from January 2021 to September 2025)
Section J • The obsession of the ancient Egyptians for Science and Technology
What egyptologists have really missed is the real cement, but also the obsession that the ancient Egyptians had with knowledge in general, science and technology in particular: their entire civilization was entirely focused on these disciplines. In many ways, they had absolutely nothing to envy of the development that the West achieved around the beginning of the 19th century AD.
Chapter 60 • Akhenaten and Nefertiti wanted to be seen as the first theoretical pharaoh physicists of evaporative cold and forget everything about the Great Pyramid's operation despite the people's attachement to it... and they failed
In summary: many things covered in this study are about experimental physics and its use in structures like mastabas and the great pyramids, in particular in the Great Pyramid and the creation of flash-evaporative cold, in opposition with theoretical physics; and for generations of ancient Egyptians, only what really happened in the Great Pyramid was worth worshiping, but with one exception: the couple that formed Shu and Tefnut who really are about the theorization of how was evaporative cold created, because Shu is the god of dry air and Tefnut the goddess of moisture. Associate them both and you created cold by evaporation of water.
Here, we’re gonna see the real intent of both Akhenaten and Nefertiti in rejecting almost every deities except Shu and Tefnut in one hand, and Aten in the other hand. It is very well documented, but very rarely promoted, that Akhenaten wanted to be seen as the god of dry air Shu, and Nefertiti wanted to be seen as the goddess of moisture; and if they did, it only is because they wanted both to be seen as the ones creating cold: it is by associating dry air with moisture that one can create evaporative cold. In other words, Akhenaten and Nefertiti wanted to stop with the old tradition of worshiping the Great Pyramid and all its technological prowess; they didn't want to talk about the many glorifications of the impactor anymore, or the many glorifications of the hauling process in the Grand Gallery, or the Bastet and Sekhmet check valve, etc. What they wanted to do is to stop worshiping the experimental side of what really happened physically in the Great Pyramid to produce flash-evaporative cold, and instead they wanted to promote the theoretical side of the adventure. But what egyptologists are revealing is that the people of ancient Egypt didn’t agree with them: they didn’t want to forget the Great Pyramid’s operation and all the extraordinary gods and goddesses who had been made to glorify it.
Akhenaten and Nefertiti, at the Louvre. Photograph by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dalbera/8736520486
Operating diagram of the Great Pyramid of Khufu designed for flash-evaporative cold production, hypothetically for industrial cooling of a Solvay or Solvay like process that would have been operated above the Grand Gallery.
60.01 Akhenaten the heretic king: the misleading theory of the monotheism of Akhenaten's religious changes
King Akhenaten was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the eighteenth Dynasty who abandoned Egypt's traditional polytheism for Atenism, a worship centered around one single god: Aten. But at the same time, Akhenaten represented himself as god Shu, and his wife Nefertiti as the ancient Egyptian goddess Tefnut. After Akhenaten's death, his son Tutankhamun restored the ancient traditional polytheism.
Akhenaten 's name meaning was 'Effective for the Aten'. Reigning about 17 years, between 1353 and 1336 BCE, or between 1351 and 1334 BCE, he was the tenth ruler of Dynasty 18. Before the fifth year of his reign, he was known as Amenhotep IV (Ancient Egyptian: jmn-ḥtp, meaning 'Amun is satisfied'). If most people know that Akhenaten pretty much wiped out every single god of his ancestors, few probably know that Akhenaten represented himself as god Shu and his wife Nefertiti as goddess Tefnut.
It looks like all the attention on the changes made by Akhenaten on the Egyptian religion, was directed towards Aten, the Solar disc god; but we've got mislead: what we should have focused ourselves on, was Shu and Tefnut. I understand that egyptologists didn't want to talk about anything else than Aten, because if they would have tried to explain why a pharaoh and his wife were depicting themselves as these two gods, they would probably have to rethink everything about ancient Egyptian religion.
Representing ourselves as god is a pretty strong statement, don't you think? Some could even say it is a huge political statement, but to this day, both the French and English Wikipedia's pages about Akhenaten don't even mention that fact*. The least we can do is talk about it. Additionally to Shu and Tefnut, Akhenaten also liked to represent the Ankh sign, a symbol I just couldn't figure out exactly until I started to work on this heretic king.
Shu, Tefnut and the Ankh symbol are linked together, and I will try to demonstrate in this article that it is Akhenaten and Nefertiti who are giving the Ankh symbols to the Aten solar disc, and not them who are receiving the Ankhs. I'll also try to demonstrate that the meaning of this Ankh symbol isn't 'life' or 'breath of life', but really 'cold air'.
*In the entire English Wikipedia's page on Akhenaten (a document of about 10575 words, according to http://compteur-de-mots.net/), the word 'Shu' appears 2 times, but only in a discussion about Aten's name, and the total amount of times that 'Tefnut' is written in the page about Nefertiti… is zero (copy-paste the text in Word and use the Research function, for example).
A small bust of Akhenaten (r. 1353-1336 BCE), pharaoh of Egypt in the 18th Dynasty. He is wearing the crown of Egypt. Photograph by John Bodsworth, Cairo Museum: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/5445/pharaoh-akhenaten-cairo-museum/
A small bust of Akhenaten (r. 1353-1336 BCE), pharaoh of Egypt in the 18th Dynasty. He is wearing the crown of Egypt. Photograph by John Bodsworth, Cairo Museum: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/5445/pharaoh-akhenaten-cairo-museum/ and bust of Queen Nefertiti from the Ägyptisches Museum Berlin collection, presently in the Neues Museum and photographed by Philip Pikart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefertiti#/media/File:Nofretete_Neues_Museum.jpg
Drawing of Shu by Jeff Dahl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shu_(Egyptian_god)#/media/File:Shu_with_feather.svg
Drawing of Tefnut by A8takashi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefnut#/media/File:Tefnut.png
60.02 Akhenaten represented himself as god Shu and Nefertiti as goddess Tefnut
It is often said that Akhenaten rejected every ancient Egyptian god and that the cult of Aten was monotheist, but it isn't exact: Shu and Tefnut were 'saved'. Not only Shu and Tefnut were pretty muchh the only deities that Akhenaten didn't reject when he decided to reject all the other ancient deities, but surprisingly he decided that he would himself be depicted as god Shu, and his wife Nefertiti as the goddess Tefnut.
"During the “Aten heresy” led by Akhenaten, Shu, and Tefnut remained popular with the apparently monotheistic pharaoh. The pharaoh and his queen (Nefertiti) were depicted as the personification of Shu and Tefnut emphasising their divinity. As the Aten represented the sun disk, the solar aspect of Shu and his link with the pharaoh apparently prevented Shu from being proscribed along with Amun and the other gods." https://ancientegyptonline.co.uk/shu/
"Even on the pharaoh's own stone sarcophagus, images of Nefertiti replaced those of traditional goddesses. Akhenaten, by associating himself with Shu and the Aten, and Nefertiti with Tefnut, had effectively presented himself and his family as living gods." https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1110/the-art-of-the-amarna-period/
Finger Ring depicting King Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti as Shu and Tefnut from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New Kingdom, Amarna Period, ca. 1353–1336 BC. Excerpt from the MET data sheet: "This ring was found at Amarna. The hieroglyphs may be read as an ideogram. The two seated figures are probably Akhenaten (left) and Nefertiti (right) as the deities Shu (air as indicated by the feather he holds) and Tefnut (moisture)". Accession Number: 26.7.767. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544679
"King Akhenaten worshiping Aten". Source: Echnaton (Akhenaten) as Sphinx. From Amarna. Kestner Museum, Hannover. Photographed by Hans Ollermann on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/menesje/2212492438/
60.03 Look how the hands of the sun beams are touching and caressing the lion and everything around: these hands aren't about light but about heat because the lion is basking in the sun
This image showing King Akhenaten in the form of a sphinx is maybe one of the best representations of the real meaning of the sun Aten. It is said that Aten is radiating beams of light, but the position of the sphinx is telling a total different story: he is depicted resting on the ground with the sun beams all around him, back included, and these beams have hands at their ends. Hands are made for touching, so the solar beams are 'touching' the sphinx but also all the scenery around him: they are not light beams but they are instead transmitting the heat radiating from the Solar disc Aten. In other words, the sun beams are 'petting' the sphinx who is basking in the sun. In short, Aten is not represented with beams of light emanating from him: he is radiating heat, and in my opinion it is just here to emphasize Akhenaten's role/performance/demonstration into cold production.
“Sunning or basking, sometimes also known as sunbathing, is a thermoregulatory or comfort behaviour used by humans and animals, especially birds, reptiles, and insects, to help raise their body temperature, reduce the energy needed for temperature maintenance or to provide comfort. They may also have additional functions of ridding animals of ectoparasites, bacteria, or excess moisture.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunning_(behaviour)
Basking lion, by Wayne Hsieh: https://www.flickr.com/photos/whsieh78/48016759788/
60.04 The 'heat which is in Aten' that is revealing that the Aten Sun is indeed all about heat and has nothing to do with light
The fact that the Aten sun is in fact all about heat is actually known by egyptologists themselves, even if the reference is particularly difficult to stumble upon:
"Shu is thus not only "air which is in the sun", but also, according to Akhenaton's religion, "heat which is in Aton". Egyptian Myths And Legend, By Donald Mackenzie (make a research in the book with the words Aten and heat)
“Grade 1 Science Unit 5 : Heat and Light”. Screenshot from a video by Pakistan School Muscat Junior Block: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IDCmfFmww8
Detail showing Akhenaten of the relief of King Akhenaten (Akhenaton) and Queen Nefertiti, in the State Museums at Berlin: "King Akhenaton (left) with his wife, Queen Nefertiti, and three of their daughters under the rays of the sun god Aton, altar relief, mid-14th century BCE". Photographed by Steven Zucker and posted on flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/profzucker/7670413792/in/photostream/
60.05 It is Akhenaten and Nefertiti who are giving the Ankh symbol, and it's meaning is about evaporative cold
Egyptologists are explaining that it is the Aten sun which is giving the Ankh symbol to Akhenaten and Nefertiti, but it can’t be true: if it was, there wouldn’t be hands at the ends of every single sun beam; instead there would be hands only on the beams giving the Ankh symbol. What we’ve just seen is the following:
• Aten is about heat and not light
• Akhenaten and Nefertiti combined together were able to create evaporative cold
So, it is only logical that the Ankh symbol is given by Akhenaten and his wife to the Aten, and that this symbol has nothing to do with Life; instead the Ankh symbol has to be about the cold itself. In short, it is Akhenaten and Nefertiti who are giving the Ankh symbol to the Aten, and what they are giving is evaporative to satisfy the heat of the Aten sun.
60.06 The meaning of Akhenaten's name is 'Effective for the Aten' : it suggests that he was indeed supposed to produce something for the Aten sun
The idea that Akhenaten is depicted giving something to Aten, instead of the opposite, is actually suggested in his name: the meaning of Akhenaten is 'Effective for the Aten'. And that was also true for the first 5 years of his reign when his name was Amenhotep IV, from the ancient Egyptian: jmn-ḥtp, meaning 'Amun is satisfied'.
“Akhenaten also spelled Akhenaton or Echnaton meaning 'Effective for the Aten', was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh reigning c. 1353–1336 or 1351–1334 BC, the tenth ruler of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Before the fifth year of his reign, he was known as Amenhotep IV (Ancient Egyptian: jmn-ḥtp, meaning 'Amun is satisfied', Hellenized as Amenophis IV)”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten
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