It should come as no surprise that Akhenaten observed these differences so accurately. He is known as the king who introduced the innovation of portraying the royal family in human situations. Aldred (1991, p. 303; emphasis added) states that "[h]is family life with his chief queen, Nefertiti, and her daughters, has been disclosed with an intimacy and a bumanity that is hardly found again  
[anywhere] in antique art'. Akhenaten's overriding philosophical orientation moves towards the irreducible plane of cosmic philosophy. There is a recognition that since the source of energy is the source of life, all matter is interrelated and that all the various life forms (whether plant, animal or human) which emerge from the one cosmic source share a common origin (De Lubicz, 1985, p. 6) in the Aten. Perhaps for a variety of reasons, however, the king's monotheism led him to commit acts of intolerance and destruction against any other proclamation of a sole God as creator.  
It is nevertheless interesting that in Akhenaten's scientific understanding of the universe, the light of the sun was the source of God, even though he had inherited a tradition which taught that the creation of the world, which included the sun, came from a source antecedent to the sun, Nun. We can thus infer that Akhenaten waged a battle against the inherited theology perhaps for selfish reasons, since he promoted himself as the means through which God is mediated. This status is only partially acknowledged in the position of the per aab (pharaoh), particularly in his role as titular chief priest in specific temple rituals.