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However, Akhenaten appears to have been personally devoted to the worship of Aten, the supreme Creator manifest as the sun-disk in the heavens. In the fifth year of his reign (1348 BC), Akhenaten made a formal break with the ancient traditional religion of Egypt, changing his name from his former throne-name, Amenhotep IV, to his new religious title Akhen-aten, "the glory of the [sun] disk." He also decreased the resources devoted to the worship of Amun, and moved the capital of Egypt from Thebes to his newly established city Akhet-aten (“horizon of the [sun] disk”), which is better known by the modern name Amarna. His attempts to establish the supremacy of Aten included the suppression of the worship of other gods, and the excising of the name Amun from the walls of the great temples.

It makes me think of Moses when he talked to the burning bush!

Maybe somewhere in in there history they too talked to God and used the Sun as symbol to described the encounter?

Ex. 3: 2
2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

Ex. 3: 3
3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.

Moses 1: 17
17 And he also gave me commandments when he called unto me out of the burning bush, saying: Call upon God in the name of mine Only Begotten, and worship me.

GS Moses
Was saved by Pharaoh’s daughter, Ex. 2: 1-10. Fled to Midian, Ex. 2: 11-22. The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a burning bush, Ex. 3: 1-15. Announced plagues to come upon the Egyptians, Ex. 7-11. The Lord instituted the Passover, Ex. 12: 1-30. Led the children of Israel across the Red Sea, Ex. 14: 5-31. The Lord sent manna in the desert, Ex. 16. Struck rock at Horeb and water gushed forth, Ex. 17: 1-7. Aaron and Hur held up his hands so that Joshua prevailed over Amulek, Ex. 17: 8-16. Jethro counseled him, Ex. 18: 13-26. Prepared the people for the Lord’s appearance on mount Sinai, Ex. 19. The Lord revealed the Ten Commandments to him, Ex. 20: 1-17. He and seventy elders saw God, Ex. 24: 9-11. Broke the tables of testimony and destroyed the golden calf, Ex. 32: 19-20. Spoke with God face to face, Ex. 33: 9-11. Appeared when Jesus was transfigured, Matt. 17: 1-13 (Mark 9: 2-13; Luke 9: 28-36). Let us be strong like unto Moses, 1 Ne. 4: 2. Christ is the prophet like unto Moses that the Lord would raise up, 1 Ne. 22: 20-21 (3 Ne. 20: 23; Deut. 18: 15). Led Israel by revelation, D&C 8: 3. Was seen among the noble spirits, D&C 138: 41. Saw God face to face, Moses 1: 2, 31. Was in the similitude of the Only Begotten, Moses 1: 6, 13. Was to write the things revealed to him concerning the Creation, Moses 2: 1.

BD Burning Bush
A bush in which the Lord appeared to Moses when he gave him his commission to bring Israel out of Egypt (Ex. 3: 2-4). Although the bush burned, it was not consumed, and this circumstance caught Moses’ attention. The event was referred to by Jesus in speaking to the Sadducees (Mark 12: 26; Luke 20: 37). Stephen also makes mention of it (Acts 7: 30). In latter-day revelation the experience is verified in Moses 1: 17.

Map: The World of the Old Testament
14. Mount Sinai (Horeb) The Lord spoke to Moses from a burning bush (Ex. 3:1-2). Moses was given the Law and the Ten Commandments (Ex. 19-20). The Lord spoke to Elijah in a still, small voice (1 Kgs. 19:8-12).

Islamic Belief in the Afterlife (72 Virgins?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1112487/posts

The lord of the trumpet, the archangel Israfil (whose name probably derives from the Hebrew “seraphim”), is one of four archangels in Islamic lists, with Jibril (Gabriel), Mikha’il (Michael), and Izra’il. He is of vast size. His feet are said to be under the “seventh earth,” while his head reaches to the pillars of the divine throne. He has four wings—one in the east, one in the west, one with which he covers his body, and a fourth with which he protects himself against the fearsome glory of God. Israfil always holds the trumpet near his mouth, so as to be ready, when God gives the order, to sound the blast that will arouse humankind from the grave. Three times each day and three times every night he looks down into hell and is convulsed by grief. His tears of sadness for the future fate of the damned nearly flood the earth. Some traditions say, on the other hand, that he himself will be roused from slumber at the resurrection, the first to rise on that day. He will stand on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and give the signal that will resurrect the dead.