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Another claim was made by Immanuel Velikovsky, who hypothesized an incestuous relationship with his mother, Tiye.

Velikovsky also posited that Akhenaten had elephantiasis, producing enlarged legs.

Based on this, he identified Akhenaten as the history behind the Oedipus myth, Oedipus being Greek for " swollen feet ", and moved the setting from the Greek Thebes to the Egyptian Thebes.

As part of his argument, Velikovsky uses the fact that Akhenaten viciously carried out a campaign to erase the name of his father, which he argues could have developed into Oedipus killing his father.

This point seems to be disproved, however, in that Akhenaten in fact mummified and buried his father in the honorable traditional Egyptian fashion prior to beginning his monotheistic revolution.