Imhotep founded the Great Pyramid; Plato founded the Academy; Zeno founded Stoicism; Akhenaten founded formal monotheism. FOUNDATION STONESAs it were, they laid the foundation stones (material or only metaphorical) of those respective systems. A foundation is an endowment for supporting an institution or a social cause — like Kenyatta, Ford, Nobel and Rockefeller. Metaphorically, a foundation is the basic experience, idea or attitude on which a social belief rests. We now know that the Nilo-Coptic god Aten — the monotheon imposed by Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (self-styled Akhenaten but known to his Israelite slaves as Moses) — was the foundation of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Source: Daily Nation June 05, 2020 20:22 UTC