"... traditional polytheism almost requires tension and disorder within the pantheon and the cosmos. Polytheism thus accepts two possible locations of evil, so that the existence of evil is not deeply problematic because nothing is truly perfect... By contrast, when a single god dominates the cosmos in a henotheistic system [as in Aten worship]... the question of theodicy arises in a more acute form."
Baines, John. "Society, Morality and Religious Practice". in Shafer, Byron E. (ed).
Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths, and Personal Practice. Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY, 1991.
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