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THE EXODUS OF THE HEBREWS, MOSES AND PHARAOHS PART 5
Late Middle Kingdom is the Egypt of Moses in 1550 BCE
The Middle Kingdom actually continued until Ahmose 1, as mentioned in previous articles,. The Second Intermediate Period Nomarch dynasties ran concurrently with the Middle Kingdom 12th Dynasty from Amenemhat 2 onwards. To revise the dates for the Middle Kingdom requires taking away the period that conventional Egyptologists allot to the Second Intermediate period, being approx 230 years.
The social and cultural interface between Egypt and Asia had existed for millennia long before the Middle Kingdom, as is evidenced in the inseparable cultural and religious motifs of these neighboring ancient peoples. These were much more than quaint religions and mythical tales though, they were reflections and symbols of realities that existed in the potent unseen world. The continuum and connectedness of these peoples and the events which shaped their histories can be much more richly understood in context with Oahspe's history of the lower heavens that governed these regions.
In Oahspe's Book of Wars against Jehovih is a continuous account of the events of the lower heavens during the cycle of Cpenta-armij going back to 3950 b.c.e. (being 2400 years prior to the dawn of the cycle of Bon which began in 1550 b.c.e.). During this time from about 2850 b.c.e., under the leadership of the false Lord God, Dey'us (which name was later known as Zeus to the Greeks), the false Osiris acquired heavenly dominions over the earthly regions then known as South Arabin'ya (principally Egypt). He made them his own after rebelling from Dey'us around 2150 b.c.e. Osiris maintained an alliance with his two underling sub-Gods, Baal and Ashtaroth who had also been under the leadership of Dey'us and whose regions included Heleste, Western Arabin'ya (the Levant) and Par'si'e (Ancient Persia). Baal and Ashtaroth inspired mortals to war in the regions of Par'si'e and Heleste for hundreds of years, before they broke their alliance with Osiris.
Post Flood Map of the World from Oahspe with Ancient Names
While the northern and eastern regions of Baal and Ashtaroth were continually troubled with war over many centuries, Egypt was relatively free from conflict. This period of stability in Egypt is reflected in historical accounts and archaeological evidence which confirm the long period of relative stability and peace in Egypt and surrounding areas. Even the conflicts and divisions of the last few hundred years of the cycle of Cpenta-armij did not result in the loss of the central power base of Egyptian rule by the Pharaohs.
From about 1850 b.c.e. the dominions of Osiris in the lower heavens began to break up. First Baal and Ashtaroth rebelled against Osiris, followed by the succession of several of his other generals and captains, all of which resulted in the dismemberment of Osiris' heavenly kingdoms. The extent that this affected the land of Egypt itself is reflected in the brief autonomy of the Western Delta nobles; the break-away of Lower Egypt and Nubia (Sudan) region in the south; the misidentified 13th Dynasty in Thebes of Upper Egypt and the so called Hyksos Rule in the Eastern Delta (The whole of the 2nd Intermediate Period is now understood to be a fusion of parallel historic events of the 12th Dynasty of the Middle Kingdom and the recorded dynasties from the 13th to the 17th were no more than Nomarchs who had gained power and inheritance status under Amenemhat 2).
By the end of the cycle of Cpenta-armij the Egyptian oracles were controlled by Baal, and by the time of Nu-ghan's succession to the throne, and, through Nu-ghan, Baal began establishing himself in the place previously occupied by Osiris.
Oahspe, Book of Wars against Jehovih; 25/37.8, 9. 25/54.10, 11, 12.
|| The inhabitants of Arabin'ya and Pars'i'e and Heleste began again to prosper, and became mighty. But after many years, behold, Baal and Ashtaroth rebelled against Osiris, and seceded from Arabin'ya.....
When Baal and Ashtaroth seceded from Osiris and resumed their own kingdoms, behold, in all the divisions of the earth, every God was for himself and his own kingdom. But between Osiris and Baal and Ashtaroth, a triangular war ensured in reference to the boundaries and divisions of the lands of the earth.||
||...Baal marked out for his heavenly kingdom over Heleste and north-western Arabin'ya and Ashtaroth marked out for her heavenly kingdom over Par'si'e and north-eastern Arabin'ya. And the pair no sooner chose their generals and captains, and founded their heavenly thrones....and sent word to Osiris.....
A general dismemberment of these heavenly kingdoms took place. In Osiris' heaven there revolted one Kabbath, who took the name Thammus. He was a general whom tens of thousands of angel officers delighted to serve. He marked out his heavenly place over western Egupt.....
Teos-judas also revolted from Osiris, and established a heavenly kingdom over South Arabin'ya. Besides these there were: Marcus, Delos, Acta, Hebron, De-bora, Julta, Wab, Thais, D'nor, great generals and captains in Osiris' heavenly kingdom, all of whom revolted and began setting up heavenly kingdoms of their own.....||
The
following is a summary of the historical events in Egypt concerning the
nomarchs of the Middle Kingdom during the last three hundred years before 1550
b.c.e., which reflects the lower heaven events in Osiris' kingdoms:
The succession of Kabbath, in the region of Western Egypt is mirrored in the
rise of the nomarchs establishing a minor dynasty in the West Delta regions
around 1730 b.c.e. And the succession of Teos-judas in the region of South
Arabin'ya, is mirrored in Upper Egypt where he established a sub dynasty,
called the 13th dynasty of the supposed 2nd Intermediate Period, but not having
the Nubian state of Kush in their power at the southern extreme of the Egyptian
Empire. Kush having diplomatic relations with the Pharaoh of Egypt, situated in
Lower Egypt, also accords with the fact that the Lower Egyptian rulers were
actually the Pharaohs of the Middle Dynasty who maintained power over the whole
of Egypt. The continued migration of the Asiatics, coming from Baal and
Ashtaroth's territories, included those who took advantage of the opportunities
for advancement within the Egyptian Osirian culture, probably even rising to
nomarch status in the Eastern Delta Regions of Egypt.
The rise of the nomarchs and their inherited ruler-ships is a part of the Middle Kingdom history. But in the transfer of power from Amenemhat 3's family to Ahmose 1, the dynasty lists of the nomarchs have gained a separate identity, creating a false period to Egyptian history -- adding some 250 years to the actual date of the Middle Kingdom, as is evidenced in the following wikipedia entry:
Second Intermediate Period of Egypt
|| The brilliant Egyptian Twelfth Dynasty came to an end around 1800 [sic] BC, and was succeeded by the much weaker Thirteenth. Both ruled from Itjtawy ("Seizer-of-the-Two-Lands") near Memphis and el-Lisht, just south of the apex of the Nile Delta. The Thirteenth Dynasty proved unable to hold onto the long land of Egypt, and the provincial ruling family in Xois, located in the marshes of the western Delta, broke away from the central authority to form the Fourteenth Dynasty. The splintering of the land accelerated after the reign of the Thirteenth Dynasty king Neferhotep 1 [ca 1730 b.c.e.]. After allowing discipline at the southern forts to deteriorate, the government eventually withdrew its garrisons and, not long afterward, the forts were re-occupied by the rising Nubian state of Kush. In the north, parts of Lower Egypt became heavily settled by an immigrant Asiatic population. An independent line of kings created the Fourteenth Dynasty that arose in the western Delta during the later Thirteenth Dynasty [ca 1720 b.c.e.]. According to Manetho, into this unstable mix came invaders from the east called the Hyksos. Their regime, called the Fifteenth Dynasty, replaced the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Dynasties in most of the country. || (retrieved 20 Sept, 07)
If it is so, that the Middle Kingdom did in fact continue to exist until the New Kingdom, with Pharaohs maintaining their position as rulers of Egypt without loss of central power, and those subordinate rulers were named as separate dynasties of a so called intermediate period, then the supposed Upper Egypt Pharaohs of Thebes until Ahmose 1, are no more than the subsidiary southern region of Egypt. This situation is suggested by the manner in which Ahmose 1 is referred to even after ascending the Egyptian Throne:
||.....Ahmose began the re-conquest of the Hyksos starting around the 11th year of his reign. At about this time, Hyksos kingship changed from Apepi to its final king, Khamudi.
Analyzing the events of the conquest prior to the siege of the Hyksos capital of Avaris is extremely difficult. Almost everything known comes from a brief but invaluable military commentary on the back of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, consisting of brief diary entries, one of which reads "Regnal year 11, second month of shomu, Heliopolis was entered. First month of akhet, day 23, this southern prince broke into Tjaru." Generally the regnal year is considered Ahmose's (hence scholars usually mark the 11th year as the beginning of his conquest), but Ahmose himself is referred to in the document as "that southern prince"; a rather disparaging term.....|| (retrieved 20 Sept, 07)
The appearance of a unified Egypt by Ahmose 1 must also be credited to the actions of Amenemhat 3. Since it was Amenemhat 3 who disinherited the nomarchs and thus ended the petty dynasties of the so called 2nd Intermediate Period. Ahmose 1 (Nu-ghan), succeeded the Egyptian throne (because Amenemhat had no son to continue his dynasty, even though Moses had been co-regent for more than 9 years as Amenemhet 4, his Israelitish heritage would not be accepted by the Egyptian nobility. Ahmose came from the next most powerful family of nobility and so was next up for kingship over all of Egypt) and (under the inspiration of Baal), Ahmose set himself up to rule as a God King, falsifying the records in Thebes to depict himself as an heroic unifier and conqueror.
If the southern rulers of the so called 2nd Intermediate Period expressed feelings of oppression and resentment toward the dominant power of Egypt at that time of the Middle Kingdom, then it was not to a foreign power, but to the central Egyptian throne, to which they were subordinate, this throne was influenced by Asiatic culture, as is evidenced in the Middle Kingdom.
The false construct of Egyptologists' 2nd Intermediate period is also missing the location of the Pharaohs. While it is assumed that it is at Thebes, the power of Thebes does not rise until the time of Ahmose 1. The seat of power of the Egyptian Pharaohs in the 12th Dynasty of the Middle Kingdom was Itjtawy in the southern part of the delta regions, in the vicinity of Avaris.
It was from Manetho that the notion of 2nd Intermediate period originated. But Manetho's accounts are not consistent with the various lists of kings and significantly never made it to the list on the temple walls of Seti 1. In the temple list the 2nd Intermediate period does not exist, as though it had not occurred. Also missing are Akhenaton, his son Tutankhamun and Hatshepsut. They were anomalies in the tradition of Egyptian rulers in religion and gender which explains why the memory of them had been "cleansed" from the Egyptian records by successive rulers. But the whole of the 2nd Intermediate Period being missing requires far more explanation!
If the dynasties of the 2nd Intermediate Period were Pharaohs of Egypt, why would they be excluded as legitimate kings? There would be no reason to exclude all of the kings, if they were legitimate and abiding by tradition. Moses' adoptive father, in approving the Migration of the Israelites, may have incurred the wrath of the Egyptian nobility and perhaps his relationship with Moses and the Israelites was eventually "cleansed" from the Egyptian records, and even if his existence had been obliterated (which it hadn't - See Who was Moses), what about those who preceded him, were they excluded?
Reason tells us that they were not excluded from the authentic king list of Seti 1, but exist as the 12th Dynasty of the Middle Kingdom. And Egyptologists do acknowledge the doubtfulness of the authenticity of the 2nd Intermediate period following the end of the 12th Dynasty as it appears in the Turin King list:
The Turin King list may have listed sub-rulers
|| This section [of the Turin King List] corresponds to the period following the end of the 12th Dynasty, i.e. the kings placed in the 13th and 14th Dynasties. Many of the kings listed here may have ruled together over smaller parts of the country or may even be fictive....|| (retrieved 8 Oct, 07)
Conventional Egyptian history marks 1550 b.c.e. as the date when the Asiatic conquerors, the Hyksos, were finally driven out of Egypt, and the Pharaoh to whom this victory was attributed was portrayed as a hero who supposedly reinstated full sovereignty of upper and lower Egypt after more than 100 years of a divided Egypt under the dominant rule of the Hyksos. This popular interpretation is more mythical than factual.
A more comprehensive reading includes Oahspe's account of the history of Moses and the Migration of the Israelites, and archaeological evidence of the Asiatic influence and servitude of the Israelites in the Middle Kingdom, as well as being in accord with the ancient lists of Kings in the temple of Seti 1. Summarized as follows:
The Middle Kingdom some 200 years before its end, was marked by some fragmentation in the false Osiris' dominions in the lower heavens resulting in earthly divisions among mortals evidenced by semi-autonomous subsidiary rulers in the West Delta Regions and the south (Upper Egypt); and an increasing population of Asiatics over a three hundred year period prior, allowed ambitious Asiatics to attain sub-rulerships in the East Delta Regions also. This is evident around the time of Amenemhat 2 nearly 100 years before Amenemhat 3:
|| The nomarchs soon took advantage of this change [introduced by Amenemhat 2] by adapting pretentious titles sometimes imitating those of the royal court. However, Amenemhat did keep a firm hand on these matters and appears to not let these local rulers forget their allegiance to the crown. In return for royal favors, they were expected to help protect the Egyptian borders, to undertake expeditions for the king and to generally act as his deputies. In fact, the nomarchs began to disappear during the time of Senusret III because of a practice that was probably initiated by Amenemhet II. The children of nomarchs were sent to the king for their training, afterwards being sent to diverse posts. This ended up dissipating the power of the local nomarchs.|| (retrieved 8 Oct, 07)
Amenemhat 3 disinherited the nomarchs and dismantled the structures that allowed them to create their own dynasties, thus by the time Ahmose I came to the throne there were no more nomarch dynasties. Such a system of sub-rulers as had arisen was not in contradiction to the philosophy of the Osiris cult, whereby others besides the King who worshiped Osiris could attain status and rank in this world and the next. The change of religion from the Osiris cult to that of Amun-Re as King of the Gods or supreme deity, consolidated Ahmose 1 with God-King status which recognized the Pharaoh as the only mortal invested with power of the supreme deity, also ensuring no sub-divisions of power.
All Oahspe references are from the Standard Edition Oahspe of 2007
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