1465 HATHOR. The goddess Hathor is depicted as the eye of RE in an early text inscribed on the walls of three royal tombs around this time. She is the cow goddess of love and beauty as one aspect of the great goddess Isis. Upon the head of Hathor are the horns of potency and the disk of creation. An important Temple of Hathor/Tentyra is located in a complex at Dendera in Egypt, where in a special chapel the mysteries of Osiris are commemorated. In the temple of this goddess is located a list of the 36 astrological decan gods. As the representative of the planet Venus, her role is to awaken the inner spirit or soul of human. This is achieved as life experience teaches one to truly evaluate the material world and not succumb totally to its pleasures.
1427 AMONHOTEP/AMENOPHIS II as the son of Tuthmosis III and Hatshepsut II Merire, is reputed to have single-handedly killed 7 princes at the battle of Qadesh. (175) Amenophis also built the Temple of Luxor on an earlier temple site. It is here that a statue of Hathor will be rediscovered in the future, indicating his reverence for this goddess. During Amonhotep’s reign, the growing Asiatic influence is evident in the popularity of the cults of the goddesses Astarte and Reshef.
Another proposed date for the Exodus from Egypt led by Moses is around 1433 in the reign of pharaoh Amenophis II. (60) This contradicts another theory of Moses’ Exodus as being in the future time of Ramesses II. However, the debate generally rages between three dates of 1477, 1446, and 1290 BCE. If Moses was indeed raised by Hatshepshut as some suggest, then the earliest date is the most appropriate. The Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt under the leadership of Moses across the desert to Palestine, is the beginning of the Jewish religion but not the beginning of their history, which is traced back through that of the Hebrews. (174)
1420 TUTHMOSIS IV is the son of Amenophis II and the prince who excavated and restored the great Sphinx from the desert sands around this time. Tuthmosis recorded the dream, which had directed him to perform this feat, on a Stele. The Stele was placed between the paws of the Sphinx after it had been restored. Subsequently, Tuthmosis IV will rule as pharaoh for 9 years. He dedicated himself to the veneration of the Memphite gods and worshipped in the temple of Ptah at Memphis. (49. 175) Tuthmosis IV took as his chief wife a princess from the land of Mitanni named Mutemwia. Their son will be born Amenhotep and will marry his ‘sister’ Sitamun. He will then go on to inherit the throne and rule as Pharaoh Amenhotep III.
During Tuthmosis IV’s reign, the symbol of the Aten, which will become such a prominent feature of the future Akhenaton’s reign, is already looked upon as a distinct entity and representative of the solar god. (287. 131)
This time is an alternate date for the Hebrew Joseph, as a slave, to come to Egypt from Canaan. His father Jacob will follow him in later years to escape the famine of Canaan. Joseph works himself up from slavery to attain the position of Vizir under Tuthmosis IV and is known by the Egyptians as Yuya. (131).Yuya’s daughter Tiye will marry a future king of Egypt and give birth to Amenhotep IV who is destined to become the hieratic king Akhenaten.
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