FOURTENTH CENTURY BCE (1399-1300)
14th C During the 14th and 13th centuries BCE, there is trade contact between Mesopotamia and the Mycenaean cultures of Greece who have begun settlements in Syria; between Babylon and Egypt – in fact the ancient world seems to be very active and integrated.
1390 AMENHOTEP III Pharaoh of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt is the son of Thuthmosis IV. Under his reign the Egyptian court reaches a high in its prestige. His second wife Queen Tiy [Tyre or Tiye) will succeed him to the throne. She is a worshipper of the old god of On (Heliopolis) that is the sun god Aten, an ancient symbol of the god Ra. Amenhotep III is believed to be the father of Akhenaton, the heretic king who is to fully establish worship of the Aten. Tiye his mother, is the daughter of the Hebrew Vizier Joseph/Yuya. So here we have a blending of Egyptians and Semites creating a new race. Objects belonging to this king and queen have been found in the Fayum area of Egypt and possibly a palace also found there, therefore linking Akhenaton, through his parents with the Fayum and all its mysteries.
The Aton and Maat.
QUEEN TIY daughter of Yuaa/Yuya of On, a Priest of Min in ancient Egypt, worshipped the sun disk as Aton (also known as Ra or Ra-Horakhti, god of the two horizons). Tyi married Amenhotep III of Thebes, who worshiped the sun god Amon.
Here we have a combination of the single sun god Amon and the dual sun god Ra-Horakhti/Aten. Tiy’s forefathers were Atlanteans, which could mean that the Atlanteans were of the Semitic race. Her father was Yuya alias Joseph from Canaan. According to the author L. Gardiner, when Tiye became pregnant an edict was passed that if a boy it should not live so that the Israelites would not gain the throne of Egypt. After the boy was born he, (Aminadab, b.c1394) was floated downstream to the house of Levi, Tiye’s father’s half-brother, for safe-keeping. Aminadab was educated in the Egyptian eastern delta county by the priests of Ra, and moved to Thebes as a teenager. Aminadab is the Hebrew form of Amenhotep and the child is destined to become Amenhotep IV and then Akhenaten (Moses) the servant of Aten. This move will bring radical reform to Egyptian culture and religion.
Seals commemorating the marriage of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiy were placed quite far away in the foundations of foreign public buildings, such as the temple at Beth Shemesh in Palestine and at a site in Mycenae.
1379 AMENHOTEP IV/AKHENATON is the unacknowledged son of Queen Tiy and Pharaoh Amenhotep III. In order to secure his claim to the throne, as Amenhotep IV, he is married to his half-sister Nefertiti who is the daughter of Amenotep III and Sitamun.
Akhenaton was crowned at Hermonthis (Southern Heliopolis not at Thebes as was usual) where a brother of Queen Tiy was High-Priest of the Sun. The inscription of Akhenaton’s investiture reads:-
“Mighty Bull, Lofty of Plumes, Favourite of the Two Goddesses........High-priest of Ra-Horakhti of the Two Horizons......Shu-which-is-in-the-Disk........Beloved of Amon-Ra.”
Young Akhenaton in Blue Crown [Aldred]
Hermes Trimegistus is said to have attended the installation of Akhenaton as Grand Master of the Order of the Rose Cross later to become the brotherhood of the Rosicrucians.
As an adult, Akhenaton attempts to change the current dominating Theban Egyptian religion back to that of the old sun god Aten or Aton. Aton symbolizes the sun’s disc at On; ON being in turn the symbol of Light, Truth and Joy. This old religion was that of Queen Tiy, reputed mother of Akhenaten. To this end, Akhenaton established his capital in a new city at Amarna, mid-way along the Nile and which he called Akhetaten. The city boundaries were marked with 14 pylons. 14 is the half sum a lunar cycle and close to half a Saturn cycle.
During his reign, Akhenaten built a temple to the Aton in Palestine, possibly at Jerusalem itself, and another far up in the Sudan and which may very well be the prototype of Solomon’s Temple.
Having aroused strong opposition due to closing the old temples and fore bidding worship of the traditional gods, Akhenaten was forced to abdicate to his cousin Smenkhkare. Akhenaten,, taking with him a brass serpent scepter, fled from Egypt with some of the descendants of Jacob and sought safety in the Sinai. His supporters called him Mose, Meses or Mosis, meaning heir/born of Truth = Tuth-mosis) and Ra-moses, fashioned by Ra.
Pharaoh Akhenaten, mother-father of creation
ADAPA is the Priest King of Eridu, Sumer, around the time of Akhenaton. At Tell el-Amarna are tablets containing in Sumerian the legend of Adapa who was created by Ea as the ‘model of man’, hence this ‘myth’ will become associated with the Hebrew ‘first man’ named Adam.
Babylon Boundary pillars (kudurru) are decorated with the symbols of a Triad of gods, Sin, Shamash and Ishtar, represented by crescents and discs and containing a star of four or six points. These gods are the planets that we know as Moon, Sun and Venus.
