c1362 BCE MOSES/THOTH III - a Hebrew/Israelite, raised by an Egyptian Pharaoh’s daughter who is possibly Hatshepsut [1479 BCE] although others say by the sister of Rameses II. Moses is educated as an Egyptian priest at the temple of RA in ON [Gk Heliopolis]. On the Sinai- peninsula where he lived for forty years as a shepherd, Moses had a vision of a burning bush from which issued the voice of God (YHWH) telling him to take the children of Israel/Jacob (the 12 tribes of Israel) from Egypt into the land of Canaan.
Moses as an Egyptian prince may alternatively have been a pupil of Akhenaten founder of monotheism and when Akhenaton ceased to rule, Moses preserved his teachings and took them out of Egypt for safe keeping. The hypothesis is that the Exodus from Egypt took place at the time of a great natural catastrophe, which is recorded in the Hebrew writings of ‘Exodus’, and in the Egyptian writings of ‘The Lamentations of Ipuwer’. (262)
Moses lead the Hebrews out of Egypt and back to Palestine and there establishing a community based on the knowledge of the past ancient civilizations. It is destined to become the oldest living religion in the Western World, known as Judaism, eventually to be called the Jewish Religion, which also served as a matrix for the future religions of Christianity and Islam. Thus, are all the three great religions founded on ancient Egyptian and Sumerian beliefs.
‘Moses and the Burning Bush’ by Austrian painter and
engraver Ernst Fuchs 1950
On Mount Sinai or Horeb, Moses received ‘The Law’ from God, consisting of the ‘Ten Commandments’ or the ‘Decalogue’, inscribed on stone. The Decalogue was later housed in a chest nominated the ‘Ark’. Such an ‘Ark’ could be a reflection of the ark or barge of the Egyptians and which was used to carry the sun god through the Duat; a barque kept in the Egyptian Holy of Holies.
The longer ‘Law or the Torah’ of ‘five books’ (also called the Pentateuch) is also traditionally attributed to Moses (114] and constitutes part of the Hebrew Bible called by the Christians the ‘Old Testament’. These books are the basic source of Jewish belief stating the revelation of God and his law as given to humanity. The oral Torah was eventually written down as the Mishnah and Talmud. In the coming Middle Ages, systematic coding of the Talmudic Laws will be compiled. (102)
Legend says that Moses received his wisdom, as encoded in the later Medieval Kabala, at the same time he received ‘The Law’ on Mount Sinai. (22) Thus, Moses is known as the traditional founder of the future Kabala, a Medieval metaphysical doctrine, the knowledge of which he learnt from the Egyptians. As Abraham was the father of the Hebrews and came from Ur of Sumer, it is likely that this wisdom knowledge was actually a blend of the more ancient Sumerian and Egyptian wisdom knowledge.
When Moses descended from Mount Sinai he was described as ‘two horned’ like a Ram, probably signifying him as a prophet of the coming Aries Age, which will reign under the sign of the celestial Ram. Unfortunately, Moses’ flock were still worshipping the golden calf (bull of Baal) symbol of the previous 2000 year Taurian Age, thus setting the scene for some conflict.
Baalim or ‘Lords’ of the Semitic people are:- Baal, consort of mother Astarte; Sin moon god of Sinai; Molech or Melek sun god of Tyre; Horus the Egyptian Golden Calf whose image was made by the priest Aaron, brother of Moses; Nehushtan the fiery flying serpent of lightning, made by Moses rod; Chemosh, the Babylonian sun god Shamash, incarnate in Samson (Arabian Shams-On, Egyptian Ra-Harakhti, the sun- another reference to ON - Egypt); and Melchizedek the god of Salem; (13)
The Goddess Asherah is worshiped in Israel from the days of the first settlement in Canaan, the Hebrews having taken over the cult of this great mother goddess from the Canaanites and turned her into the consort of Yaweh. (258) Asherah may be the forerunner of the Shekinah in the future renewed system of the Kabalah.
