Origins of Modern Religion: Did Akhenaten's religious reforms constitute the basis of monotheism?

Originally posted by Lynda101
"To my King, my Lord, My God, my Son, The Sun in the Sky," What is strange to someone today is that 'My God' is third in the list, not first. How it was customary to address Akhenaten by a number of titles embodying kingship could well have been radically or politically supernatural part called' My God'.

Very customary. That was the way pharaohs and kings were traditionally addressed (a practice before his time and one that went on through the Roman Empire.) As other letters to other pharaohs show, the flattering titles could be even longer and more elaborate.

Originally posted by Byrd

Originally posted by Lynda101
"To my King, my Lord, My God, my Son, The Sun in the Sky," What is strange to someone today is that 'My God' is third in the list, not first. How it was customary to address Akhenaten by a number of titles embodying kingship could well have been radically or politically supernatural part called' My God'.

Very customary. That was the way pharaohs and kings were traditionally addressed (a practice before his time and one that went on through the Roman Empire.) As other letters to other pharaohs show, the flattering titles could be Heven longer and more elaborate.

Hi Byrd

I think I messed up my para, should have 'Still Learning to Post' sign up. I used the Akhenaten note from Yapahu because we're discussing Akhenaten, but I did realise that they were in the past very, very fond of long titles. (If you look at Mandy's titles today, nothing has changed even for the lower end of the market!)

I do wonder if the title God back in those days had the same connotation as it does today. It seemed to mean a single unit, eg The Sun God, or God of Rivers and Waterways. Today its a title entirely different because it has morphed into a synergistic blend of every God imaginable and has a human face. When it changed, a spot in history needs to be found that instigated said change. Where you had a Pharoah dismissing his Priesthood and then deifying himself to rubber stamp his sole authority over both the land and people and worship you do indeed have a God of everything.

There is controversy about Akhenaten's mummy as it consists only of bones and its not possible to substantiate if it was him or another brother.So we may well not have a mummy for him, which means he could have fled to Egypt. I tend to think this, because there is no way a Pharoah and his army would have chased a bunch of slaves, of whom some archaelogists say there is no evidence of the Exodus of slaves. However a new Pharoah may well have chased Akhenaten simply to get rid of him and placate the Priesthood. We'll probably never know but its a possibility.

The people were not allowed to look at YHWH when Moses introduced him to them. The reason could well be Akhenaten would have been easily recognized. Something was up because the people did not accept YHWH to start with and he had to be forced onto them, they preferred Baal and his symbolic calf.

Consider the link between Akhenaten and the Moses of Hebrew literature.

Some believe that Akhenaten was the Pharoah...
...at the time Moses left Egypt with the descendants of Abraham/Israel...
...(some even think the Hebrew Moses was Akhenaten)...

If this is correct it would make sense then that Akhenaten...
...would have a revolution toward montheism.

Originally posted by troubleshooter
Consider the link between Akhenaten and the Moses of Hebrew literature.

Some believe that Akhenaten was the Pharoah...
...at the time Moses left Egypt with the descendants of Abraham/Israel...
...(some even think the Hebrew Moses was Akhenaten)...

If this is correct it would make sense then that Akhenaten...
...would have a revolution toward montheism.

edit on 19/3/11 by troubleshooter because: (no reason given)

Sigmand Freud believed that Moses WAS Akhenaton. In his book Moses and monotheism he provides alot of information to back his arguement. Read it for yourself here -
www.ebooks-for-all.com... eism/onecat/0.html

reply to post by arollingstone


I have studied the link between the 18th Dynasty in Egypt and the events of the Exodus, for over thirty years

My understanding of the story begins in the reign Amenhotep III (ruler of Thebes).
Amenhotep III makes his son Amenhotep VI (ruler of Heliopolis) his co-regent.
Round about year 6 of Amenhotep VI he changes his name to Akhnaten and leaves his fathers house in Thebes.
Akhnaten builds a new city in the wilderness and names the city after himself Akhn-aten.
Many people follow Akhnaten to the new city, including a young prince called Tutmoses.
Akhnaten makes Tutmoses viceroy of Kush
There is an uprising in Kush and Akhnaten orders Tutmoses to put it down.
Tutmoses leads an army into Kush were he is victorious
Tutmoses returns round about year 12 of Akhnaten to a great celebration.
The name of Tutmoses disappears.
The name of Smenkhare appears.
Smenkhare marries Merytaten, Akhnaten’s eldest daughter
Smenkhare is made Akhnaten’s co-regent
Akhnaten’s dies
Smenkhare rules alone for a short time
Smenkhare and Merytaten disappear’s.
Ankhetkheperure Neferneferuaten (a female king) takes the throne
Exodus from Akhen-aten city begins
Ankhetkheperure Neferneferuaten disappear’s.
Tutankhaten becomes king, changes his name and abandons Akhen-aten city.

reply to post by arollingstone


my understanding how these events link to the Moses story

(Book of Yasher)

Moses was eighteen years old when he fled from Egypt from the presence of Pharaoh.
Tutmoses was eighteen years old when he left the Great house of Amenhotep III in Thebes.
The word "Pharaoh" is a corruption of the word Pr-a'a ("great house")

Moses arrived at the camp of Kikianus, which at that time was besieging Kush.
Tutmoses arrived at new city of Akhnaten; Akhnaten makes Tutmoses viceroy of Kush
There is an uprising in Kush and Akhnaten orders Tutmoses to put it down.

Moses was nine years in the camp of Kikianus king of Cush, all the time that they were besieging Cush
Tutmoses was nine years at new city of Akhnaten; all the time Tutmoses was viceroy of Kush.

Moses marries Adoniah / Atenit the queen
Semenkhkare marries Merytaten the Queen

King Kikianus was seized with a mortal disease and died
King Akhnaten was seized with a mortal disease and died

Moses becomes King
Semenkhkare becomes King

How can Tutmoses be Semenkhkare and therefore be Moses?

Contrary to Ancient Egyptian custom, Semenkhkare is not presented under a coronation name and a birth name in his two cartouches, but under two coronation names. The explanation for this curious fact seems to me clear: both his royal names were composed on the occasion of his coronation. He therefore must have had another name beforehand.
Using common sense, he must have had a birth name, which he changed when becoming Akhenaten’s co-regent, but it would not have been necessary to do so, unless his birth name conflicted with Akhenaten’s religious reforms.
So it is quite easy to see why, Tutmoses changed his name, but why the name Semenkhkare.
A great deal of importance was ascribed to Names in Ancient Egypt.
Names were chosen with care to represent an individual's personality, their devotion to a particular god or location, or to reflect the times in which they lived.
So I started to look at this name Semenkhkare more closely, this is were I found the name of an obscure 13th dynasty pharaoh called Semenkhkare.
What did find out about this 13th dynasty pharaoh?
Well several of smnx-kA-ra Semenkhkare monuments have been found, one being a colossal sitting statue of Tanis (placed primarily at Memphis) and usurped later by another king.
There also was a statue of his found at Elephantine.
This Semenkhkare came from the delta region and served as a Commander Of The Army and General.
He keeps his title, Commander Of The Army even when he became king, which reads as follows
smnx-kA-ra (Semenkhkare) imi-rA-mSaw (Imirameshau) meaning Commander Of The Army ; General.
There is really nothing special about this pharaoh that we know off, he won a few battles in Kush but only ruled for 2 to 3 years.
So why did Akhenaten’s co-regent take his name? This Question has been running through my mind for years now, until I came across a discovery of a stela at the temple of Gebel Zeit in 1984.
The stela revealed king Semenkhkare personal name, which was Nebnwn – Nebnun, meaning (Lord Nun).
Yes, king Semenkhkare was called Lord Nun and through my studies of the Torah, The letter 'nun' was a pictographic representation of Moses.
Did Akhenaten’s co-regent take this Throne name because his life mirrored that of 13th dynasty pharaoh?
Was he a Commander Of The Army; General, campaigning in kush and in some personal way being edified with his personal name Nebnun.
Well I believe it is exactly why he took the name, his life did mirror that of 13th dynasty pharaoh
Tutmoses was Akhenaten’s Viceroy with the title Kings son of Kush. As Commander in The Army, Tutmoses served in kush were he put down a rebellion.
I believe Tutmoses must have had also the personal name Nebnun.
Tutmoses was Smenkhare and therefore was Moses with the personal name of Nebnun.

Let’s look at Reuel and Jethro
The Throne name of Akhenaten - xprw ra wa-n-ra - jethru re ue n re
Interruptions of the Herographics, which was xprw ra wa-n-ra
jethru re ue n re
One scribe Interruption, was shorten to jethru
Another scribe Interruption, was shorten re ue n re and in course changing the god re to el giving us re ue l
Theses as one can see are the names given in bible as Moses father in law.
You can be forgiven for thinking this was just a play on words, but lets see the main thread of these stories
Moses father in law has seven daughters
Moses father in law has in his position the staff of god, which he took from the king.
Moses father in law was ruler and high priest of the land of midian
Moses father in law is called reuel and is also called jethro
Moses father in law reuel has a daughter called Zipporah, Moses' wife
Moses father in law Jethro has a Cu#e daughter, Moses' wife
Moses father in law Reuel and Jethro are the ruler and high priest of the land of midian
Reuel and Jethro are one and the same person
Midian means "Strife; judgment", were moses spent his in voluntary exile
Reuel /Jethro was the ruler and high priest of the land of "Strife; judgment"
He who abandoned idolatry.

Connecting other stories

ARTAPANUS OF ALEXANDRIA (3rd-2nd centuries B.C.)


Artapanus, Eusebius and Bar Hebraeus, who tell this particular version of an exodus.
These versions specifies that there were two co-regents, "khenephres" and "Palmenothes",

Artapanus wrote that Pharaoh Palmanothes was ruling when Moses was born.
His daughter Merris (meaning 'Beloved') adopted a Hebrew child whom she called Moses
Artapanus states that Merris married Pharaoh Khenephres,

(Eusebius, l.c. ix. 27). Merris being childless, she pretended to have given birth to Moses and brought him up as her own child.
Eusebius also said Pharaoh Khenephres was ruler for 16 years

Palmenothes is a Hellenized rendering of the Hieroglyphics for "pn ImnHtp", king Amenhotep.

khenephres is a Hellenized rendering of the Hieroglyphics for 'Nefer- kheperure', Akhnaten's throne name

Artapanus said Moses was called Hermes, because of his interpretation of the Hieroglyphics. But Hermes is Greek, so this means only one thing Hermes was the Egyptian Thoth and that is clear that his name is Thothmoses.

Artapanus states that Prince Moses led a military campaign against the Ethiopians to extend the frontiers of the Egyptian Empire into Upper Nubia.

Before the Exodus Khenephres died from elephantiasis [comp. Ex. R. i. and Targ. Yer. to Ex. ii. 23]—a disease with which he was the first to be afflicted.

The name Akhencheres occurs more than once in Manetho's 18th Dynasty. But According to these writers Akhencheres is the pharaoh of the exodus not khenephres.

Manetho's Epitome

Manetho's Epitome specifically records that a 'king's daughter', Akhencheres , had succeeded her father in the late eighteenth dynasty, this was evidently a reference to Neferneferuaten's feminine prenomen Ankh(et)kheperure and must be an allusion to the fact that Akhenaten was succeeded by one of his sisters and daughter of Amenhotep III

Tacitus has a different version, according to which the Jews were natives of Egypt, and had emigrated during the reign of Isis ("Hist." v. 2-5).



Flavius Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews (Ant. II.x.2) around 91 A.D

Moses is sent by his adopted mother Thermutis to Pharaoh to receive the honour of generalship over the army being sent against Ethiopia.
Moses marries the daughter of the Ethiopian king

Chronicles of Jerahmeel
"Thermutis was the name of the princess who saw Moses in the water-cradle and conceived a love for him on account of his striking beauty. The child, however, refused to suckle from any other breast but that of his mother." "Moses excelled all by his tall stature and beauty of countenance as well as by his quickness of apprehension." "Thermutis, being without child, brought him up as her own son, and one day when she presented him to her father as her own child, and heir to the throne—a gift she had received from the river-god

BOOK OF YASHER

Moses was eighteen years old when he left Egypt
Moses arrived at the camp of Kikianus, which at that time was besieging Kush.
Moses was nine years in the camp of Kikianus king of Cush, all the time that they were besieging Cush
Moses stature was like a noble lion, his face was like the sun, and his strength was like that of a lion, and he was counsellor to the king.

At the end of nine years, Kikianus was seized with a mortal disease and died.
Moses was made king of kush and was married to Adoniah the queen


(THE CLUES)

The Princess had received Moses from the river-god = Nun or Hapi
Identify Moses with Tot-Hermes
King Palmenothes is rendering of Pharaoh Amenhotep
King Khenephres is rendering of Pharaoh Akhnaten
King Kikianus of Kush
Moses was Nine years in the camp of Kikianus
Pharaoh Khenephres died from elephantiasis
King Kikianus was seized with a mortal disease and died
Moses marries the daughter of the king
Moses married Adoniah the queen
Moses was made king
Akhencheres is the pharaoh of the exodus
Akhencheres is a female pharaoh
Jews emigrated during the reign of Isis
Female pharaoh Ankhet-kheperure Neferneferuaten used epithet used for the goddess Isis
Akhencheres is rendering of Pharaoh Ankhet-kheperure
Prince Moses led a military campaign against the Ethiopians
Moses given an Army to invade Ethiopia / Kush
Merris (meaning 'Beloved') adopted Moses
Merris married Pharaoh Khenephres
Merris being childless i.e (no sons)

Another look at the Book of Jasher

Chapter 73
(1) In the fifty-fifth year of the reign of Pharaoh king of Egypt, that is in the hundred and fifty-seventh year of the Israelites going down into Egypt, reigned Moses in Cush.

(Here we have a memory that the great house of Amenhotep ruled for fifty-five years, Amenhotep III 38 years and Amenhotep VI/ Akhnaton for 17 years.
At this time Moses was the viceroy of Kush and was made co-regent of the empire. )

(2) Moses was twenty-seven years old when he began to reign over Cush, and forty years did he reign.

(Here again we have distorted memory, which is giving Moses actual age, of twenty-seven years old, the fact we know from other source material that Moses was 17 years old when he went to Kush.
This reveals that Moses was viceroy of Kush for about 10 years at the end of Akhnaton for 17 years.)

(3) And the Lord granted Moses favor and grace in the eyes of all the children of Cush, and the children of Cush loved him exceedingly, so Moses was favored by the Lord and by men.

( Here we have the Lord, this is not the LORD GOD YAH OR ELOHIM. This refers to the Lord Akhnaton and the fact he had made Moses his co-regent.)

(4,5,6) And in the seventh day of his reign, all the children of Cush assembled and came before Moses and bowed down to him to the ground. And all the children spoke together in the presence of the king, saying, Give us counsel that we may see what is to be done to this city. For it is now nine years that we have been besieging round about the city, and have not seen our children and our wives.

(This event the bible writers didn’t really know what was going on, why would the King of Kush be besieging his own city.
But it gives us a clue.
The people spoke to Moses, for it was now nine years they had been at the city. This tells us only one thing, which bible writers didn’t know; The City was Akhn-aton modern day El-Amarna. The people that build it and was made to stay and serve at Akhnaton’s new capital, wanted to leave and go home.)

The following verses contain conversations between Moses and the people that I very much think was made up by the bible writers, generally guessing what was said.
The only clear clue here is that they name the now died King, who is called Kikianus. Obviously referring to khnaton
ie Akhnaton.

(31) And they placed the royal crown upon his head, and they gave him for a wife Adoniah the Cu#e queen, wife of Kikianus.

(Here we have Moses being crowned and also being married to Adoniah queen, wife of Kikianus.
Another writers have Moses marrying the kings daughter.
The fact is she was both, Akhnaton’s daughter and great royal wife. Even the name Adoniah confirms that,
Which is a rendering of Aten, i.e.Mertyaten.)

(These next verses contain battles Moses fought,)

This is the bible writers knowing that Moses lead an army and fought against rebellion in Kush, but not knowing the time frame.
The fact is Moses did lead an army and fought against rebellion in Kush, but this was before Akhnaton had died, when Moses was still the viceroy of Kush.
In year 12 Akhnaton order his viceroy of Kush to put down a rebellion in Kush.

Chapter 76

(3 to 7) And in the fortieth year of the reign of Moses over Cush, Moses was sitting on the royal throne whilst Adoniah the queen was before him, and all the nobles were sitting around him.
And Adoniah the queen said before the king and the princes, What is this thing which you, the children of Cush, have done for this long time? Surely you know that for forty years that this man has reigned over Cush he has not approached me, nor has he served the gods of the children of Cush. Now therefore hear, O ye children of Cush, and let this man no more reign over you as he is not of our flesh. Behold Menacrus my son is grown up, let him reign over you, for it is better for you to serve the son of your lord, than to serve a stranger, slave of the king of Egypt.

(Here we have a clue to how Moses reign came to an end. Adoniah the queen, through the help of the nobles, generally told Moses to stand down. We are also informed that she had a son, who was the son of the lord i.e. Kikianus
Is this Adoniah the same Queen Adoniah that Moses married, well I believe she is not, as I mentioned before Adoniah is a rendering of Aten. This Queen Adoniah had a son to Kikianus i.e. Akhnaton, we know through Dna Akhnaton had a son, king tutakamun to a sister wife.
Known nefertiti was not his sister and Mertyaten was his daughter, this leaves the mysterious female king/Queen Neferneferaten who had a short reign before tutakamun.
So this Queen Adoniah is king/Queen Neferneferaten who remove Moses.)

Now through other writers Moses didn’t leave empty handed or alone, they say he left with a massive amount of treasure and gold.

In the next verses in the book of Jasher as in other bible accounts we see Moses going to Midian , where he meets his future wife and her father Reuel.

This part of the story I believe comes from a different source than the account of Moses in Kush.
The fact that outside and some sources in the bible accounts says Reuel was the father of Moses Ku#e wife.
Reveals that reuel story is re-telling of the same event as in the story of Kush, but was mistaken as a later event.
Lets look at this closer.

(14 to 18) And the seven daughters of Reuel the Midianite went out to feed their father's flock. And they came to the well and drew water to water their father's flock. So the shepherds of Midian came and drove them away, and Moses rose up and helped them and watered the flock. And they came home to their father Reuel, and told him what Moses did for them. And they said, An Egyptian man has delivered us from the hands of the shepherds, he drew up water for us and watered the flock.


(The seven daughters of Reuel
The seven daughters of Akhnaton)

The following verses contain conversations between Moses and Reuel, as before, I very much think was made up by the bible writers, generally guessing what was said between them.

(22 and 23) And when Reuel had heard the words of Moses, Reuel said within himself, I will put this man into the prison house, whereby I shall conciliate the children of Cush, for he has fled from them.
And they took and put him into the prison house, and Moses was in prison ten years, and whilst Moses was in the prison house, Zipporah the daughter of Reuel took pity over him, and supported him with bread and water all the time.

(Unlike other bible accounts Reuel puts Moses in prison for ten years.
Again this is the fact that Moses and the people spent 9 to10 years at Akhnaton’s new capital, modern day El-Amarna.)

The next verses talks about a plague of leprosy that the king of Egypt was afflicted with, owing to the cruel treatment of the children of Israel by the king.
This is referring to Akhnaton becoming ill; we also know that there was a plague at Akhnaton’s new capital, which probably caused his death.

(35) And at the end of ten years the Lord continued to afflict Pharaoh with destructive plagues.

(Here once again referring to the ten years at Akhnaton’s new capital.)

The next verses talks about the Pharaoh and his family, but once again not knowing the time frame and even the king,
We get jumbled up account of Pharaoh and his family.

(44) And the king's horse fell into the low plain whilst the king was riding upon it, and when he fell the chariot turned over the king's face and the horse lay upon the king, and the king cried out, for his flesh was very sore.

(47) And they placed him in his bed, and the king knew that his end was come to die, so Aparanith the queen his wife came and cried before the king, and the king wept a great weeping with her.
(50) And the king had three sons and two daughters which Aparanith the queen his wife had borne to him, besides the king's children of concubines. And these were their names, the firstborn Othri, the second Adikam, and the third Morion, and their sisters, the name of the elder Bathia and of the other Acuzi. And Othri the first born of the king was an idiot, precipitate and hurried in his words. But Adikam was a cunning and wise man and knowing in all the wisdom of Egypt, but of unseemly aspect, thick in flesh, and very short in stature; his height was one cubit.

(The only thing one can make out of this, that it could some how be a memory of sorts about Amenhotep III.
His eldest daughter Bathia and the second son Adikam who became king. Of course Bathia being Sitamun and Adikam being
Akhnaton.)

LOOK AT THE MOSES BASKET STORY
Associated with throne-inheritance rites, a child went through a physical as well as a spiritual birth.

In this Horus-myth an important feature was that Horus' mother, Isis, appeared together with her twin sister Nephthys, the goddess, so that the god-child Horus was conceived by Isis and "born", in a figurative sense, by Nephthys. Therefore, the delivery was painless - but the ambiguity was understood and reported so that in reality Isis conceived him, and yet another sister of Isis, Hathor (the goddess of the sky), nursed him.

Likewise the rabbis describe the little boat of Moses as "the little ark" on the Nile). From this ark, the king-god was then to be revived, with the help of the goddess Isis, in the image of his and Isis' newborn son Horus, a god-child that was to become the new king. In other words - again, exactly like Moses.

where it will appear that Moses acted as the divinely born Horus-child, the new king, who arrived on the Nile in Osiris/Horus' ark.

This "container" was no ordinary rush basket - the Hebrew Bible explicitly states that it was a boat woven in papyrus, and was "an ark", i.e. shaped as a rectangular chest or coffin with a lid, in Hebrew theba, an equivalent of the previously mentioned Egyptian word debat (debet): 'ark', ‘chest',
In addition, Moses was supplied with a nurse, who correspondingly filled the role of the goddess Nephthys. Royal nurses were recruited from families of great reputation - as one example, the later pharaoh Tuthmosis III made his nurse's daughter, Sat-iah, his chief wife long before he married an Egyptian daughter of the king. It is also a well documented situation that in the era of the kings of the 18th dynasty
The fact that the Rabbinical Writings and also several ancient writers mention the young Moses as already having great abilities as a general and a military tactician in the service of the then ruling pharaoh.

Several Rabbinical Writings also mention that this wet-nurse and (surrogate) mother "delivered without pain". This is in total correspondence with her role in the mystery play as the goddess Nephthys who was also nurse, reserve mother, and "delivered without pain" since she is not proclaimed as the biological mother of the (Horus) child.

Exactly as in the original story "a sister" was particularly mentioned in connection with the breastfeeding. From the story in the Bible it appears that similarly Moses' so-called sister, who was waiting in the bulrushes, arranged for the baby's mother to act as wet-nurse - again in similarity with the Horus-myth, where the mother (Isis) of the Horus-child arranged for a (her) sister (Nephthys), who was waiting in the bulrushes, to act as wet nurse. This similar relationship supports the assumption that there exists a connection to the later text of the Hebrew Bible, in which the sister is not at all mentioned as a little girl, but referred to by the word "the young woman". These relationships can be documented as follows:

That a mother with royal connections, as in this case Pharaoh's Daughter, thus "taking over" her child, is a known ritual: - "adoption of pharaoh"

The pharaonic child on the Nile is delivered by the god: - this is directly to be read in the inscriptions about Egyptian kings

And according to the Bible and the Rabbinical Writings, the woman who nursed Moses already had two children.

EVIDENCE THAT HAS BEEN OVERLOOKED
The Discovered tomb (TT226), which is thought to belong to a person called Hekareshu, was a royal scribe and Overseer of the royal nurses from the time of Amenhotep III. Inside the tomb was inscription, a title of the owner even though very damaged said, 'Overseer of the Upbringing of the King's Sons', there also was a visible painting of Hekareshu, seated on a chair, which shows on his lap, four sons.
This evidence alone shows that Amenhotep III then had four sons not just two as we are always told by Egyptologists.

Next a discovery of a relief in a temple at Amarna shows Nefertiti smiting a female with a mace under the rays of the Aten. This relief is unprecedented and very unusual, as to shows an execution by Egyptian queen.

A close inspection shows the female victim had an Egyptian side lock; infact the victim looks very much like an Egyptian princess. It also appears that the victim was kneeling when hit with a first blow to the left side of her face, which it is clear from the relief was between the left eye and the mouth.
The question we have to ask, who was this Egyptian princess?
The recent 2010 Dna tests of the royal mummies, gives us a clear answer.
The mummy in question was discovered in the ancient Egyptian tomb KV35 by archeologist Victor Loret in 1898. The body was given the designation KV35YL ("YL" for "Younger Lady") and currently resides in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
A recent 2010 examination of the KV35YL conclueded that KV35YL body was about 25 to 35 years old at the time of death. It also determined that a large wound on the left side of the mummy's mouth and cheek, which also destroyed part of the jaw, had happened prior to death and that the injury had been lethal. This matches the Amarna relief exactly. But is KV35YL mummy a princess as the relief indicates. The DNA tests taken in 2010 have shown conclusively that the KV35YL mummy was a princess and was the daughter of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye. It also determined that she was the mother of Tutankhamun, by her brother, a mummy found in KV55.
KV35YL – the Younger Lady

Originally posted by kallisti36
reply to post by arollingstone

 

It could also be possible that Akhenaten was influenced by ancient Jews. Abraham is reported to have interacted with an unnamed Pharaoh, so is Joseph. In fact the Jews lived peacefully among the Egyptians before they were enslaved by "a Pharaoh that did not know Joseph". Perhaps the Pharaoh that knew Joseph or Abraham, adopted their monotheism.

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I just quoted you again, for everyone to see as this is the biggest evidence out there for this topic.

Originally posted by TattooedWarrior

Originally posted by troubleshooter
Consider the link between Akhenaten and the Moses of Hebrew literature.

Some believe that Akhenaten was the Pharoah...
...at the time Moses left Egypt with the descendants of Abraham/Israel...
...(some even think the Hebrew Moses was Akhenaten)...

If this is correct it would make sense then that Akhenaten...
...would have a revolution toward montheism.

edit on 19/3/11 by troubleshooter because: (no reason given)

Sigmand Freud believed that Moses WAS Akhenaton. In his book Moses and monotheism he provides alot of information to back his arguement. Read it for yourself here -
www.ebooks-for-all.com... eism/onecat/0.html

Thank you I will follow that up.