If we think that the tale of the Exodus is a literary product generated by the sum of different traditions and recall and that the Tanakh we know had written in Greek in Hellenic Egypt ... we cannot exclude interpolations from Egyptian history [Manetho knew about the Amarna Period ... so it wasn't totally erased from the archives of the Houses of Life].
Well I don't think his ba was deliberately trapped in his tomb, and there are spells on his coffins, mask and shrines, but they are only part of the map and instructions. What we see on the walls of his tomb is extremely skimpy. However, we cannot know what they thought the bare minimum should be. I doubt it was necessary to have the full instructions we see in KV35 and 43, but KV62 seems to have nothing "workable" beyond the opening of the mouth ceremony and the dead king as Osiris. It's a bit like being told to get from Paris to Berlin using a map that is a blank sheet of paper except for the two cities to be marked, but no roads or any other information.
For me, to continue the wild thoughts:
Joseph is set in the early Hyksos period. Maybe he was an early leader of invaders. Peacefully? Well, apologetics might be involved. Who knows? But the Hyksos, in a sense, enslaved the native Egyptians.
Moses at the end of the Hyksos period. A bit of reversals going on. Or opposite perspective. Ahmose forces the Hyksos Exodus. He frees his people from the hated foreigner. Moses, however, rescues his chosen people from their Egyptian slavery.
David sounds like a military man in the vein of Thutmose III, carving out a slice of empire in the Levant between the coast and the Euphrates. He is also the first king of the Hebrew Holy City. And a writer of hymns. Bit like Akhetaten and his Holy City and his hymn to the Aten. Do David (Didiah?) is a composite figure. And maybe a local warlord thrown in. So there is some historicity involved. He had carved out some sort of kingdom, but not the extensive one the Bible King had - that belonged to the Egyptians.
Jedidiah-Solomon, the wise king with his enormous harim and proverbs. Not unlike that wise king Amenophis III and his enormous harim and his proverbs. Again, a composite figure. King Jedidiah, a local king of Jerusalem, no more powerful than his son, Rehoboam, it his career sexed-up by stories of a greater King in Egypt.
I beat a horse, I think. But the parallels are spooky. I have read both Rohl and Osmond, along with others, so my own speculations on top of theirs (and not everything they say do I take as being as certain as they think they are!), may owe quite a bit to their powers of ‘persuasion’, of course.
Joseph is set in the early Hyksos period. Maybe he was an early leader of invaders. Peacefully? Well, apologetics might be involved. Who knows? But the Hyksos, in a sense, enslaved the native Egyptians.
Moses at the end of the Hyksos period. A bit of reversals going on. Or opposite perspective. Ahmose forces the Hyksos Exodus. He frees his people from the hated foreigner. Moses, however, rescues his chosen people from their Egyptian slavery.
David sounds like a military man in the vein of Thutmose III, carving out a slice of empire in the Levant between the coast and the Euphrates. He is also the first king of the Hebrew Holy City. And a writer of hymns. Bit like Akhetaten and his Holy City and his hymn to the Aten. Do David (Didiah?) is a composite figure. And maybe a local warlord thrown in. So there is some historicity involved. He had carved out some sort of kingdom, but not the extensive one the Bible King had - that belonged to the Egyptians.
Jedidiah-Solomon, the wise king with his enormous harim and proverbs. Not unlike that wise king Amenophis III and his enormous harim and his proverbs. Again, a composite figure. King Jedidiah, a local king of Jerusalem, no more powerful than his son, Rehoboam, it his career sexed-up by stories of a greater King in Egypt.
I beat a horse, I think. But the parallels are spooky. I have read both Rohl and Osmond, along with others, so my own speculations on top of theirs (and not everything they say do I take as being as certain as they think they are!), may owe quite a bit to their powers of ‘persuasion’, of course.
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Just read the article on Osiris.net regards tomb 25-Ay at Amarna. Fascinating stuff. Many things struck me, but most of all Ay’s mention of Akhenaten being his ‘teacher’. Reminds me of the disciples calling Jesus their teacher. Ay is deeply in the Aten mindset as I see it. And I never thought of Akhenaten as a ‘teacher’. Wow! (Incidentally, Ay strove to be a good listener and kept his mouth shut. What a devoted devotee he must have been, at least, early on!]
I am now off to see what his tomb in the VoK can tell me about his changing perspectives!
Edit: back from reading about KV23 on Osirisnet. Ay sure put Atenism behind him, no mention at all! The devotee ‘saw the light’ and returned to older traditions. It seems obvious.
Lots of interesting things to see, two things stand out immediately for me.
1. The desecration of depictions of Tey is more thorough than that of Ay!!!
2. The groin area of depictions of Ay have been chiselled out. Which reminded me straight away of KV55’s missing penis (citing Martha Bell). Surely removing a man’s man-bits was saying something very important! Certainly no compliment. So Horemheb (presuming it is him) disrespects Ay’s memory and manhood, just like Ay (presuming it was him) disrespected KV55’s memory and manhood. Ay, as you guys know I think, did not care for Akhenaten, but he was once a devotee. Paatenemheb-Horemheb too, was a devotee at one stage! Both men were reformed smokers (Atenists) with a vengeance IMO.
Time now come to check out Osirisnet for Paatenheb’s tomb and Horemheb’s 2 tombs....
Further edit: forgot to say: could Tey be the queen of the Hittite Prince letter?
I am now off to see what his tomb in the VoK can tell me about his changing perspectives!
Edit: back from reading about KV23 on Osirisnet. Ay sure put Atenism behind him, no mention at all! The devotee ‘saw the light’ and returned to older traditions. It seems obvious.
Lots of interesting things to see, two things stand out immediately for me.
1. The desecration of depictions of Tey is more thorough than that of Ay!!!
2. The groin area of depictions of Ay have been chiselled out. Which reminded me straight away of KV55’s missing penis (citing Martha Bell). Surely removing a man’s man-bits was saying something very important! Certainly no compliment. So Horemheb (presuming it is him) disrespects Ay’s memory and manhood, just like Ay (presuming it was him) disrespected KV55’s memory and manhood. Ay, as you guys know I think, did not care for Akhenaten, but he was once a devotee. Paatenemheb-Horemheb too, was a devotee at one stage! Both men were reformed smokers (Atenists) with a vengeance IMO.
Time now come to check out Osirisnet for Paatenheb’s tomb and Horemheb’s 2 tombs....
Further edit: forgot to say: could Tey be the queen of the Hittite Prince letter?
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