(March 13, 2019 at 3:11 pm)Drich Wrote:(March 6, 2019 at 2:33 pm)Brian37 Wrote: The more I learn about Egyptian mythology, and Akhenaten, and knowing the close proximity it had to the "Fertile Crescent" or "Mesopotamia", the more I am convinced that the later polytheism of the Canaanites and thus monotheism of Abraham got their inspiration from the ancient Egyptians.
Akhenaten was the famous Pharaoh who bucked the polytheism and insisted that the kingdom worship only one God, Ra the Sun God. And other themes such as "the book of the dead" and "Madonna and child" and "miracles", such as the healing god Thot spitting in the eye of Horus to cure his blindness, have their origins in Egyptian polytheism long before we see those stories in the OT or bible. Even the ancient Egyptians had their concept of a "trinity" in Ra, Osiris with the savior son god Horus sitting at the right hand of Osiris sitting in judgment of humanity.
Many would argue that there is no direct connection between those mythologies. But it can be quite easy because of the proximity of the regions being so close, that travelers could exchange stories without leaving a record of having done such, thus a trope motif bleed into a newer interpretation and thus a seemingly different religion.
Much the same way the flood in the Epic Of Gilgamesh while not 40 days of rain, still was a story about a hero saving a small group of his family and livestock from a seemingly global catastrophic flood. Just like the Code of Hammurabi mentions the same "Eye for an eye" motif of the OT.
So where is the diode in this circuit? what in your mind keeps the narritive flowing the way you describe it, and not allow the narritive back feed the whole circuit you just set up?
Meaning what one way plot devise are you using that has egypt influence the jews and not the semitic transplants influencing the egyptians? (remember back then they where egyptians by birth right and not jews.)
It would be like saying all white caucasian american have influenced or 'white washed' all other races that have come to america to adopt an american culture... Rather than admitting that american culture was deeply impacted by all the different cultures that intermixes with it. otherwise white america would still be speaking with the same lame european accents their fore fathers used!
What makes your story a egypt influenced the jews only and not the jews influenced the egyptians.. keeping in mind there were no jews till after the 40 years which was after the mass exodus. from a historical stand point it was light skinned egyptians with semitic heritage against native darker skinned egyptians, and if the bible is right the semitic egyptians would have outnumbered the native egyptians 2:1 at one point which would mean their primary beliefs of egypt would be that of the semitic 1/2 of egypt, just like the bible says.
you lost or do you get what I am saying?
The early Hebrews were never slaves under the Egyptians. There is no evidence of a mass exodus by Jews from Egypt.
The fact that the OT mentions such a myth, says to me the early Hebrews, which were merely a splinter sect of the Canaanites were aware of the Egyptian mythology, and creating a underdog story to compete with, and eventually defeat the old Egyptian mythology.
