MOSES PART I

In 1989 a very interesting archeological discovery was made outside of Cairo by French Archaeologist Alain Zivie in a rock cut tomb at Sakkara. The mummy interred in the tomb was a priest of both the Hebrew and the Aten God. The mummies name was Aper-el/Tuthmose an important Egyptian official. It was very strange however when his DNA came back and indicated that he was a Semite.

Aper-el/Tuthmose  was a Grand Vizier in the court of Pharaoh Akhenaten, and was the chief minister of northern Egypt. His title according to inscriptions at the tomb indicated that his title was servitor of the [God] El. El is the Hebrew name for God. This was a very strong indicator that Aper-el/Tuthmose was a Israelite, this would indeed be very strange however the evidence, at the tomb, identified him as the chief practitioner of the Israelite religion during the reign of Akhenaten.

Even stranger yet were illustrations at the tomb indicating that he was also high priest at the Atenist Temple in Memphis in Northern Egypt. This indicates that there was a shared link between the Hebrew religion and Atenism as indicated by the evidence in the tomb, and also that the High Priest didn't have a conflict in representing both religions.

It would seem that these two religions are either very similar or perhaps one in the same.
During Moses time their came to be for a short time in Egypt another state religion in the 1300's B.C, during the time of the Exodus.

 Interesting the Hebrew faith was the first and only reported religion to be monotheistic and not another until the christen religion came to be one thousand years later. 
But for a short period under the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten their was another state religion and when you step outside of the box and compare the two it is difficult to determine which came first the Hebrew or the Aten religion.

 Many of my readers haven't encountered this faith so lets review it so that we are on the same page.

There is indication that Hebrew slaves were practicing the worship of one God, and this is known as monotheism or a single God religion. By Pharaoh Amonhotep III's reign, the question arises did Hebrew religious ideas influence the Egyptian sect, or was the Aten religion, the long established religion, and after four hundred years of Hebrew slavery in Egypt had influenced Hebrew thought.

This Egyptian sect worshiped a one god deity and denied all other god's, as did the Hebrews. The religion of the Aten was thriving during the 1300's B.C.
By the turn of the century, during the rein of the Pharaoh's son, Pharaoh Akhenaten, who took the Throne in the 1360's B.C., the Aten religion had become so influential, that Pharaoh Akhenaten made it the state religion during his rein.

The practices of the faith were so similar that Egyptologists believe there is a connection between the two religions especially in lieu of the fact that the High Priests tomb at Sakkara indicated that he was the leader of both religions.
 I have come to put a fair amount of credibility in conspiracy theories, primarily because when you follow the money and power trails associated with them they start to make sense.



Governments use religions to control the masses you can see it to this day when politicians invoke the word of God every time they make a speech to the masses. The christen religion since its inception has used guilt, control methods, and fear to control their members ever since it became a force to be reckoned with.

The similarities between these two religions are too similar to be just coincidence. They just refer to their God by titles not names, like Lord. The Egyptian gods were referred to by names like the god Ra. When Egyptians refereed to the God of Aten they were also usually referring to a title normally a glyph or a symbol of the God.
A translation of the God Aten would be the giver of life. In other words Aten is a description of their God not his name.

Thebes was the Ancient capital in southern Egypt. Pharaoh Akhenaten had established a temple to Aten at karnak in Thebes, shortly after the end of his rein, when Egypt abandoned the Aten faith and reverted to the traditional gods of Egypt the temple was torn down.

Over forty thousand of the sculptured blocks that were from the temple were preserved inside two giant gate towers where they were used as fill. Many of these blocks were inscribed with Atenist prayers that were strikingly similar to Hebrew script.

 In the Old Testament Moses is spoken to by God while tending his father in laws heard of sheep at Mount Sinai when God appears in a burning bush.
Moses wasn't sure which God was speaking to him so he asked God to reveal his name and God replies “ I am who I am”. (Exodus 3:14)  He was simply God.

 The Hebrew name for God was El. But was frequently referred to as the “ Lord of Hosts”. There is striking similarity between certain inscribed Aten prayers on the stones, known as the Hymn to Aten and Psalm 104 in the Old Testament.

  These prayers describe how both Gods created the world, plant and animals, how he nurtured his creation, and was responsible for everything that happened on earth. Another similarity is that neither Gods were to be represented by images.

 But both religions made symbols to represent their Gods. When the Hebrews settled in Canaan, they used a symbol that is used till this day in synagogues and homes throughout the world. Of course we are talking about the seven branch candelabrum, the golden menorah, to represent Gods light and presence in the temple.

The Atenist also used a symbol of light it was a glyph: a disc with arms extending downward to end with hands holding the ankh, the symbol for life. It depicted the sun with its rays delivering life giving sunlight to the earth.

 Egyptologist interpreted this as being evidence of sun worship. It is thought however my modern archeologists that the glyph represents sunlight and not the sun itself.
 Sunlight which cannot be seen offered warmth, light and life and this to the Atenists was representative of the omnipresent all knowing, and all providing God
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The Hebrew represented their God with the sacred golden bull, also associated with the sun god RA. This greatly upset Moses which is well depicted in the biblical story of the golden calf.

According to the bible Moses was the prophet who first revealed God's holy laws, and by some accounts the originator of the Hebrew faith, the founder of what was to become the Jewish religion.

According to the Old Testament Moses was born into a family of Israelite slaves. During a purge where the Pharaoh orders the killing of all Israelite babies, Moses mother saves him by placing him in a boat made of bulrushes. Hiding him in the shore side reeds in the Nile River.



The Pharaoh daughter finds him and being sympathetic to the plight of the Israelite s adopts him and raises him as her own. Nobody is aware of the infants true identity, and the Pharaoh accepts him as his grandson.

This would make Moses a Prince of Egypt, heir to the thrown of Egypt. ( Exodus 2:14) states that Moses indeed does become a Egyptian Prince, however there isn't any Egyptian records available to identify Moses during the Rein of Amenhotep III or any time in the history of Egypt.

However there is the thought that Moses may not have been his true name.. The name Moses is the Greek translation taken from the Tanak, that means to draw forth as when the Pharaoh's daughter drew Moses out of the reeds of the Nile River. Mose is an Egyptian word meaning “son”.

 In 1995 the Israeli historian David Ullian, suggests that Mose may have been a title and not a name just like Christ the “anointed one” later became an epithet for Jesus. Perhaps the shortening of a title “son of God”.

In ancient times Kings and prophets of Judea were referred to as “sons of God”. It is possible then that if an individual did lead the Israelite s to freedom, then perhaps he appears in the Egyptian record under a different name.

 Who anywhere in Egyptian history would meet the profile of Moses? I believe that the adopted baby story isn't accurate. I believe it was taken from a Babylonian legend.

In Exodus (2:3) we are told how Moses's mother hides him. There is a Mesopotamian myth concerning King Sargon I of Akkard, dated around B.C. 2330. This King was also floated on a river in a basket of bulrushes like Moses he was found and adopted.

The story of Moses's adoption fails to meet historical scrutiny. The Exodus story says that the Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and he was raised as a prince.

In ancient Egypt the bloodline of the royal family was strictly controlled and manipulated. The Pharaoh's were considered “gods” and their daughters could only conceive children with someone chosen by the Pharaoh—frequently the Pharaoh himself.

Adoption would be completely out of the question! It would have been unheard of for any Pharaoh to allow one of his daughter's to adopt a son.

 If Moses really was a prince of the Egyptian Court he would have been a naturally born Egyptian!

Someone in the court of Amenhotep’s court who is strikingly similar to Moses was his eldest son Prince Tuthmose, a brief outline of his life was interpreted by Egyptologists through inscriptions left at the tomb site.

He was Pharaoh Amenhotep eldest son and heir to the throne. He was Governor of Memphis in northern Egypt before being appointed as commander of the Pharaoh's Chariot Forces and seeing active service against the Ethiopians.

After a successful campaign against the Ethiopians he returned to religious life and was installed as high priest at the Temple of the god Ra in Heliopolis, in northern Egypt.
In the twenty third year of pharaoh Amenhotep rein, he suddenly and for no apparent reason resigned his position and disappeared.

  Two years upon the death of his father Prince Tuthmose younger brother Akhenaten ascended to the throne.

Prince Tuthmose profile matches Moses's in a number of ways, first he commanded the army during an Ethiopian campaign. So did Moses. In Josephus account in the Jewish Antiquities he provides a full chapter on Moses time as a Egyptian Prince.

For some reason because of Moses success during the Ethiopian campaign something happened to cause his exile. Some believe that Prince Tuthmose was the same Tuthmose who was the Palace sculptor.

The sculptor Tuthmose art studio was rediscovered in 1714, at the ancient city of Akhenaten in Amarna, on the eastern shore of the Nile River.

It was surveyed and mapped by Napoleon in 1798, Sir John Gardner Wilkinson excavated it in 1824. An German archeologist, in 1912 discovered the sculpture studio with several busts of the Royal Family, to include Amenhotep III, two of his Wives Nefertiti, Kijia and Pharaoh Ay along with 22 casts of other prominent citizens of Amarna.

 The Pharaoh was jealous of Moses popularity and eventually ordered his arrest, but forewarned, Moses escaped out of the country.

In Exodus we are told that Moses was forced into exile for killing a vicious slave driver however in reality a Egyptian prince could order the execution of a slave driver on the spot if he so desired.

The second similarity between Moses and Prince Tuthmose was for a time Tuthmose was a high priest at the Temple of Ra, in Heliopolis. So was Moses. A forth century B.C. Manuscript was discovered describing a revolt that took place amongst Semite slaves during the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep III.

The revolt was said to have taken place in Avaris, the stone quarries where the Israelite s were forced to work as slaves for many years until they were joined by a priest from Heliopolis, from the Temple of Ra.

The priest had abandoned the gods of Egypt and had been condemned to bondage. Josephus interpreted the manuscript as the priest being Moses.
The manuscript goes on to say that the priest had once been a soldier and had taught the Israelite slaves how to fight during their captivity. When he led them during a rebellion thousands escaped to their homeland.

 A third similarity is that like Moses, Tuthmose may have been driven into exile. The reason for this thought is that his tomb was never used.
In Egypt the tombs were prepared while the person was alive and only after death were the final inscriptions made of the funerary and mummification but this tomb found in the valley of the Kings didn't have the final inscriptions, decorations and was unused.

To build a Royal Tomb it took years to cut out the 100's of square feet of solid rock for the burial chamber and treasury chambers deep under ground. With the absence of any memorials, or obituaries, his sudden disappearance from the Temple of Ra is indicative of some sort of disgrace which either ended in an execution or being exiled from the country.

 During this period in history forty or fifty years would be considered a normal life cycle. We have to treat Biblical stories with caution also in lieu of the fact that frequently biblical history is recorded orally and written hundreds of years after the fact, so its always a good idea to try to compare Biblical stories to historical fact where possible.

 The only difference between these two people would be their age. Tuthmose would have been around thirty-five and Moses around eighty. I actually think Moses was probably around thirty five also.

If the Exodus took place during the rein of Pharaoh Amenhotep III then Prince Tuthmose was the best choice for the historical Moses. They were uniquely similar in several ways. They were both the commander of an army in Ethiopia, they were both priests at the Temple of Ra and both exiled.

 Tuthmose's name was also unique: it means “son of the god Thor” If Tuthmose had abandoned Egypt’s gods and decided to drop the divine Tuth—Toth--from his name, then he would be called Mose the original of Moses.

 He lived in the right time and place, they have identical profiles other than age but why the mystery?

The ancient Israelite s needed to obscure his Egyptian origins and consort an alternate story of Moses’s origins. The Israelite would have had a hard time accepting that their great law giver, who established the covenant with God and protected it in the Ark, was actually an Egyptian Prince.

 If Prince Tuthmose was Moses and was imprisoned with the stone quarry slaves things start making some sense from a historical point of view.  Lets take a closer look at his brother Prince Akenhaten.

Diodorus claims that Egyptian priests and scribes, then keepers of the worlds oldest known records, claimed that the earliest rulers of Egypt were non-humans-immortals “ mortals have been Kings of Egypt for less than 5,000. years.”

Egyptians believed that their Pharaoh’s were descended from the gods and thus were gods themselves! The Egyptian’s believed their sky gods descended in flying boats; they believed their gods descended from the constellation Canis Majoris and the star Sirius B.

They believed their Pharaoh’s were descendants of Osiris from the star system Sirius; this was the belief of Egyptians for over a thousand years.  The Egyptian’s believed in many gods but they believed the Pharaoh’s were superior to the other gods.

 Pharaoh Akhenaten is shown with an elongated cranium. According to Egyptian mythology he was descended from the gods and arrived in 1352BC and was the 10th Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty.

He instituted many religious changes after his fifth year as monarch including banishing worship of multiple gods. He ordered all monuments to other gods removed and the sun god Aten represented by the sun disc, which was to be displayed. 



  According to his writings and poems written about him he was visited by a being descended from the stars.  “This is the way, I am your god, this god was called Aten”. 
 Akhenaten claimed to be a direct descendant from Aten; he regarded himself as divine, a god.  A definition of a god is that you are descended from celestial being.
  During his years as Pharaoh he ordered the building of a new Temple in karnak called Gempaaten, which was dedicated to the sun and he spent the next ten years there.



 Aten was the giver of light in Egyptian mythology and was associated with Ra but was not one and the same.  Ra was the morning sun and Aten the evening sun, and was the creator and giver of life.

He instituted changes in art and sculpture and also in the way he would be depicted in art. Typically the Pharaoh was depicted as being very masculine with large heavy shoulders, narrow waist angular jaw high cheek no double chins.

 Pharaoh Akhenaten was depicted the way he probably actually looked, almost feminine facial features Elongated cranium, high cheek bones; long narrow face and protruding chin,  slender hunched shoulders, a sunken chest and pot belly.

 Quite frankly he looks like an ancient astronaut. He looks Alien he looks strikingly similar of a hybrid of a “Grey” and human.  He had a very mystical look about him a cross of masculine and feminine features.

 His wife Queen Nefertiti and their children were also depicted as having elongated craniums.  They looked different from other humans could they have been of extraterrestrial hybrid origin?

 Pharaoh Akhenaten ruled for 17 years, then the capital became deserted, Temples dedicated to his sons were destroyed, statues dedicated to Pharaoh Akhenaten were defaced. Egyptians returned to their ordinary ways of worshiping many gods.

 Was this change a result of his complicated belief system, or a cover up of his extraterrestrial origins?  Some say he was put to death others say he was banished from his kingdom with a group of his loyal followers.

The question is if Akhenaten was a extraterrestrial hybrid, was Moses/Tuthmose/Apel-El also a extraterrestrial hybrid, did he also have an elongated cranium.

At mount Sinai during the Exodus when Moses was summoned to meet with God on the mountain for forty days he was given the Covenant Code by which they were to abide by and in return for their loyalty they were to be given the land of Canaan ( the promised land).



In Egypt the Israelite were the Pharaohs servants (slaves). At Mount Sinai they became Gods Servants (slaves).

The Israelite celebrated passover for their salvation from Egypt. The Israelite were not required to sacrifice their own sons, but to redeem them!

When the Moses was on Mount Sinai meeting with God,There was thunder, lightening, from clouds of smoke, trembling of the mountain, and sounds to trumpets.

Actually if you wanted to experience this first hand I would like to suggest visiting Cape Canavrell during a rocket launch, it is really a life altering experience, it will make a true believer out of you—in God of course!

Throughout ancient texts this scene is repeated over and over again. When I was in Catholic School they didn't mention any of this, God just showed up without fireworks.

However in reading Bible descriptions and those out of other ancient scripts there is always thunder, lightening smoke and fire.

Moses was warned by God that he would not cross the River Jordan into Canaan. Joshua was to lead the Israelite s into the promised land.

Moses went to Mount Nebro at Pisgah, where he was to have died at the age of 120 years. I will address this in a further post but lets say Moses didn't have a witnessed death, and wasn't buried with the people he led for the last forty years, very strange!
God was to have buried him in a valley in the land of Mohab.