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> I am surprised by Koestler's superficial concept of the chosen people.
You've read the book? One of his points is that the middle east has been invaded
and re-invaded by so many tribes and peoples--including the Vikings!--that the
idea of a "Chosen people", seen simply from a racial or ethnic point of view, is a
bit absurd.
Below is a movie review that fits this thread. It's from Acharya S.
Moses, Theft from Egypt
Argh. Here we go again, as millions of children worldwide are
programmed
with a bunch of hooey, although Dreamwork's "Prince of Egypt" is being
presented as an adult cartoon. No matter, as both children and adults
will be brainwashed into believing that, unlike the "Lion King," the
"Little Mermaid" and other Disney fare, "Prince of Egypt" is a true
story
about God's "chosen people" and their escape under the marvelous Moses
from those evil, nasty Egyptians! Obviously, this is yet more mindless
propaganda designed to empower a certain group of people. Yet, the
brainwashing is profound, as interviewers breathlessly question
producers
about how they felt in creating such an epic, which many might consider
to
border on "blasphemy," and the illustrators themselves giddily admit
that
this cartoon was more difficult than others "because it really
happened."
Horseshit. The Moses story did not "really happen." Like the vast
majority of biblical tales, it is a myth based on older tales, changed
to
revolve around characters of a certain ethnicity or cultural
programming,
if you will. The Moses tale is, in fact, a plagiarism taken from Egypt
and its satellite, Canaan, among others. Moses, then, is not the
"Prince
of Egypt" but a "Theft from Egypt." Since the ancient Egyptians
obviously
cannot address this calumny against them for millennia, I will do it
for
them. The following is an excerpt from my book "The Christ Conspiracy:
The Greatest Story Ever Sold."
Moses, the Exodus, the Ten Commandments
The legend of Moses, rather than being that of a historical Hebrew
character, is found from the Mediterranean to India, with the character
having different names and races, depending on the locale: "Manou" is
the
Indian legislator. "Nemo the lawgiver," who brought down the tablets
from
the Mountain of God, hails from Babylon. "Mises" is found in Syria,
where
he was pulled out of a basket floating in a river. Mises also had
tablets
of stone upon which laws were written and a rod with which he did
miracles, including parting waters and leading his army across the sea.
In addition, "Manes the lawgiver" took the stage in Egypt, and "Minos"
was
the Cretan reformer.
Jacolliot traces the original Moses to the Indian Manou: "This name of
Manou, or Manes . . . is not a substantive, applying to an individual
man;
its Sanscrit signification is the man, par excellence, the legislator.
It
is a title aspired to by all the leaders of men in antiquity."
Like Moses, Krishna was placed by his mother in a reed boat and set
adrift
in a river to be discovered by another woman. The Akkadian Sargon also
was placed in a reed basket and set adrift to save his life. In fact,
"The name Moses is Egyptian and comes from mo, the Egyptian word for
water, and uses, meaning saved from water, in this case, primordial."
Thus, this title Moses could be applied to any of these various heroes
saved from the water.
Walker elaborates on the Moses myth:
"The Moses tale was originally that of an Egyptian hero, Ra-Harakhti,
the
reborn sun god of Canopus, whose life story was copied by biblical
scholars. The same story was told of the sun hero fathered by Apollo
on
the virgin Creusa; of Sargon, king of Akkad in 2242 B.C.; and of the
mythological twin founders of Rome, among many other baby heroes set
adrift in rush baskets. It was a common theme."
Furthermore, Moses's rod is a magical, astrology stick used by a number
of
other mythical characters. Of Moses's miraculous exploits, Walker also
relates:
"Moses's flowering rod, river of blood, and tablets of the law were all
symbols of the ancient Goddess. His miracle of drawing water from a
rock
was first performed by Mother Rhea after she gave birth to Zeus, and by
Atalanta with the help of Artemis. His miracle of drying up the waters
to
travel dry-shod was earlier performed by Isis, or Hathor, on her way to
Byblos."
And Higgins states:
"In Bacchus we evidently have Moses. Herodotus says [Bacchus] was an
Egyptian . . . The Orphic verses relate that he was preserved from the
waters, in a little box or chest, that he was called Misem in
commemoration of the event; that he was instructed in all the secrets
of
the Gods; and that he had a rod, which he changed into a serpent at his
pleasure; that he passed through the Red Sea dry-shod, as Hercules
subsequently did . . . and that when he went to India, he and his army
enjoyed the light of the Sun during the night: moreover, it is said,
that
he touched with his magic rod the waters of the great rivers Orontes
and
Hydaspes; upon which those waters flowed back and left him a free
passage.
It is even said that he arrested the course of the sun and moon. He
wrote
his laws on two tablets of stone. He was anciently represented with
horns
or rays on his head."
It has also been demonstrated that the biblical account of the Exodus
could not have happened in history. Of this implausible story, Mead
says:
". . . Bishop Colenso's . . . mathematical arguments that an army of
600,000 men could not very well have been mobilized in a single night,
that three millions of people with their flocks and herds could not
very
well have drawn water from a single well, and hundreds of other equally
ludicrous inaccuracies of a similar nature, were popular points which
even
the most unlearned could appreciate, and therefore especially roused
the
ire of apologists and conservatives."
The apologists and conservatives, however, have little choice in the
matter, as there is no evidence of the Exodus and wandering in the
desert
being historical:
"But even scholars who believe they really happened admit that there's
no
proof whatsoever that the Exodus took place. No record of this
monumental
event appears in Egyptian chronicles of the time, and Israeli
archaeologists combing the Sinai during intense searches from 1967 to
1982
- years when Israel occupied the peninsula - didn't find a single piece
of
evidence backing the Israelites' supposed 40-year sojourn in the
desert.
"The story involves so many miracles - plagues, the parting of the Red
Sea, manna from heaven, the giving of the Ten Commandments - that some
critics feel the whole story has the flavor of pure myth. A massive
exodus
that led to the drowning of Pharaoh's army, says Father Anthony Axe,
Bible
lecturer at Jerusalem's Ecole Biblique, would have reverberated
politically and economically through the entire region. And considering
that artifacts from as far back as the late Stone Age have turned up in
the Sinai, it is perplexing that no evidence of the Israelites' passage
has been found. William Dever, a University of Arizona archaeologist,
flatly calls Moses a mythical figure. Some scholars even insist the
story
was a political fabrication, invented to unite the disparate tribes
living
in Canaan through a falsified heroic past."
Potter sums up the mythicist argument regarding Moses:
"The reasons for doubting his existence include, among others, (1) the
parallels between the Moses stories and older ones like that of Sargon,
(2) the absence of any Egyptian account of such a great event as the
Pentateuch asserts the Exodus to have been, (3) the attributing to
Moses
of so many laws that are known to have originated much later, (4) the
correlative fact that great codes never suddenly appear full-born but
are
slowly evolved, (5) the difficulties of fitting the slavery, the
Exodus,
and the conquest of Canaan into the known chronology of Egypt and
Palestine, and (6) the extreme probability that some of the twelve
tribes
were never in Egypt at all." . . .
The Exodus is indeed not a historical event but constitutes a motif
found
in other myths. As Pike says, "And when Bacchus and his army had long
marched in burning deserts, they were led by a Lamb or Ram into
beautiful
meadows, and to the Springs that watered the Temple of Jupiter Ammon."
And
Churchward relates, "Traditions of the Exodus are found in various
parts
of the world and amongst people of different states of evolution, and
these traditions can be explained by the Kamite [Egyptian] rendering
only." Indeed, as Massey states, "'Coming out of Egypt' is a Kamite
expression for ascending from the lower to the upper heavens."
Churchward further outlines the real meaning of the Exodus:
"The Exodus or 'Coming out of Egypt' first celebrated by the festival
of
Passover or the transit at the vernal equinox, occurred in the heavens
before it was made historical as the migration of the Jews. The 600,000
men who came up out of Egypt as Hebrew warriors in the Book of Exodus
are
600,000 inhabitants of Israel in the heavens according to Jewish
Kabalah,
and the same scenes, events, and personages that appear as mundane in
the
Pentateuch are celestial in the Book of Enoch." . . .
In addition, the miraculous "parting of the Red Sea" has forever
mystified
the naive and credulous masses and scholars alike, who have put forth
all
sorts of tortured speculation to explain it. The parting and
destruction
of the hosts of Pharaoh at the Red Sea is not recorded by any known
historian, which is understandable, since it is, of course, not
historical
and is found in other cultures, including in Ceylon, out of which the
conquering shepherd kings (Pharaohs) were driven across "Adam's Bridge"
and drowned. This motif is also found in the Hawaiian and Hottentot
versions of the Moses myth, prior to contact with outside cultures.
The
crossing of the Red Sea is astronomical, expressly stated by Josephus
to
have occurred at the autumnal equinox, indicating its origin within the
mythos.
Moreover, the famed Ten Commandments are simply a repetition of the
Babylonian Code of Hammurabi and the Hindu Vedas, among others. As
Churchward says:
"The 'Law of Moses' were the old Egyptian Laws . . . ; this the stele
or
'Code of Hammurabi' conclusively proves. Moses lived 1,000 years after
this stone was engraved."
Walker relates that the "stone tablets of law supposedly given to Moses
were copied from the Canaanite god Baal-Berith, 'God of the Covenant.'
Their Ten Commandments were similar to the commandments of the Buddhist
Decalogue. In the ancient world, laws generally came from a deity on a
mountaintop. Zoroaster received the tablets of law from Ahura Mazda on
a
mountaintop."
Doane sums it up when he says, "Almost all the acts of Moses correspond
to
those of the Sun-gods." However, the Moses story is also reflective of
the stellar cult, once again demonstrating the dual natured "twin"
Horus-Set myth and the battle for supremacy between the day and night
skies, as well as among the solar, stellar and lunar cults. . . .
[end excerpt]
As has been demonstrated, the Moses fable is an ancient mythological
motif
found in numerous cultures. It therefore has nothing to do with any
particular ethnic group, and the character Moses is not the founder of
the
Jewish ideology. Like so many others, this story as presented
represents
racist rubbish and cultural bigotry.
Furthermore, rabbis and other authorities have known the mythological
nature of this and other major biblical tales, yet they say nothing.
Indeed, they go along with it, much to their own benefit. Naturally,
the
person who discovers this ruse and hoax may rightfully become annoyed,
to
say the least, at the deliberate deception, and ask "What's up with
that?"
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