Having just returned from Egypt where i assisted a university in taking grad students on a study tour last week, I appreciated Aziz using some expertise based in scholarly history to attempt to bring things together. In my mind I’m calling him DJ Aziz (Daniel Jackson :).
My favorite era of egyptian history is the Amarna revolution period. So much was destoryed of his period, that in the new Grand Cairo Museum there is not much but rubble. And the reason his son’s tomb (king tut) was not robbed is because there is not much mention of him in the records so likely robbers didn’t know to search for his tomb, plus it was hastily done since he died only after like a year or two of rule. Consensus seems to be that he died in a chariot accident but murder isnt off the table given the head trauma of the mummy. Also the neck jewelry of lengthen that is mentioned by yeme might be once of the beautiful chest necklaces od gold that survives in the museum.
It is a fascinating thesis presented in the baal and yam session. Akenhaten attempted to wipe away the presthood and religious scaffolding that existed. Replacing Amun Ra (the hidden one manifest as Ra the sun God in meeting amun and ra that was happening in the middle kingdom). He replaces everything with Aten which is far less of a personal deity and more of just the sun disc itself. and akhenaten was the only arbiter and communicator with aten. this of course ticks of everyone, especially the priests bc they lose power, but also centralizes all power for akhenaten himself. hard to simply place him in a good et or bad et grouping.
Aziz mentioned the Amarna Letters, much of which i have read and you can find for free online. These famously mention the Apirou - outsider mauraders bandits that were pressuring the tribes in the land of canaan. while not directly related to hebrew’s, though some bad scholars try to make the equivalence, there is a connection. like not all apirou were hebrew’s but likely most of the hebrews were likely apirou. possibly.
While we don’t know when the exodus happened or if it happened at all, scholars typically place it earlier that the amarna period based on some biblical dating which i don’t think is reliable or later bc of the meneerptah stele mentioning them in 1208 bce. but the later date doesn’t make a lot of sense to me bc this is the height of new kingdom power. I have some articles i may post about the apirou and amarna. I do think it’s possible, though an extreme scholarly minority opinion that these apirou during the amarna period would have been a small band of escapees during this upheaval period that later formed into a larger group called the hebrew people and then israel by 1208.
tying some of this into FS RV.We have Yam and Ba’al (ra , zeus) going at it under the watch and weakness of the divine council under El according to the ugaritic texts. Could it be that while thy are battling it out, one of the 3 groups that Yeme mentions is smuggled out by EL and given passage across the water (as described in the exodus rv session). This makes more sense that Yam/Akhenauten doing that, but i see the point that aziz is making with the seraphim as guiding them through brutality. Just curious if a follow session could be done on El (perhaps llojim from alien interview who also says the exodus happens during the amarna revolution).
Gotta run, i’ll write more later
The eye of RA was what these ships looked like, an eye, and no, none of them were good ETs, RA demanded worship and enslaved the people. I watched a video of a guy who had a past life regression and had a memory he was the one that had to interact with Ra and was told what to tell the people when he got back and always hated the eye symbol because that to him was Ra coming to give him more orders and he feared him.