Evil can incarnate in many forms, but arguably one of the most ferocious is the form of organized religion, or rather the form of monotheism. Since all things in the world have a beginning and an end, monotheism also has a beginning. And the end? Who knows...
Where did that nasty phenomenon begin, in whose head such an idea was initially conceived, or more importantly, who was the one who first transferred the idea from his head to reality, perhaps unaware of what evil it would unleash and blacken humanity? According to many sources, monotheistic (Abrahamic) religions have their roots in ancient Egypt and the trail leads to Pharaoh Amenophis IV (later he himself rebranded himself as Akhenaten - the Holy Spirit of Aten, because Aten = the solar disk). The ancient historians Manetho, Strabo, Tacitus and Lysimachus write about Moses as an Egyptian.
The Bible (Exodus) does not deny that Moses (or Moses, his Egyptian name in Greek) was in Egypt, and this is wrapped up in some story that as a baby of slaves he was adopted by an Egyptian princess(!?). For a baby of a slave to reach the Pharaoh's crown prince at that time...that seems a bit far-fetched, or better said - impossible.
There is also the hymn of Aten, very similar to certain Old Testament writings...Moreover, in what language are the Ten Commandments written at all? In what language did Yahweh send the commandments to Moses? The commandments, in themselves suspiciously similar to those that already existed in the Egyptian Book of the Dead...At that time there was no Hebrew script, and the only script that Moses could read and write in was Egyptian/hieroglyphics. The tales of `Paleo-Hebrew` appeared much later, to say the least.
Why would Yahweh send his message to the `chosen people` in a foreign language and script!?
History, at least according to Uncle Voltaire, is a consensus of accepted stories. One such story goes like this: There was an Egyptian pharaoh named Amenophis IV. He acted strangely, like a transgender person with a creepy oblong head. And despite that, he had an abnormally sexy wife. He was a pharaoh for a reason. He once had a brilliant idea of how to more effectively control his subjects and expand his influence beyond Egypt. And the pharaoh invented the first monotheistic religion... And he renamed himself Akhenaten. And he built a new city dedicated to the new order called Amarna. One of the high priests of that new religion was a guy named Moses. But to the gods and the old priesthood of Amun, this new faith seemed very heretical.
And people gathered, led by General Horemheb, and decided to overthrow the pharaoh. And they overthrew him, with Akhenaten fleeing in an unknown direction, supposedly to Sinai and Lake Timash, from where, for a while, the stories called ``Exodus'' began to emanate. Akhenaten escaped because he escaped but left the throne to his son Tutankhaten, just in case.
Horemheb did not trust the maniac's son too much, he considered him a great traitor to his father and ordered his head to be smashed with a hammer. And so it was. He also ordered all the priests of the new faith to be liquidated and all their temples to be destroyed and the name of Aten to be erased forever. Due to the restoration of the old polytheistic religion, Aten is known as Tutankhamun, after the supreme deity of the old order - Amon-Ra. Horemheb himself sat on the throne and dedicated himself to repairing the consequences of Akhenaten's reign.
And everything would have been fine if among the few who escaped Horemheb's revenge was not one of the high priests of Aten - Moses. Among the broad masses known as Moses. He continued the spread of his mentor's new religion among the members of the poor and miserable desert-nomadic tribes later known under the common denominator - the Jews. Together with Aaron, his brother and sister Miriam. The rest is, as they say, history... Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, various other religions and sects based on Abraham and Moses continue the mission of their founder Akhenaten? Moses as a fugitive priest of Aton (for which there are still some thin historical foundations) is the one who leads the Jews to flee through the desert and gives them the revelation of God (Yahweh) that he received on the fortieth day on Mount Sinai (the commandments), after which the renegade becomes the central figure of the Old Testament.
The connection is broken somewhere between the god Yahweh and the god of the sun disk (Aton) who is similar to many other gods of suns and sun disks before him, with the difference that he is declared one, unique and true.The principle is the same, the god Vulcan among the Jews only replaces what the god of the sun disk in Amarna represented. Connections, influences and plagiarism from many other polytheistic religions cannot be ruled out either. Mithraism, Zoroastrianism and the Sumerian religion (Tammuz, Semiramis, Nimrod) all influenced the new desert religion of the Jews.
Interestingly, one theory about the `fusion` of the two deities unexpectedly comes from Sigmund Freud, who claimed that Moses was killed in a clash between various clans fighting for supremacy and that Yahweh was later added to Aten due to the influence of the clan that prevailed in the clash and which had its own local deity a.k.a. Yahweh. Later, supposedly, the people of Israel repented for the liquidation of Moses, one of the rare literate and wise people among the poor and primitive Jews of that time - and so the feeling of guilt and the expectation of a Savior who, in the name of Moses, would save the Jews from internal and external demons and fears found their way into history and created a bridge over which later the Rissians and the descendants of the cult of the Subjugation (Islam) - would bridge time and space and spread the evil that had emerged in Amarna throughout the world.
Moses, if nothing else, was a brilliant psychologist and manipulator of the masses, and he clearly knew the `secret`, convincing the people in a small group of insignificant desert tribes where he found himself after his escape - that they were somehow special, that the world could not do without them, that they were specially under the protection of the one God Akhenaten.
That they were chosen! That each one of them personally had a contract with Him (the creator of the universe) symbolized by the ancient Egyptian custom of creating a ring by cutting the skin that protects the head of the penis (yes, and that bizarre phenomenon is not originally Islamic or Jewish).
No one else but them and only them. And it worked. The same insignificant tribe endured much persecution under the belief that they were something special, chosen for some higher purpose, law of attraction, autosuggestion, call it whatever you want, it doesn't matter, that group of tribes has come a long way to this day when there is a Jewish state whose government is inclined to Apartheid, accumulation of enormous power on a global scale in the hands of some individuals - members of that religion but also a significant contribution to world science and art. And they started as lost in the desert, hungry, thirsty and desperate...the Jews did it. Romans later tried it and failed.
Because they diluted the idea that only one group could be chosen and tried to convey the `contract` of God throughout the Empire through the idea that it was valid for all humanity, through a compilation of various stories with Yeshua who came to the world to announce that new truth, that new revised `contract`. And if everyone is chosen - then the value of uniqueness is lost and all of this lacks the power of conviction and belief that exists if it is limited to a small, separate group that can perceive itself as 'chosen', in a world in which they would be only an insignificant numerical minority...as befits some who would be...'chosen'...
(Roger Mortis, 126)
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