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The pharaoh is a figure the site comes back to over and over, often without a name. He is the king who takes Sarai, the king who will not let the Israelites go, the king in the empty sarcophagus. Behind those stories sits an older question: were the pharaohs simply kings, or were they seen, and maybe meant, as something more?
Below I follow the pharaohs from the first king to the Exodus, and then the readings that make them heirs of Atlantis.
Sun kings and living gods
Oahspe gives the title a meaning of its own:
The word Pharaoh is Phoenician for Sun King.
Oahspe, Book of the Arc of Bon
See Book of the Arc of Bon. The videos describe the same divine kingship:
Pharaohs of the Old Kingdom weren't just seen as Leaders they were considered living Gods
LifesBiggestQuestions, Ancient Texts from Pyramids to Sinai, at 1:28
The Pharaoh is Horus, who Raises his father Osiris and gives him Life and gives life to the Land of Egypt.
Path of the Sun God, Ra from chaos to the night boat, at 39:17
See A Tour of Ancient Religious Texts and A narration of Ra and the Osiris rite. Lewis Spence takes it further on The Occult Sciences in Atlantis: in the earliest Egyptian dynasties the Mysteries belonged to the royal house, and only the divine pharaoh could travel in spirit to the land of the gods.
The first kings
The line starts with Menes. See Account of Menes, Menes – Adam and Athothis, king of the first dynasty. Before him came the kings on Pre-dynastic Rulers, and the long lists of Manetho’s King Lists and Egyptian Kings of the Siriadic Land. On Ancient Egypt – 11,800 BCE I set the long history of Herodotus against the modern start around 3100 BCE.
James Churchward, on The Children of Mu, cites a papyrus that has Pharaoh Sent of the Second Dynasty send an expedition west to look for traces of Atlantis, the land the first Egyptians had come from.
Cheops and the Great Pyramid
The pharaoh Herodotus remembers most harshly is Cheops, the Greek name for Khufu. On Account of Cheops I follow Books 2.124 to 2.127 of the Histories. The picture is of a tyrant:
Cheops brought the country into all sorts of misery. He closed all the temples, and, being desirous of knowing how many loaves the people consumed, ordered every Egyptian to bring him a certain number daily, from which the amount was ascertained.
Herodotus, Histories 2.124
The whole country is put to work on his pyramid:
He compelled his subjects to labor for him, some to drag stones from the quarries in the Arabian mountain to the Nile, and others to receive them and transport them to the mountain of Libya.
Herodotus, Histories 2.124
According to Herodotus the pyramid took twenty years, and when the treasury ran dry Cheops even sent his daughter to a brothel to pay for it. His brother Chephren followed him on the throne and kept to the same practices.
How the stones went up is still argued. On Ramps and elevators inside the Khufu pyramid the inclined shafts are read as traces of ramps and lifts:
Its main feature and advantage is the fact that all building materials are not raised from below, but are supplied from above.
Great Pyramids Equation, A ramp hypothesis for Khufu, at 18:32
Whether Khufu built it at all is another question. On The Great Pyramid of Thoth, not Khufu I set the radiocarbon dates of the mortar, between 2620 and 2484 BC, against the Emerald Tablets, where Thoth says he built the Great Pyramid himself.
Pyramids without bodies
The pyramids are called the tombs of the pharaohs. On Sarcophagi of Pharaohs I start with the granite box in the pyramid of Djoser. Graham Hancock points to the gap in the evidence:
no body of any Pharaoh has ever been found in any Pyramid in Egypt
Graham Hancock, Hancock on pyramids, Atlantis, and God, at 5:20
See Graham Hancock on pyramids, Atlantis, and God and Pyramid of Giza, where the Great Pyramid is dated to the reign of Khufu.
Pharaohs before Egypt
The pharaohs may not have started in Egypt. On Ta Seti, Africa’s Early Powerhouse, African History Fountain describes how a 1962 University of Chicago expedition found a pharaonic dynasty in Nubia, south of Egypt, older than Egypt’s own first dynasty. An incense burner from Kustu, from around 3000 BCE, already carries motifs that look like later Egyptian royal symbols.
Akhenaten
One pharaoh broke with the old gods.
his name was aman hotep the fourth technically but when he became pharaoh he changed his name to akhenaten
Funny Olde World, Akhenaten and the Moses comparison, at 6:10
See Akhenaten, Yuya, and a possible Moses.
Pharaoh in the Bible
The first pharaoh of the Bible meets Abram:
And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
Genesis 12:17
See Genesis 12 – Abram & Sarai and the older version on Genesis Apocryphon. The most famous one is the pharaoh of the Exodus. On Exodus, Moses and Confrontation between Yahweh and the Egyptian Gods I follow the plagues. Who he was is still open. See Who was the pharaoh of the Exodus and Exodus, Moses and Egyptian history. On Account of Sethos a later king is saved from an Assyrian army.
Related pages
- Gods of the Ancient Egypt
- Account of Menes
- Account of Cheops
- Sarcophagi of Pharaohs
- Pyramid of Giza
- Moses
- The Israelites
- Thoth
- Mummification
For every page I tagged with Pharaoh, see the Pharaoh tag archive.
