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Moses in Egypt’s Sixth Dynasty

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by Damien F. Mackey Previously, and hopefully, I have lain the foundations for linking Egypt’s pyramid-building Fourth Dynasty with the Sixth Dynasty, and indeed with the Twelfth Dynasty (to be considered later). Linking the 4th, 6th … dynasties? We may be able to trace the rise of the 4th dynasty’s Khufu (Cheops) - whose full name was Khnum-khuefui (meaning ‘Khnum is protecting me’) - to the 6th dynasty, to the wealthy noble (recalling that the founding 12th dynasty pharaoh “had no royal blood”) from Abydos in the south, called Khui. An abbreviation of Khuefui? This Khui had a daughter called Ankhenesmerire, in whose name are contained all the elements of Mer-es-ankh, the first part of which, Meres, accords phonetically with the name Eusebius (following Artapanus) gave for the Egyptian foster-mother of Moses, “Merris”. “Merris, the wife of Chenephres, King of Upper Egypt; being childless, she pretended to have given birth to [Moses] and brought him up as her own child. (...
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Moses in Egypt’s Fifth Dynasty

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by Damien F. Mackey Should we have been considering Ptahhotep as Moses? If, as posited in my recent article: Moses in Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty (3) Moses in Egypt's Fourth Dynasty Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty, revised, fits promisingly as being the dynastic period of rule from the approximate childhood of Moses through to his sojourn in Midian, then, chronologically, the Fifth Dynasty, which supposedly followed the Fourth, ought to have coincided with the return to Egypt by Moses, and with the Plagues, and, finally, with the Exodus. None of this is at all evident during the Fifth Dynasty, however, which was, as we have learned in my article: Some Fourth and Fifth Dynasty similarities (5) Some Fourth and Fifth Dynasty similarities a phase of intense building and supposed innovations – not one of extreme chaos. Now, with the Fourth Dynasty pharaoh, Menkaure, identified with the Fifth Dynasty pharaoh (probably Menkauhor), Sahure (and also as the dynastic founding “new...
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Some Fourth and Fifth Dynasty similarities

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by Damien F. Mackey “Despite all these changes, the 5th Dynasty may have been closely related to the 4th”. ancient-egypt.org The Fifth Dynasty was, as I have maintained in my reconstructions of the life of Moses, for example: Life of Moses and reform of the Old - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5) Life of Moses and reform of the Old - Middle Kingdom of Egypt the same dynasty as was the Fourth (and the Sixth and the Twelfth). For instance, there are various compelling parallels between the dynastic founder of the Sixth Dynasty, Teti (d. c. 2333 BC, conventional dating) and the dynastic founder of the Twelfth Dynasty, Amenemhet so-called I (c. 1939-1910 BC, conventional dating) – these names being wrongly separated apart by Egyptologists by some four centuries. Then there is the golden thread of the female name “Merris” (Egyptian foster-mother of Moses: Artapanus), as Meresankh (meres + ankh), coupled with her husband, “Chenephres” (Artapanus), running through the Fourth (Ch...
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More ‘camera-shy’ ancient potentates

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by Damien F. Mackey One may find it very hard to imagine that a ruler of the significance of Djedkare Isesi (Assa), whose reign may have been as long as forty years, has only one image of which to boast. Following on from my very brief article: Shalmaneser V and Nebuchednezzar were ‘camera-shy’? (3) Shalmaneser V and king Nebuchednezzar were 'camera-shy'? | Damien Mackey - Academia.edu I have come across two other powerful rulers of substance, for whom we have, in both cases, only the one statue. These two are Djedkare Isesi of Egypt’s Fifth Dynasty, and Ashurnasirpal, so-called II, of Assyria. Regarding the seriously megalomaniacal Assyrian king, Ashurnasirpal, I expressed my great surprise in: De-coding Jonah (3) De-coding Jonah as follows: Kings unnecessarily duplicated I was very greatly surprised to read the following piece of information as provided by Mattias Karlsson regarding the almost total lack of statuary depicting the, albeit megalomania...
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Moses in Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty

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by Damien F. Mackey When the Bible is forcedly contoured to the king-lists it just does not fit. Since Imhotep looks safe as Joseph of Egypt: Enigmatic Imhotep - did he really exist? (2) Enigmatic Imhotep - did he really exist? and since Imhotep (Joseph) belonged to Egypt’s so-called Third Dynasty, as a vizier of pharaoh Horus Netjerikhet, then we might expect the Fourth Dynasty to be the one into which Moses was born and lived. And what makes the Fourth Dynasty particularly appealing, from a biblical point of view, is that the Fourth Dynasty was a pyramid-building dynasty. Back in antiquity, historians (see below) claimed that slaves built the great pyramids of Egypt, a theory not at all popular today. Thus: The pyramids of Giza were not built by slaves - Australian Associated Press (aap.com.au) How the pyramids of Giza were built remains one of Egypt’s biggest mysteries but Macquarie University Egyptologist Dr Karin Sowada told AAP FactCheck, that archaeological evid...
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Life of Moses and reform of the Old - Middle Kingdom of Egypt

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by Damen F. Mackey As, I think, Noah and the Genesis Flood enable for a radical revision of the Geological (Ice) and Stone Ages, so will the long life of Moses, who carefully presents himself as “a new Noah” (see I. Kikawada and A. Quinn’s Before Abraham Was. The Unity of Genesis 1-11, 1985), enable for a stringent tightening up of what are thought to have been some very powerful Egyptian dynasties, stretched out, in Procrustean fashion, over the ‘bed’ of supposedly two separate Egyptian kingdoms. A key to understanding the history and chronology of ancient Egypt, and the place of Moses in it, is to recognise, as had Dr. Donovan Courville (in The Exodus Problem and Its Ramifications, 2 vols., 1971), that the Old and Middle Kingdoms are, at least in part, contemporaneous. This will immediately cut out hundreds of years of unwanted ‘history’, and remove a lot of baggage and duplication of people and events. There are, indeed, indications that Egypt’s Old Kingdom was...
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