About 13 thousand years ago something occurred that would change everything on our planet. After a period of 100 thousand years of a steady cooling down the temperatures of earth begin to rise.... there is rapid warming.
By the time the earth begins to warm up we have populated most of the planet, but had not yet formed the great civilizations.
The warming temperatures would create population increases and the beginning of the early Civilizations of Egypt and Babylon and later there demise by the increasing populations of northern Europeans .
As temperatures continue to increase, populations of the northern European tribes begin to grow. Trade between these northern tribes and the settled populations of Babylon and later Mittani grow.
Peoples from the northern lands would migrate and trade into the lands of Babylon, and Egypt. Trade would continually increase and northern traders would soon threaten the established southern civilizations of Egypt, Babylon, Persia and Carthage.
With these migrations came a mindset of freedom. Living with the harshness of the northern climate and its nature for so many years would have made these peoples serious adversaries .
They would come south to the lands that would one day be Macedonia, Assyria, and Greece and build empires. From about 2500 BC till the final demise of the southern civilizations by Alexander the Great in 320 B.C., we see a steady attack by northern Europeans.
These northern tribes would become the sea peoples that would plunder Egypt, as well as the Greek / Macedonians that finally destroy Babylon and Egypt.
Adam and Eve
The influence Egyptians had on the belief of the Israelites must have been significant. Both history and the Bible show people that lived in peace next to each other for hundreds of years. No mountains to separate them, no walls, no fortifications between these two peoples.
If you look at this as human dynamics you see the resource here is the river Nile and its civilization. Any band of tough guys would have seen the advantage of taking form them all they could.
The story of Adam and Eve is told by Moses to the Israelites. They are planing to escape from the richest land in the world to be located exactly where all enemies will need to come through to take the Nile river and its resources.
The creation story of the Hebrew God is very similar to the Egyptian creation story. In the Egyptian story, God comes from chaos and creates the earth the sky , the night and the animals.
The Egyptian story has Osiris and Isis instead of Adam and Eve… and have Osiris being killed by his brother Set . Biblical creation has the story of Cane killing Able… and Cane the bad son going to the East… This would work nicely if you wanted to have a people have distrust of those coming from the east.…for they are the sons of Cain. Especially if all your enemies are from the east like the Babylonians and Assyrians.
The Egyptian belief is that these original peoples are Gods and in Genesis they are humans. In the Egyptian story God creates the heavens and the earth but the heaven and earth are Gods.
In the Bible, God creates the heavens, the earth, and creates man and woman in his image. Then he is done on the seventh day. But wait, he actually is not done .. has he made a mistake?
As an afterthought a working class is created for he forgot there was no one to do the work.
Genesis 2:5 "And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground"
God now creates Adam and Eave to till the earth and work the garden. I would suppose Adam and Eave are made to serve the Man and Woman created in Gods image during first the 7 days of creation. Obviously if you are made in Gods image you don't till the earth.
The parallels between the Egyptian religion and the old testament are quite numerous, to the extent of archeologists finding Biblical verses in Egyptian temples.
The Floods
Ice Age would end… and if God is the Alpha and Omega, it would be God that did all this. This Ice age would not end calmly or without greater effect. Global warming... rapid global warming.
The ice began to melt, the seas would began to swell, great floods would come. It would stand to reason that as most all people lived along the rivers and seas, floods would have been a problem.
After 100 thousand year cooling period world would warm up like never before, and it would stay warm. The peoples of the northern lands would have found their lands more plentiful. With shorter winters and longer growing seasons...populations would grow in these northern climates that were once cold and barren.
The harsh conditions change into the relatively warm and calm forests we now know in Europe. Populations grow on the northern outskirts of what will become the established Egyptian and Babylonian civilizations.
It is now possibly 6000 years before Christ. these survivors, of floods would be those that would start the civilizations we know today , the Greek, Macedonian, and Roman peoples. Today we have archeological finds that may indicate that religion and civilization began not in Egypt but in Turkey exactly where the northern migrations would meet these southern peoples.
The adversity of the events, of migrations, that journey from thousands of years ago, was now in this mans collective memory. There were now some that believed that there was something internal that connected us to the Alpha and Omega… to God, a living God that spoke to us. A living God that was responsible for both suffering and love. A God not to be understood but to be obeyed. The God that speaks to Abraham.
It is remarkable that some have problems with evolution. We evolve, even in how we see our God.
For some men now there could be but one God, and in Babylon, the Gods of Babylon could not serve him. This man is the man inside Zarathustra and inside Abraham.
For the people that lived near Mount Ararat where Noah is said to have landed, in time they become believers of the one God Ahuramazda (Ahura - lord, Mazda- wisdom) , and their prophet is Zarathustra. These are the people that will become the Hyskos, , who later become the Persians and the Hebrew.
Abraham comes from the city of Ur in Babylon. The father of the Hebrew people and the future of a nation.
The Bible will tell us that this is now the tenth generation after the flood. The people of Abraham go through a journey from Babylon through the lands of the Hurrians, Hyskos, and Mitanni and then west to Egypt where this story began. The Hurrians, from Mitannie the sons of Abraham have a God, known as YHWH. The lands of Mitanni from where the tribes of Abraham have come to Egypt from, had named God, Ahuramazda.
In Egypt they will meet the illusionists and masters of Kingdom of Egypt. The line of wise men known as the Pharaohs now come face to face with their past, those that had gone east of Eden are now back. The religion of Abraham, touches the religion of the Egyptians. These people who believe independently, who have one God, would come to teach the great Egyptians.
Exodus
Archaeology tells us that about 3800 years ago Semitic people from the lands of Mitanni settle in the lands of the Nile Delta. They are known as the Hyksos, or “the foreign rulers”. At some point during this period the Pharaoh removes these people from the delta region, but history can not say where they went. These peoples have infected the land of the Pharaohs. So infected is Egypt, that one of its Pharaohs Amenhotep IV, tries to convert the Egyptian religion and all its Priests to the belief in one God, Amun .
There are no other archeological or historical events that parallel the biblical events of the exodus like this one. Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell both believe that the reign Amenhotep IV, is the most likely time for the Exodus story.
Remember these Egyptian Pharaohs are the greatest of all masters. They have for thousands of years perfected the control of how reality is perceived by their slaves. In this world reality, religion, and history is invented for the working slave class through propaganda for the benefit of the priests and the Pharaohs.
Is the following story a possibility?
Keep in mind that in these times only a select few could read and most all people were slaves. Those that could read believed themselves divinely selected to rule others.
The Pharaoh "Tut-moses" removes the Hyskos from his land and most cleverly places them next to Egypt in Canaan. To do this he gives them new and extraordinary reality. These peoples, these slaves that believe in one God the sons of Abraham,they that have infected the land of the Pharaohs, will be given a make over of biblical proportions.
Thousands are sent into the desert, lead by Moses and his priests. For 40 years they are forced to wander a desert. They are walked in circles and in starvation. The most perfect form of brain washing and mind control will occur. A generation passes and a new history is given to them to be believed. They are resettled at the very border of Egypt, to be governed by Kings they believe to be their own. Told that they had been given this land by God.
They will protect that land unlike any slave, for they believe they are free, and have been divinely given this land. The truth will be kept from them and they will fight all invaders that come for the rich lands of the Nile and of Egypt.
A little side note …. Why didn’t anyone never ask... “why did the Pharaoh not go get his slaves back?” They could have said at some point in the hundreds of years… “lets go get the slaves we lost so many years ago.” ,"we can’t let that Moses get away with that!" There should be some sort of sentiments there, a few wars at least. But nothing … no problems. Plus, there is no sea between Egypt and Israel you can walk there.
None the less the Israelites certainly do a lot of fighting, just not against the Egyptians. The old testament is a war history of these peoples.