MH> wonder if you could catch me up quickly. 
On the thread? sure. dunno how quick tho... 
Sources: Oedipus & Akhnaton by Velikovsky, Primitive Mythology, 
Occidental Mythology by Joe Campbell, Nation Geo IIRC, Cuneiform 
library found (at Nineveh ?).  Oedipus by Sophocles, The Birth of 
Tragedy by Neitzsche.  Radio commentary on PBS today by Daniel 
Pinkwater ?... about his dogs. 
 
Which pack once had one that would leap the bank of his stock 
pond to harass a goose, with the rest of the pack behind him, 
but which do not enter the water.  Yet, still today, long after 
the instigator of this routine died, the pack still runs up the 
bank *as if the goose, and the leader were still there*. It has 
become a pack 'ritual', and will be handed down until the pack 
itself is dispersed. 
 
We are used to thinking that myth does not transmit accurate real 
data well, when in fact it does do so, but the interpretation is, 
as Joe Campbell shows, very subtle. 
 
Diplomatic letter between the Assyrian(?) King and a King of Ilium 
or Troy, where he makes mention of them being two of five great 
brother kings, Crete, Mohenja Daro on the Indus, and Egypt being 
the other three.  Letter discussing what to do about the pirates 
from the west [proto Greek], but also inferring a great deal of 
trade, travel, & communication among the five. 
 
Another cuneiform document of Sargon II (2300 BCE) describes his 
lowly birth, and how his momma put him into a reed basket made 
waterproof with pitch, and how he floated down the Tigris to be 
found by a princess and brought into, and up, in a royal house. 
You will find the same tale in the Old Testament ascribed to the 
life of Moses some thousand years later.  Campbell points out the 
Egyptians did not even have tar until the time of the Ptolemies 
when it was first imported from Persia. 
 
He also points out that the first mention of the Torah is when 
the holy scroll was found in 522BCE in the temple.  Problem is, 
if you look at the text, you see the language is not that of the 
Hebrews of the 10th or 15th cent BCE, but contemporary with the 
time it was found.  Kinda like finding a new Shakespearian play 
written in American English. 
 
Then you got Velikovsky, who I admit is controversial, but this 
time anyway, he has an air tight case.  He shows the pictures of 
Amenhotep III, and how over time, he grew into a transvestite. It 
appears also that he rebelled in another way, by picking his own 
wife *from outside the royal family*.  The Egyptian royal houses 
had been practicing incest, apparently as Machiavelli suggested, 
to preclude any outside family from gaining any pretext to start 
a coup and take the throne. 
 
Queen Tiy was a cute bimbo from the boondocks, and a lot smarter 
than she looked.  Amenhotep, whatever his sexual proclivity, was 
no dog either.  But, her first born, Akhnaton, was a freak.  Even 
odder perhaps to modern sensibilities, is that so far as I know, 
this Akhnaton was the only freak ever born in an Egyptian royal 
line, despite the fact that over 4000 years of this they had 29 
dynasties, many of which inbred for a dozen generations. Bear in 
mind, that this *particular union* was not incestuous! 
 
But, I digress.  Ikky is sent out by the priests of Atun on the 
night camel train to... Damascus is my best bet.  Babylon is also 
likely, and they too had a long history, perhaps the originators, 
of incestuous families.  To be well born to them meant that your 
father and grandfather were the same man.  In all likelihood, he 
was not alone, but sent with, or among, others.  In any case, if 
Velikovsky and I are correct, he grows up among competing myths, 
the Egyptian, the Babylonian, Phoenician, and at the west end of 
the silk road, god only knows what else. 
 
But, when he is twenty or so, daddy dies, so he comes back to run 
the family business, and to secure his claim on it, marries momma. 
She gives him twin sons & two daughters.  And after he has things 
in order, he remembers how pissed he is at the priesthood for not 
accepting him as he is, and fires them all, and says there is only 
one God.  If you grow up with Gods from all over, one reasonable 
assumption would be that they are all the same thing. 
 
Now, the politically correct thing to do, which no doubt many did, 
was to read the writing on the wall, and take up the new religion. 
Among others, Velikovsky suggests the governor of Goshen.  Now, I 
havta wonder about Ikky.  Look at him, and I would say that queen 
Tiy picked out some Nubian stud instead of the pharaoh, and that a 
good reason they shipped him off was to hide the cockholding.  And 
I dunno what Ikky died of, but for sure it was too soon. 
 
Momma worked out a deal where the two sons would time share the 
throne, toss for who got the first year.  When the year was up, as 
Machiavelli couldda tole you, momma's family made a deal with the 
banned pagan priesthood, and they had a little civil war in which 
the second son did not get his turn, but was killed, and left for 
carrion on the battle field.  Sis goes to the Pharaoh, and asks to
bury her brother, and her other brother says no.  She sneaks off 
and does so anyway, but gets caught, and put into the shaft she 
was having dug for a tomb.  The Pharaoh says, "bitch, you like him 
so much, you gonna go in there with him.", and thereafter has a 
basket lowered every day with food and water for her the rest of 
her life.   ... see second half. 
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