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202 101 Myths of the Bible
cruel oppression; the liberator fled Egypt; the liberator returned to Egypt to free his
people; the liberator and the evil king engaged in a series of magical confrontations; and,
finally, the liberator defeated the oppressor.
In the biblical version of the Horus-Set motif, the House of Israel replaced Egypt
as the center of legitimate authority. The role of the legitimate king belonged to Jahweh
because only the Hebrew god could be king over the House of Israel, and Moses
served as the king’s representative. Pharaoh, although the legitimate king of Egypt,
played the part of “Set the Usurper” because he had no moral authority to rule over
the House of Israel and subject it to tyranny. Moses was the Horus-child, the rightful
heir hidden away to avoid execution by the evil king, who later returned to defeat the
illegitimate king and liberate his people from tyranny.
In the biblical version of the story, however, there was one small but important
change to the Egyptian storyline. It was Moses, the victor, who went into the wilderness,
not the evil king. This was the result of unavoidable historical circumstances. So,
to make history conform to the Egyptian myth, the scribes portrayed Egypt, decimated
by the Ten Plagues, as the wilderness, and depicted the actual journey into the
wilderness as the true victory because the hero led his people to the real kingdom in
the Promised Land.
On a political level, the Bible depicted Moses as an adopted member of the
pharaoh’s family. If no other son had been designated as the pharaoh’s successor, Moses
would have had a legitimate claim to succeed the king as the next pharaoh. This would
have been especially true if there were no other royal blood heirs to the throne.
That, not surprisingly, was the historical context in which Moses did confront the
pharaoh. The Exodus occurred sometime between the reign of Horemheb and the
next three pharaohs, Ramesses I, Seti I, and Ramesses II. None of these pharaohs
were descended from the royal blood line, which petered out just four years before the
reign of Horemheb. These subsequent rulers were military figures who took control
in the political vacuum.
According to the biblical account, Moses returned to Egypt upon the death of a
pharaoh. Since the pharaoh who died would have been one of the kings without royal
blood, a legitimate question existed as to who had the right of succession. A member