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year legal challenge in which Mose prevailed triumphant. <strong>The</strong> story also<br />

made its way into another demotic tale of the Third Intermediate Period<br />

where Mose described his father’s life, an oblique view of his own life<br />

and the expulsion of the followers of Set.<br />

Mose described the challenge of a powerful royal figure who tried<br />

to steal his mother’s inheritance. In the process, this person altered the<br />

records of the Temple. He fled in disgrace after the discovery. It is quite<br />

possible that the Chief Accountant’s one hundred year battle for the land<br />

of his mother was actually Egypt’s recovery of its Nile delta territories<br />

from the Semites who were growing ever more numerous. <strong>The</strong>se Semitic<br />

Levant Asiatics in the delta were seeking land at a time when the borders<br />

of Egypt were already under considerable pressure from both Palestine<br />

and Libya. An attempt by Ra Meses to achieve the Semite goal by<br />

deception may have been the last straw.<br />

Notwithstanding what might have been Ra Meses’ reason for<br />

leaving Egypt unexpectedly, he appears to have returned to Egypt from<br />

Syria shortly after the death of Pharaoh Merenptah (Mer En Ptah) in<br />

about 1203BCE, when Merenptah’s half-brother Amenmesse usurped the<br />

throne of Egypt. Three years later, in 1200BCE, Seti II deposed this<br />

usurper and gained the throne as the son and rightful heir of Merenptah.<br />

<strong>The</strong> deposing of Amenmesse occurred at the same time that the<br />

followers of Set called on the successors of the Hyksos in Jerusalem for<br />

help. This has led some scholars to suggest that Amenmesse is Messui or<br />

Moses. However, there is a more compelling argument.<br />

On his return from Syria, Ra Meses becomes Ra Meses Em Per<br />

Ra. <strong>The</strong> title meant he was a Prince of the Royal Dynasty the House of<br />

Ra and therefore one of the seventy grandchildren of Ramses II. He<br />

seems to have been active in deposing Amenmesse. Ra Meses, our<br />

candidate for Moses, became Kingmaker (Arsu) for the rest of the<br />

dynasty.<br />

Ra Meses also became Chancellor with the name Bai/Bay, or Si<br />

Osire, which is the same as name as the son of Osiris or Osarsiph who led<br />

the followers of Set to Avaris. 374 In 1188BCE, Ra Meses placed Queen<br />

Ta Usert on the throne and prepared a tomb for her although she<br />

subsequently abandoned it in preference for internment with Pharaoh<br />

Sethnakht.<br />

Sethnakht became Pharaoh in about 1186BCE. He promptly<br />

expelled Ra Meses and all his followers. 375 As noted with the story of<br />

Mose, Sethnakht’s twentieth dynasty always made a great point of Ra<br />

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