03-23-2012, 10:48 PM
Reply by Brihaspati to my question in BRF:
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ramana ji,
my thoughts go along among others -on an Egyptian node in the graph-tree [perhaps ideally it should not be a tree and allow cycles] of gradual corruption of the Indic in the world-history of theology.
In Egypt - the so-called Atenization started during the 18th dynasty. However curious thing is that it is the 18th dynasty which was a revolutionary nationalist revivalist - and it was founded by a woman, a daughter of a possible elite line that survived in middle Egypt after both the north and south fell off to invaders. This remarkable lady actually chose a commoner for a husband, and went to war personally with husband [ and then with sons when the husband died in battle and the first son was also killed - leaving the younger Thuthmoses to wrest back control of whole of Egypt].
The line produced Hatshepsut too - whose memory was systematically chiseled out by her half brother on succession. But 18th dynasty remained intricately linked with poweful royal women who shared ruling with men. This seems to have been the key which soured the future for women in monotheism after the murky post-Akhenaten years when Nefertiti probably compromised with pre-existing theology.
The followers of the new cult saw women as being responsible for all trouble by trying to share the supreme chair of pharaohs - who also were considered divine. Hence the birth of the key theme that the male divine has no female companions! This querred the pitch for "Mose(s)" meaning a generic Egyptian or perhaps even a mixed Canaanite/Israelite+Egyptian parentage. [We can see that there are refs to Mose's non-Israelite wives and that his descendants are not mentioned as the chief priestly class of Judaism - but that of his bro Aaron].
ramana Wrote:Bji, Have you thought about the persistent meme in Abraham faiths about the attitude towards women?
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ramana ji,
my thoughts go along among others -on an Egyptian node in the graph-tree [perhaps ideally it should not be a tree and allow cycles] of gradual corruption of the Indic in the world-history of theology.
In Egypt - the so-called Atenization started during the 18th dynasty. However curious thing is that it is the 18th dynasty which was a revolutionary nationalist revivalist - and it was founded by a woman, a daughter of a possible elite line that survived in middle Egypt after both the north and south fell off to invaders. This remarkable lady actually chose a commoner for a husband, and went to war personally with husband [ and then with sons when the husband died in battle and the first son was also killed - leaving the younger Thuthmoses to wrest back control of whole of Egypt].
The line produced Hatshepsut too - whose memory was systematically chiseled out by her half brother on succession. But 18th dynasty remained intricately linked with poweful royal women who shared ruling with men. This seems to have been the key which soured the future for women in monotheism after the murky post-Akhenaten years when Nefertiti probably compromised with pre-existing theology.
The followers of the new cult saw women as being responsible for all trouble by trying to share the supreme chair of pharaohs - who also were considered divine. Hence the birth of the key theme that the male divine has no female companions! This querred the pitch for "Mose(s)" meaning a generic Egyptian or perhaps even a mixed Canaanite/Israelite+Egyptian parentage. [We can see that there are refs to Mose's non-Israelite wives and that his descendants are not mentioned as the chief priestly class of Judaism - but that of his bro Aaron].