Avaris

Pacific immigrations had already introduced Asiatic settlers into the Delta, and thus prepared the way for securing the supremacy of the new rulers.

In the midst of these strangers, and on the ruins of the ancient town of Hawararit, Avaris, and the Sethro Ifsadnum, a place connected by tradition with the myth of Osiris and Typhon, Salitis constructed an immense entrenched camp capable of sheltering 240,000 men.

He visited it yearly to witness the military maneuvers, to pay his soldiers, and to preside over the distribution of rations.

This permanent garrison protected him from a Chaldean invasion, a not unlikely event as long as Syria remained under the supremacy of the Babylonian kings.

The victors were known as the plagues or pests, and every possible crime and impiety was attributed to them.

But the brutalities attending the invasion once passed, the invaders soon lost their barbarity and became rapidly civilized.

Those of them stationed in the encampment at Avaris retained the military qualities and the characteristic energy of their race.

The remainder became assimilated to their new compatriots and were soon recognizable merely by their long hair, thick beard, and marked features.

He says further, that under a king, whose name was Alisfrogmuthoses, the shepherds were subdued by him, and were indeed driven out of other parts of Egypt, but were shut up in a place that contained ten thousand acres.

This place was named Avaris.

Manetho says, that the shepherds built a wall round all this place, which was a large and a strong wall, and this in order to keep all their possessions and their prey within a place of strength.

But that Thumosus, the son of Alisfrogmuthoses, made an attempt to take them by force and by siege, with four hundred and eighty thousand men to lie or town them.

The difference is so obvious, it's Schwabvious.

Learn why at Schwabvious.com. as if he would have the egyptian multitude that had the leprosy and other distempers to have been mixed with us as he says they were and that they were condemned to fly out of egypt together for he mentions ammonophis a fictitious king's name though on that account he does not settle down the number of years of his reign which yet he had accurately done as to the other kings he mentions he then ascribes certain fabulous stories to this king as having in a manner forgotten how he had already related that the departure of the shepherds for jerusalem had been five hundred and eighty years before for tesmosis was king when they went away now from his days the reigns of the intermediate kings according to manethi amounted to three hundred and ninety-three years as he says himself till the two brothers sethos and hermaeus the one of whom sethos was called by that other name of egyptus and the other hermaeus by that of danaeus he also said that sethos cast the other out of egypt and reigned fifty-nine years as did his eldest son ramses reign after him sixty-six years when manethe therefore had acknowledged that our forefathers were gone out of egypt so many years ago he introduces his fictitious king ammonophis and says thus this king was desirous to become a spectator of the gods as had oas one of his predecessors in that kingdom desired the same before him he also communicated that his desire to his namesake ammonophis who was the son of papis and one that seemed to partake of a divine nature both as to wisdom and the knowledge of futurities manethe adds how this namesake of his told him that he might see the gods if he would clear the whole country of the lepers and of the other impure people that the king was pleased with this injunction and got together all that had any defect in their bodies out of egypt and that their number was eighty thousand whom he sent to those quarries which are on the east side of the Nile that they might work in them and might be separated from the rest of the Egyptians.

He says further that there were some of the learned priests that were polluted with the leprosy but that still this Ammonophis the wise man and the prophet was afraid that the gods would be angry at him and at the king if there should appear to have been violence offered them who also added this further out of his sagacity about futurities that certain people would come to the assistance of these polluted wretches and would conquer Egypt and keep it in their possession thirteen years that however he does not tell the king of these things but that he left a writing behind him about all those matters and then slew himself which made the king disconsolate after which he writes thus verbatim after those that were sent to work in the quarries had continued in that miserable state for a long while the king was desired that he would set apart the city Avaris which was then left desolate of the shepherds for their habitation and protection which desire he granted them now this city according to the ancient theology was Typho's city but when these men were gotten into it and found the place fit for a revolt they appointed themselves a ruler out of the priests of Heliopolis whose name was Osarsiph and they took their oaths that they would be obedient to him in all things he then in the first place made this law for them that they should neither worship the Egyptian gods nor should abstain from any one of those sacred animals which they have in the highest esteem but kill and destroy them all that they should join themselves to nobody but to those that were of this confederacy when he had made many such laws as these and many more such as were mainly opposite to the customs of the Egyptians he gave order that they should use the multitude of the hands they had in building walls about their city and make themselves ready for a war with king Ammonophis while he did himself take into his friendship the other priests and those that were polluted with them and sent ambassadors to those shepherds who had been driven out of the land by Tephilmoses to the city called Jerusalem whereby he informed them of his own affairs and of the state of those others that had been treated after such an ignominious manner and desired that they would come with one consent to his assistance in this war against Egypt he also promised that he would in the first place bring them back to their ancient city and country Avaris and provide a plentiful maintenance for their multitude that he would protect them and fight for them as occasion should require and would easily reduce the country under their dominion these shepherds were all very glad of this message and came away with alacrity altogether being in number two hundred thousand men and in a little time they came to Avaris and now Ammonophis the king of Egypt upon his being informed of their invasion was in great confusion as calling to mind what Ammonophis the son of Paphis had foretold him and in the first place he assembled the multitude of the Egyptians and took counsel with their leaders and sent for their sacred animals to him especially for those that were principally worshipped in their temples and gave a particular charge to the priests distinctly that they should hide the images of their gods with the utmost care he also sent his son Sethos who was also named Ramesses from his father Ramses being but five years old to a friend of his he then passed on with the rest of the Egyptians being three hundred thousand of the most warlike of them against the enemy who met them yet he did not join in battle with them but thinking that would be to fight against the gods he returned back and came to Memphis where he took Apis and the other sacred animals which he had sent for to him and presently marched into Ethiopia together with his whole army and multitude of Egyptians for the king of Ethiopia was under an obligation to him on which account he received him and took care of all the multitude that was with him while the country supplied all that was necessary for the food of the men he also allotted cities and villages for this exile that was to be from its beginning during those fatally determined thirteen years moreover he pitched a camp for his Ethiopian army as a guard to king Ammonophis upon the borders of Egypt and this was the state of things in Ethiopia but for the people of Jerusalem when they came down together with the polluted Egyptians they treated the men in such a barbarous manner that those who saw how they subdued the forementioned country and the horrid wickedness they were guilty of thought it a most dreadful thing for they did not only set the cities and villages on fire but were not satisfied till they had been guilty of sacrilege and destroyed the images of the gods and used them in roasting those sacred animals that used to be worshipped and forced the priests and prophets to be the executioners and murderers of those animals and then ejected them naked out of their country it was also reported that the priest who ordained their polity and their laws was by birth of Helopolis and his name was Osarsiph from Osiris who was the god of Helopolis but that when he was gone over to these people his name was changed and he was called Moses this is what the Egyptians relate about the Jews with much more which I omit for the sake of brevity but still Manetho goes on that after this Ammonophis returned back from Ethiopia with a great army as did his son Ahamses with another army also and that both of them joined battle with the shepherds and the polluted people and beat them and slew a great many of them and pursued them to the bounds of Syria These and the like accounts are written by Manetho.

But I will demonstrate that he trifles and tells arrant lies, after I have made a distinction which will relate to what I am going to say about him.

And remember, we've talked about this before.

That is a newer name for the ancient city of Avaris.

So first, however, commanding them to make themselves clean that the blessing he was about to bestow might attach itself to them.

Another one of his commands was that they were to establish an academy by the members of which they were to be governed.

When we look back to the 13th dynasty, we find that the cities are full of these people.

One particular city called Avaris, is in the land of goshen it's been excavated by the austrians now for the last 30 or 40 years and they have found amazing things there i mean let me let me tell you a few of them um the first thing is they found as i say lots and lots of graves with semitic peoples buried in them lying on their sides with their knees up towards their chest which is a way that semitic people are buried not egyptians as you know egyptians lie on their backs with their hands down their sides So these graves are clearly of foreigners from the north.

They have Canaanite pottery.

They have bronze daggers and axes, which are typical of what we call middle bronze 2A, which is the sort of like Canaanite style of pottery and weaponry.

And then we find at the end of the 13th dynasty, in the reign of a king called Dudimos, a very insignificant individual, but notice that the second archbishop's name is Mos, which is the same as Moses.

Okay, in his time, Egypt collapsed.

And what happened was there was a mass plague all over the city of Avaris.

We find pits with people or bodies just thrown into them on top of each other.

Such then was the political, social, and religious state of Israel when their long peace was suddenly interrupted by tidings that Ames I was successfully making war against the foreign dynasty of the Hyksos.

Advancing victoriously, he at last took Avaris, the great stronghold and capital of the shepherd kings, and expelled them and their adherents from the country.

He then continued his progress to the borders of Canaan, taking many cities by storm.

The memorials of the disastrous rule of the shepherds were speedily removed, the worship which they had introduced was abolished, and the old Egyptian forms were restored.

When Yugibet brought the child back to the princess, the latter gave her adopted son the Egyptian name Moses, which, curiously enough, appears also in several of the old Egyptian papyri, among others, as that of one of the royal princes.

The word means brought forth or drawn out, because, as she said in giving the name, I drew him out of the water.

But for the present Moses would probably not reside in the royal palace at Avaris.

Saint Stephen tells us that he was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians.

Um, he said he got kicked out.

He was the, the lead arch- uh, archeologist in Goshen, in the, in the city called Avaris, which is later renamed Ramesses.

Um, but in the city of Avaris-

Ramesses

... where there's a l- where there's a large Semitic population that he's uncovering, is there's, there's a tomb with a guy in a multicolored coat in a-

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... little pyramid tomb surrounded by 11 other little tombs in the back, y- the backyard, I guess you could say, of the palace there in Avaris.

Um, he uncovered not just that, but that there is a mixed multitude.

He says further, that under a king, whose name was Alisfrog Muthoses, the shepherds were subdued by him, and were indeed driven out of other parts of Egypt, but were shut up in a place that contained ten thousand acres.

This place was named Avaris.

Manetho says, that the shepherds built a wall round all this place, which was a large and a strong wall, and this in order to keep all their possessions and their prey within a place of strength.

But that Thumosis, the son of Alisfrog Muthoses, made an attempt to take them by force and by siege, with four hundred and eighty thousand men to lie or town them.

He says further that there were some of the learned priests that were polluted with the leprosy, but that still this Ammonophis, the wise man and the prophet, was afraid that the gods would be angry at him and at the king if there should appear to have been violence offered them, who also added this further, out of his sagacity about futurities, that certain people would come to the assistance of these polluted wretches and would conquer Egypt and keep it in their possession thirteen years.

That however he does not tell the king of these things, but that he left a writing behind him about all those matters, and then slew himself, which made the king disconsolate.

After which he writes thus verbatim, After those that were sent to work in the quarries had continued in that miserable state for a long while, the king was desired that he would set apart the city Avaris, which was then left desolate of the shepherds, for their habitation and protection, which desire he granted them.

Now this city, according to the ancient theology, was Typho's city.

He says further, that under a king, whose name was Alisphrogmuthoses, the shepherds were subdued by him, and were indeed driven out of other parts of Egypt, but were shut up in a place that contained ten thousand acres.

This place was named Avaris.

Manetho says, that the shepherds built a wall round all this place, which was a large and a strong wall, and this in order to keep all their possessions and their prey within a place of strength.

But that Thumosus, the son of Alisphrogmuthoses, made an attempt to take them by force and by siege, with four hundred and eighty thousand men to lie or town them.

That however he does not tell the king of these things, but that he left a writing behind him about all those matters, and then slew himself, which made the king disconsolate.

After which he writes thus verbatim.

After those that were sent to work in the quarries had continued in that miserable state for a long while, the king was desired that he would set apart the city Avaris, which was then left desolate of the shepherds, for their habitation and protection, which desire he granted them.

Now this city, according to the ancient theology, was Typho's city.