Encyclopedia - Hyksos: Encyclopedia - Hyksos
The Hyksos (Egyptian heka khasewet) were an ethnically mixed group of Southwest Asiatic or Semitic people who appeared in the eastern Nil...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hyksos, Hyksos: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hyksos, Hyksos
Hyksos, Hyksos The Shepherd-Kings of Egypt, who invaded and conquered Egypt from the east sometime after the beginning of the 13th dyn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hyksos: Encyclopedia Ii - Hyksos - Was There A Hyksos Invasion?
Manetho's account of the appearance of the Hyksos in Egypt calls it an armed invasion by a horde of foreign barbarians who met little res...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hyksos: Encyclopedia Ii - Hyksos - The Thebean Offensive
Hyksos - Under Sekenenra Tao II. The war against the Hyksos began in the closing years of the Seventeenth Dynasty at Thebes. Later New ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Avaris: Encyclopedia - Avaris
Avaris, thought to be located at Tell el-Dab'a (some still argue for different locations), was the ancient capital of the Hyksos dynastie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Against Apion: Encyclopedia - Against Apion
Against Apion was a work written by Flavius Josephus as a defense of Judaism as a classical religion and philosophy, stressing its antiqu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ahmose Son Of Ebana: Encyclopedia - Ahmose Son Of Ebana
Ahmose, son of Ebana served in the Egyptian military under the pharaohs: Tao II Seqenenre, Ahmose, Amenhotep I, and Thutmose I. His autob...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abomination Bible: Encyclopedia - Abomination Bible
This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897. Abomination in the Biblical ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ahmose I: Encyclopedia - Ahmose I
Ahmose I (also known as Amosis I) was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and the founder of the Eighteenth dynasty. He reigned between approximat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1600s Bc: Encyclopedia - 1600s Bc
Centuries: 18th century BC - 17th century BC - 16th century BC Decades: 1650s BC 1640s BC 1630s BC 1620s BC 1610s BC - 1600s BC - 1590s B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 18th Century Bc: Encyclopedia - 18th Century Bc
18th century BC - Significant persons. Hammurabi, ruler of the Babylonian Empire Tang overthrew emperor Jie, last ruler of the Xia dyn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eighteenth Dynasty Of Egypt: Encyclopedia - Eighteenth Dynasty Of Egypt
Known rulers, in the History of Egypt, for the Eighteenth Dynasty. The Eighteenth, Nineteen and Twentieth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sesostris: Encyclopedia - Sesostris
Sesostris was the name of a legendary king of ancient Egypt. According to Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus (who calls him Sesoosis), and Strab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 17th Century Bc: Encyclopedia - 17th Century Bc
17th century BC - Events. 1700 – 1500 BC -- Hurrian conquests. 1700 BC - Belu-bani became the King of Assyria. c. 1700 BC - Lila-Ir...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hyksos, Hyksos: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hyksos, Hyksos
Hyle (Greek) Wood, material; primordial matter as first manifested in and from Chaos, but as yet undifferentiated; the Mother, paired ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amun: Encyclopedia - Amun
Amun (also spelt Amon, Amoun, Amen, and rarely Imenand, and spelt in Greek as Ammon, and Hammon) was the name of a deity, in Egyptian myt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anat: Encyclopedia - Anat
Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Astarte | Ba'al | Berith | Dagon | El | Elyon | Elohim | Hadad | Mot | Salem | Shaddai | Yaw Adonai | El | Eloh...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hyksos: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Hyksos
Hyksos (Egypt, Egyptian). The mysterious nomads, the Shepherds, who invaded Egypt at a period unknown and far anteceding the days of M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ramesses I: Encyclopedia Ii - Ramesses I - Origins
Originally called Paramessu, he was of non-royal birth, born into a noble family from the Nile delta region, perhaps near the former Hyks...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Set Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Set Mythology - God Of Evil
Naturally, when, during the Second Intermediate Period the mysterious foreign Hyksos gained the rulership of Egypt, and ruled the Nile De...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anat: Encyclopedia Ii - Anat - ‘anat In Egypt
‘Anat first appears in Egypt in the 18th dynasty along with other northwest Semitic deities. She was especially worshipped in her aspec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apis Egyptian Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Apis Egyptian Mythology - From Bull To Man
Under Ptolemy Soter, efforts were made to integrate Egyptian religion with that of their hellenic rulers. Ptolemy's policy was to find a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Legend Of Osiris And Isis: Encyclopedia Ii - Legend Of Osiris And Isis - Set And Resurrection
Originally, Osiris' death was blamed on Apep, but after the time of the foreign Hyksos overlords (at the end of the Middle Kingdom), Set,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chariot: Encyclopedia Ii - Chariot - Ancient Near East
Chariot - Egyptian. The chariot, together with the horse itself, was introduced to Egypt during the reign of the Hyksos dynasty in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amun: Encyclopedia Ii - Amun - King
With the eviction of the Hyksos rulers from Egypt, by the armies of the Eighteenth dynasty, Thebes, where the victors were based, became ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hygeia, Hygea, Hygieia: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hygeia, Hygea, Hygieia
Hyksos, Hyksos The Shepherd-Kings of Egypt, who invaded and conquered Egypt from the east sometime after the beginning of the 13th dyn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ancient Israel And Judah: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ancient Israel And Judah - Egyptian Domination
The narrative behind how the Israelites became slaves, or if they did at all, is still unclear. A few historians believe that this may ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hebrews: Encyclopedia Ii - Hebrews - Modern Academic Views On The Origin Of The Hebrews
When the Tell el-Amarna archives were initially translated, some scholars eagerly equated the Habiru, described within the text, with the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ancient Egypt: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ancient Egypt - Open Problems
There are several open problems concerning ancient Egyptian history. Conclusions on the origins of the Hyksos and their first leaders are...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Pharaohs: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Pharaohs - Second Intermediate Period
The Second Intermediate Period is a period of disarray between the end of the Middle Kingdom, and the start of the New Kingdom. It is bes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Pharaohs: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Pharaohs - Middle Kingdom
The Middle Kingdom is the period from the end of the First Intermediate Period to be beginning of the Second Intermediate Period. In addi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Exodus: Encyclopedia Ii - The Exodus - Geographic Issues
The body of water crossed is traditionally the Red Sea but the Hebrew calls it literally, the "Reed Sea". See Passage of Red Sea for more...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plagues Of Egypt: Encyclopedia Ii - Plagues Of Egypt - Context
Although the main reason for the plagues appears to be Pharaoh's repeated refusal to release the Jewish people from slavery, according to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Avaris: Encyclopedia Ii - Avaris - Pi-ramasses
Ramasses or Pi-Ramasses is a city mentioned in the Bible 4 times. In Genesis 47:11; Exodus 1:11 and Numbers 33:3,5 it is a synonymn for G...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Generations Of Adam: Encyclopedia Ii - Generations Of Adam - Comparison Between The Lines
Taking the septuagint rendering of Methusael and Methuselah, and taking the Cainite line back two generations to make up the same numbers...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Generations Of Adam: Encyclopedia Ii - Generations Of Adam - The Lines
One line goes from Adam's son Cain, and the other goes via a son of Adam named Seth. The lines are: Cain Enoch Irad Mehujael Methusae...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apep: Encyclopedia Ii - Apep - Development
Apep formed part of the more complex cosmic system resulting from the identification of Ra as Atum, i.e. the creation of Atum-Ra, and the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Passage Of The Red Sea: Encyclopedia Ii - Passage Of The Red Sea - Locating The Crossing
Though yam in the phrase yam suph clearly means waters, but the reading of suph has given rise to great diversity of opinion as to the pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Exodus: Encyclopedia Ii - Exodus - Dating
The time-span in this book, from the death of Joseph to the erection of the tabernacle in the wilderness, covers about one hundred and fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Exodus: Encyclopedia Ii - The Exodus - Dating The Exodus
In the Bible, Pharaoh is treated as a name rather than a title, and is not otherwise named. Most prevailing theories fall into one of two...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ugarit: Encyclopedia Ii - Ugarit - History
Though the site is thought to have been inhabited earlier, Neolithic Ugarit was already important enough to be fortified with a wall earl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Passage Of The Red Sea: Encyclopedia Ii - Passage Of The Red Sea - Four Versions
According to the documentary hypothesis, there are three separate but interleaved prose accounts of the crossing. The earliest of these i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joseph Hebrew Bible: Encyclopedia Ii - Joseph Hebrew Bible - Critical View
The narratives concerning Joseph (Gen. 37 and 39) are composed of two principal strata: a Yahwistic stratum and an Elohistic one, with a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amun: Encyclopedia Ii - Amun - God Of Air
Originally, he was simply nothing more than a deification of the concept of air, and thus wind, one of the four fundamental concepts held...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apis Egyptian Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Apis Egyptian Mythology - The Ka Of Ptah
Apis was originally the Ka (power/life-force) of Ptah, the chief god in the area around Memphis. As a manifestation of Ptah, it was consi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apis Egyptian Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Apis Egyptian Mythology - Ka Of Osiris
When Osiris absorbed the identity of Ptah, becoming Ptah-Seker-Osiris, the Apis bull became considered an aspect of Osiris rather than Pt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amun: Encyclopedia Ii - Amun - Fertility God
When, subsequently, Egypt conquered Kush, they identified the chief deity of the Kushites as Amun. This deity was depicted as Ram headed,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anat: Encyclopedia Ii - Anat - ‘anat In Israel
The goddess ‘Anat is never mentioned in Hebrew scriptures as a goddess, though her name is apparently preserved in the city names Beth ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plagues Of Egypt: Encyclopedia Ii - Plagues Of Egypt - The Plagues In Popular Culture
The Ten Plagues of Egypt were dramatized by the heavy metal group Metallica in their song "Creeping Death", on their 1984 release Ride th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Legend Of Osiris And Isis: Encyclopedia Ii - Legend Of Osiris And Isis - Origin
In the Ennead, Osiris is the husband of Isis, and sibling of Set, all of whom are the great-grandchildren of the creator god Atum, and Ho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Legend Of Osiris And Isis: Encyclopedia Ii - Legend Of Osiris And Isis - Development And Mystery
As a life-death-rebirth deity, Horus/Osiris became a reflection of the annual cycle of crop harvesting as well as reflecting people's des...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Midian: Encyclopedia Ii - Midian - Religion
In the Bible, the Midianites are described as worshipping a multitude of gods, including Baal-peor and the Asherah. An Egyptian temple of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ugarit: Encyclopedia Ii - Ugarit - Ugaritic Literature
Apart from royal correspondence to neighbouring Bronze Age monarchs, Ugaritic literature from tablets found in the libraries include myth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 2nd Millennium Bc: Encyclopedia Ii - 2nd Millennium Bc - Events
To grasp the spirit of the 2nd millennium BC, we must divide it in two parts, for there is a period of change around its middle so import...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Levant: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Levant - The Bronze Age
The first cities started developing in southern Mesopotamia during the 4th millennium BC. With these ties of religion began to replace ti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Exodus: Encyclopedia Ii - The Exodus - Interpretation
For Orthodox Jews and fundamentalist Christians these findings present a problem, as they would invalidate a major claim in the Bible. No...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sardinia: Encyclopedia Ii - Sardinia - Geography
Sardinia has an area of 24,090 km2 and a population of 1.65 million. Sardinia is an autonomous region of Italy. The regional capital is C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sardinia: Encyclopedia Ii - Sardinia - Language
The most spoken languages in Sardinia are Italian and Sardinian, a Romance language with obscure roots in Phoenician, Etruscan, and Near ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Early History Of Sudan: Encyclopedia Ii - Early History Of Sudan - Kush
Northern Sudan's earliest historical record comes from Egyptian sources, which described the land upstream from the First Cataract, calle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sardinia: Encyclopedia Ii - Sardinia - Business And Commerce
Sardinia's currency (as a part of Italy) is now the Euro, but in some rural areas Sardinians still unofficially refer to su Francu (or lo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Levant: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Levant - The Bronze Age
The first cities started developing in southern Mesopotamia during the 4th millennium BC. With these ties of religion began to replace ti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sardinia: Encyclopedia Ii - Sardinia - Geography
Sardinia has an area of 24,090 km2 and a population of 1.65 million. Sardinia is an autonomous region of Italy. The regional capital is C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Methos: Encyclopedia Ii - Methos - Quotes
-"Live, Highlander. Grow stronger. Fight another day." -"What do you expect? Einstein? Freud? Buddha? Sorry Joe, I'm just a guy." -" I wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Methos: Encyclopedia Ii - Methos - Really Old Guy
Methos claimed that he was about 5000 years old. His birth date and place are lost, because he couldn't remember the exact details. Howev...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ancient Egypt: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ancient Egypt - Middle Kingdom
Around 2055 BCE, Mentuhotep II from Thebes ended this period of unrest and united the country again. He installed a new administration an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Criticism Of The Bible: Encyclopedia Ii - Criticism Of The Bible - The Bible Vs. History
The Biblical creation story, up to and including the Great Flood is generally regarded as pure myth both by most scientists and most reli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Exodus: Encyclopedia Ii - Exodus - Authorship
Like the remainder of the torah, traditional and religious attitudes are that the book is the work of Moses himself. Also like the remain...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Akhenaten: Encyclopedia Ii - Akhenaten - Depictions Of The Pharaoh And His Family
Styles of art that flourished during this short period are markedly different from other Egyptian art, bearing a variety of affectations,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Manetho: Encyclopedia Ii - Manetho - Life And Work
Although no sources for the dates of his life and death remain, his work is usually associated with the reigns of Ptolemy I Soter (323-28...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Monotheism: Encyclopedia Ii - Monotheism - In Hinduism
In Hinduism, views are broad and range from monism, dualism, pantheism, panentheism, alternatively called monistic theism by some scholar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Monotheism: Encyclopedia Ii - Monotheism - In Ayyavazhi
Though Ayyavazhi, a religion originating in the 19th century, is a monistic religion it also accepts almost all deities in Hinduism. In t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amun: Encyclopedia Ii - Amun - Decline
After the Twentieth dynasty moved the centre of power back to the old capital from Thebes, the powerbase of Amun's cult had been removed,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Monotheism: Encyclopedia Ii - Monotheism - Comparison To Polytheism
In contrast, see polytheism, which holds that there are many gods. Dualism teaches that there are two independent divine beings or eterna...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Moses: Encyclopedia Ii - Moses - Moses In Media
Moses appears as the central character in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille movie, The Ten Commandments. He is played by Charlton Heston. DeMille...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canaan: Encyclopedia Ii - Canaan - Etymology
In linguistic terms, Canaanite refers to the common ancestor of closely related Semitic languages including Hebrew, and Ugaritic, and was...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canaan: Encyclopedia Ii - Canaan - Canaan In Mesopotamian Inscriptions
Canaan is mentioned in a document from the 18th century BC found in the ruins of Mari, a former Sumerian outpost in Syria. Apparently Can...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Generations Of Adam: Encyclopedia Ii - Generations Of Adam - The Names And Ages
The names, as they appear in the masoretic text, are traditionally given certain translations: The Sethite line also gives ages, and date...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apep: Encyclopedia Ii - Apep - Battles With Ra
Tales of Apep's battles against Ra were elaborated during the New Kingdom. Since nearly everyone can see that the sun is not attacked by ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amun: Encyclopedia Ii - Amun - Creator
Gradually, as god of air, he came to be associated with the breath of life, which created the ba, particularly in Thebes. By the First In...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amun: Encyclopedia Ii - Amun - Sun God
As Amun's cult grew bigger, Amun rapidly became identified with the chief God that was worshipped in other areas, Ra-Herakhty, the merged...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Legend Of Osiris And Isis: Encyclopedia Ii - Legend Of Osiris And Isis - The Moon And The Oxyrhynchus
In late Egyptian thought, the righteous dead were sometimes said to become the stars, and thus the moon was occasionally seen as having a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plagues Of Egypt: Encyclopedia Ii - Plagues Of Egypt - Morality
The last plague, if divine, has seemed to many to be a very cruel and unjustifiable punishment against the Egyptians, and is criticised f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hatshepsut: Encyclopedia Ii - Hatshepsut - Names
As with most pharaohs, Hatshepsut had a number of names. Her birth name, or nomen, was Hatshepsut, to which she suffixed the epithet Khen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hebrews: Encyclopedia Ii - Hebrews - Religious Views
Biblically, this term Hebrew biblically refers to all the Children of Eber and in particular the descendants that the Hebrew Bible states...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joseph Hebrew Bible: Encyclopedia Ii - Joseph Hebrew Bible - Differences Of Tradition
There are certain minor points in which the Islamic story differs from the Biblical. In the Qur'an the brothers ask Jacob to let Joseph g...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Legend Of Osiris And Isis: Encyclopedia Ii - Legend Of Osiris And Isis - The Coffin And The Acacia
At the time the myth initially developed, it was believed that the gods had emerged from under the acacia tree owned by Iusaaset, Atum's ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Criticism Of The Bible: Encyclopedia Ii - Criticism Of The Bible - Internal Consistency
There are several places in the Bible in which it seems to contradict itself, apparantly presenting, amongst other difficulties, differen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hebrews: Encyclopedia Ii - Hebrews - Religious Views
Biblically, the term Hebrew refers to all the Children of Eber, and in particular the descendants that the Hebrew Bible states the patria...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Exodus: Encyclopedia Ii - The Exodus - Biblical Narrative
The Israelites had moved from the land of Canaan into Egypt when Joseph was prime minister of Egypt. After the death of Joseph and a chan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sardinia: Encyclopedia Ii - Sardinia - Language
The most spoken languages in Sardinia are Italian and Sardinian, a Romance language of Latin origin, but with an obscure Pre-Roman elemen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sardinia: Encyclopedia Ii - Sardinia - Business And Commerce
Sardinia's currency (as a part of Italy) is now the Euro, but in some rural areas Sardinians and towns, above all Cagliari, still unoffic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Methos: Encyclopedia Ii - Methos - Mild-mannered Watcher
Under the guise of Watcher Adam Pierson, Methos hid his secret. He had seen the rise and fall of many civilizations, including the Egypti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Methos: Encyclopedia Ii - Methos - The Return Of Methos
Methos returned in the episodes "Finale: Part 1" and "Finale Part: 2". This marked him as one of the regular characters in the series, a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Methos: Encyclopedia Ii - Methos - Grey World
Although Methos' friendship with Duncan was officially over, it didn't prevent the two from interacting where Methos would talk to Duncan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Methos: Encyclopedia Ii - Methos - Being Old And Wise
When Methos returned again, the following year in the episode of "Indiscretion", he found himself being chased by an obssesive immortal n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Methos: Encyclopedia Ii - Methos - The Alternative Version
Once when Duncan MacLeod was killed temporarily, he was thrown into another reality where Amanda was evil and got killed, Tessa was alive...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Moses: Encyclopedia Ii - Moses - Moses In Judaism
A wealth of stories and additional information about Moses can be found in the Jewish genre of rabbinical exegesis known as Midrash, as w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hyksos: Encyclopedia Ii - Hyksos - Who Were The Hyksos?
The term "Hyksos" derives from the expression heka khasewet (Rulers of Foreign Lands), used in Egyptian texts like the Turin King List to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hyksos: Encyclopedia Ii - Hyksos - Extent And Nature Of Hyksos Rule
The Hyksos kingdom, then, was centered in the eastern Nile Delta and Middle Egypt and remained limited in size, never extending south int...   » Read the article

Article - Popular Pages Sitemap Vii - H
This is a sitemap for Popular Pages VII - H . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word. ...   » Read the article