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Moses the Egyptian
Before I Arrived in Egypt, I had no thought of conversion to another faith.
Once there, at the base of Cheops, I could feel the greatness of humanity, the power of forces that existed for millennia.
I was convinced,
Moses the Egyptian had a contribution to
The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism. After having stood on the ground
Moses trod, I could feel the origins of organized monotheism exported
to the Sinai after his expulsion from Egypt.
M.L. Randles
Highway to Mt. Sinai –– Moses-Land not Grace-land
On
the highway to Mt. Sinai: Not Graceland
Moses took this same road to find the buning bush and golden tablets.
Without his going to tell it on the mountain, the Arc of the Covenant
would have been empty, there would be a gaping hole in Western Theology
–– everything would have been much simpler, Yet on the Sinai,
little has changed since that frightful encounter with God and Moses.
Egyptian king Akhenaten creator of the one god concept, the spiritual/political father of Moses the Egyptian
Pyramids of Cheops (Khufu) vicissitudes
of memory
Artist interpretation of Khufu
Sketch of the Cheops on a hazy afternoon in March of 1996 -- The vantage
point is undefined, the vision of the pyramids was at the time clear;
I saw what I saw at the moment. When visiting the following day the vision
was gone. This thumbnail sketch is the only remnant of my encounter with
the power of Egypt. Moses is a figure that stands at the base of monotheism,
foundation stone to all other movements throughout time. Moses, however
is not of history, but of legend, oral memory.
It is posed that Moses was an active agent (Priest) for the
Egyptian king Akhenaten (1360-1340 B.C.E.). This began a cycle in which
every "counter-religion," established itself as monotheistic
truth, denouncing all others as false. This tradition continues today.
