THE GENESIS OF MONOTHEISM

Monotheistic ideas didn’t come about originally from the ancient Semites, it had originally come about in ancient Egypt with the coming of a Pharaoh named Akhenaton. Akhenaton ruled over Egypt for a span of fourteen years, from 1352 BC to 1338 BC. After the end of his reign, the city that he had created – Akhenaton (named after him), was destroyed due to the ideas his social and religious institutions professed. He was more of a political and religious reformer, who unfortunately did not have a good grounding of power. He took the title of the ‘Prophet of Ra-Horakhte’ (prophet of Ra of the Horizon).
Take a look at Psalm 104 in the Bible:
Praise the LORD, O my soul.
He wraps himself in light as with a garment…
…And lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters…
He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and . . . the trees
Where the birds make their nests; as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; . . .
(As) the sun arises, (the beasts) gather themselves together . . .
There go the ships: there is that leviathan (whale), whom thou hast made to play therein

Now view this excerpt from the ‘Hymn of the Aten’, said to be written by Akhenaton himself:
When the land grows bright and you are risen from the Akhet (horizon) and shining in the sun-disk by day, . . .
All flocks (are) at rest on their grasses, trees and grasses flourishing;
Birds flown from their nest, their wings in adoration of your life-force;
All flocks prancing on foot, all that fly and alight living as you rise for them;
Ships going downstream and upstream too, every road open at your appearance;
Fish on the river leaping to your face, your rays even inside the sea.

The Israelites are said to have got many of their religious philosophy from the Egyptians. It is a well known fact that Moses, the man who freed the Israelites from bonded labor in Egypt, was well versed with Egyptian Paganism. He had lived as a prince in the royal family of Egypt. It was a necessary custom for the sons of the royal families to be initiated into the inner mysteries of their religion. It is also said in the Bible that Moses “was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds”. Therefore, it is for certain that Moses was well versed with astrology, math and the other sciences, with which the Egyptians were very well developed in.
Everyone knows of the story of Moses as an infant who was found in the Nile. But surprisingly, there is a myth prior to this by more than a 1000 years, in about 2350 BC involving Sargon - king of Akkad, Egypt.
Gary Beaver states:
“When researching the biblical account of The Parting of the Red Sea, I came across a little known Egyptian account of something that is most interesting and was under the safe keeping of Sir E.A. Wallis Budge at the BM, a reference to a Fourth Dynasty priest named Tchatcha-em-ankh in his unpublished work on Nectanebus II, the last native Egyptian pharaoh:
There is a story of ancient days, when the Pharaoh Snefru ruled. It appears this King, who was father to Khufu who the Greeks call Cheops, was subject to fugue. On a day in summer, falling in low spirits, he called on his Court to find some means whereby his heart might be lightened.
Failing in the more usual remedies of song and gossip, the nobles called on the assistance of the wisest man in Egypt of that day, a priest and writer of books, one Tchatcha-em-ankh. The priest advised the King thus:
“Go, Majesty, to the lake near the palace and there sail upon it in the boat which I have prepared for thee.”
So the King went to the great ornamental lake where the ibis waded in the shallows and there discovered a craft unlike any other, graven with the forms of fabulous beasts and leafed with beaten gold. The paddles of this craft were of ebony, inlaid with gold and in place of oarsmen were twenty female virgins, the most delicately beautiful in all of Egypt. Tchatcha-en-ankh had caused these young women to be dressed in netting, like that of sea fishermen, so that the most intimate aspects of their bodies were at once concealed and revealed.
When the King entered the boat, these nubile women manned the oars and sang sweetly to him while they rowed him hither and tither. And Seneferu, watching the fluid movement of their bodies beneath the netting, became aroused; and with arousal, his heart too rose up… It seems that the leader of the nubile group, unaccustomed to rowing, managed somehow to tangle herself up in her hair; and in an attempt to free herself, lost an ornament of new turquoise, which fell into the water and sank. She ceased to row and the others, following her example, ceased to row as well.
Despite the distractions, Seneferu noticed that the craft had stopped and enquired as to the reason. When the girl told him of the loss of her ornament, he promised that it would be restored to her forthwith and called for the sage Tchatcha-em-ankh who, you will recall, was the originator of the divertissement.

Now Tchatcha-em-ankh was… a priest and a writer, both of which might indicate he was a sorcerer as well; and such seems to have been the case. For on hearing the problem, he spoke certain hekau (which is to say, Words of Power) and a great miracle occurred.
On the command of Tchatcha-em-ankh, one portion of the water of the lake went up upon the other, like stones in a building, leaving the bed of the lake dry.
The virgins were fearful of this wall of water, which towered four and twenty cubits, and even Pharaoh glanced about nervously. But Tchatcha-em-ankh walked beneath it dry shod and found the ornament lying upon a potsherd. When he had returned it to the maiden, he then caused the water-wall to break, the water to fall and the lake to return to its former condition.”
The similarity between this ancient tale and the biblical miracle is plain to see.”