Wednesday 31 December 2008

Queen Hatshepsut is Queen Sheba

The following is a quasi-simultaneous equation proof that Queen Sheba who visited Solomon of Israel in circa 950 BC was Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt's 18th dynasty.

I am now going public with the following claims:

'Hatshepsut' means "The Sign of the Sheba of the South";

The temple she built at Deir el-Bahari was constructed to reflect the words of Song of Solomon 2:14, 'You are in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs'; and

The Tanaach's ('Old Testament') Queen Sheba of Ophir (I Kings 9:28 and 10:1) equates with Josephus Flavius' 'Egypt and Ethiopia' and the New Testament's 'Queen of the South'.

This sets the original Velikovsky thesis that 'Sheba is Hatshepsut' into a quasi mathematical framework like three sets of simultaneous equations solving unknown variables that appear in different sets of data.

A crucial development has been the announcement of "Punt merchandise discovered by Kathryn Bard and Rodolfo Fattovich on Egypt's Red Sea coast." Clearly this indicates it had been shipped bound for Lower Egypt from Lebanon or Israel.

A second and rather surprising development from a re-reading of the Hebrew text and grammar is the identification of Ophir (= Africa) as the geographical origin for Queen Sheba as stated in the Biblical record (actual Hebrew text).

These two new developments have pushed this framework into the position of virtual proof that Sheba and Hatshepsut are the same queen.

Egyptologists generally explain that 'Hat-shep-sut', or their preferred 'Hat-sheps-ut', means 'Foremost of Noble Women'. I agree 'Hat' can mean 'foremost' but it also means 'Sign', 'Leader' or 'Prophet'. However, if 'sheps' is translated "a noble", the suffix 'ut' being a determinative for a female plural, it possibly requires one to read what is actually an Egyptian 'sheb' as 'shep'. Quite often this is an issue because Egyptians then and now experience difficulty saying 'p' and tend to pronounce it as 'b'. However, whatever the reading really should be, the hieroglyphic determinative of a seated person strongly suggests that the Biblical word sheb sometimes translated "sit", is a better basis for studying the etymology of "sheb" as in 'Hat-Sheba-Sut' or "shep" as in 'Hat-Shepa-Sut'. It's also a better basis than a reading sepa (soper, scribe) which was our initial premise. As it happens, our initial premise can still be supported by Petrie’s discovery, a century ago, of the Office of the Records Keeper, the ‘Ra Shepses’. In the 'Ra Shepses', Petrie also reads 'p' rather than 'b'.

Whichever way we look at the etymology of shepa, seba, shepa or sepa administrators are normally seated (root word s-b) at a desk issuing or writing (root word s-p) orders, laws, decrees and other administrative communications. However, if the root word sheb was indicated by the ancient Egyptian scribe then the meaning 'noble woman' (presumably sheps) becomes even more dubious. It now seems far better to acknowledge this woman was the queen who administered (as in sheb) Egypt and Ethiopia.

Egypt and Ethiopia (including Sudan), constituting the ancient civilisation of Africa (Ophir, Auphirah), are 'South' of Israel of course. Hence the meaning 'Sut' as in Sut-en-bat (South and North) of ancient Egypt (Suten = Sudan). Thus a Sheba was one who ruled or oversaw a dominion, city, empire or group of soldiers (e.g., King David's Yo-Sheba-dech, II Samuel 23:8). Therefore, 'Hat-sheb-sut' means 'The Sign of the Queen (Law-maker) of the South' (variables; sign, queen, south).

Hatshepsut-Sheba was so awestruck by Solomon's temple that she ordered the construction of a copy specially located in a site (Deir el-Bahari, near Thebes) to reflect the words in Song of Solomon 2:14 (variables; clefts in the rock, secret tunnels, stairs).

Josephus Flavius, Gospels of Matthew/Luke and I Kings 9:28 to I Kings 10:1, all refer to the same geographical location (variables; Egypt/Ethiopia, The South, Auphirah-Ophir=Africa=Egypt/Ethiopia).

Finally, the Ethiopians named their Queen Sheba as 'Makara'. Hatshepsut's alternative name is Maat-Kare (pronounced Makare). In the Bible, “Shammah .. the Hararite" (2 Samuel 23:11) is Shammah the Harodite in 2 Samuel 23:25 and Hadar son of Ishmael in Genesis 25:15 is Hadad in I Chronicles 1:30. There are several other Biblical examples of this mistake showing that corresponding transcription errors confusing similar letters like resh and daleth in Hebrew and Phoenician occurred when the Ethiopians transcribed Hatshepsut's other hieroglyphic title i.e., 'Maatkare' or 'Makare' from Egyptian into the Ethiopian 'Makeda'.

The null hypothesis is that if we can find the body or mummy of Hatshepsut, then she cannot be Queen Sheba because this woman became a saint when she stopped believing her pagan Egyptian gods in favour of Jehovah of Israel. It is accepted that the bodies of saints are not disturbed on the basis of Rest-in-Peace. If Hatshepsut is not Sheba, then someone in Antiquity wanted to make it look as though she was. That raises even more difficult questions regarding the identity of the queen who built the temple at Deir el-Bahari. The temple was deliberately buried in rubble by Hatshepsut's successors. Only by 1948, ironically the year of Israel's resurrection, was the temple properly cleared and its hieroglyphs evaluated. Queen Sheba (Queen of the South) is identified in the Gospels as rising at the Resurrection and condemning the Jewish Academy which rejected the Messianic claims of Jesus. If we can identify Hatshepsut as Sheba, there are massive implications. That's probably why so much is invested in disguising her actual identity.

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3 April, 2017

10 comments:

  1. "The null hypothesis is that if we can find the body or mummy of Hatshepsut, then she cannot be Queen Sheba because this woman became a saint when she stopped believing her pagan Egyptian gods in favour of Jehovah of Israel. It is accepted that the bodies of saints are not disturbed on the basis of Rest-in-Peace."

    this appears to me to be a "null" hypothesis.
    It is Not accepted.

    While she mentioned the God of Israel while praising Solomon's wisdom, it was diplomatic protocol that she do so. The language she shoce is congruent with the language found on her other inscriptions, which she dedicated to the gods of egypt, again according to proper protocol.

    Her mummy has indeed been found. She is the queen of Egypt and Ethiopia that Joesphus mentioned, the queen of the south that Jesus mentioned, the one and only Hatshepsut, hidden from history and restored.

    I believe Jesus was referring to her restoration to history in the last days - which has now happened due to archaeology.

    In Jesus' time, Egypt still officially denied her existence as King of Egypt, she had been omitted from the King lists and her obelisks had been covered over.

    Neither Jesus nor Joseph mentioned anything about mummies 'dissappearing' when later generations might decide to bestow "sainthood". That is not logical, and would lead us to miss the very archaeological validation Jesus spoke of.

    Ultimate resurrection and sainthood are matters of religious belief that occurred later, and cannot rightly be used to undo the archaeological fulfillment that Jesus and Josephus indicated.

    Her mummy has indeed been found, and identified as one of two candidates buried in inscribed coffins with her name on them

    DNA will be the final arbiter in this.

    We can find the Mummy of Hatshepsut, we have indeed found the Mummy of Hatshepsut, and she is the Queen of Sheba. Period.

    The rising in the last generation has happened, at least archaeologically. She has been restored to her proper place in history.

    The finding of the Mummy and the restoiration of her legacy is the archaeological fulfillment of the Jesus Queen of the South prophecy.

    As such, I find the etymology of the South in her name interesting. ALso, being queen of THebes, the city name could also be read Sheba.

    The archaeological logic of Velikovsky is unassailable. There should be no qualms about her mummy being found, it is validation.

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    1. And then they did find her "mummy", they didn't check it with closer relatives/dna, they based it off a tooth. Archeologists happier with a quick answer, rather than the right one. Some things never change....maybe someday. Nicaule=Makeda=Maatkare=Michal. Then Saul was her father, and scribes in the bible have alot of explaining to do. To bad they arent being resurrected! Wouldn't deserve it anyway.

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    2. As long as it's based of of DNA and not a tooth!

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    3. As long as it's based on DNA and not just a tooth!!!

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  4. The Sheb or Shept in Egypt was a judge. The Sep is the throne as a judgement seat; Sab is Sabean (Saba capital of Nubia-Sudan), and has a name as old as time, Seb or Sebt (Sept) or the dog star Sirius. In Egypt, Shept or Seb is an order of persons belonging to a religious house i.e it came from the south. The God Set or Sut has Epithets including "Lord of the Desert" and "Ruler of the South" as he was originally a god of Upper Egypt (the south) and the barren lands beyond Egypt's borders.

    In Egypt, the ancient order of the judges (priestly-rulers), the Shept, had been superseded by monarchy in the monumental times. They were the worshipers of the child and the mother as Sut-typhon (Predynastic). The Queen of Sheba (hatshepsut) is said to have cast away her pagan gods in favor of Jah or Yahweh, which is clearly a revolt against the religion of the time like it was in future time of Akhenaten and his god Aten. Their (anyone who opposed against the traditional gods) reigns were marked by the customary erasure of their names from the monuments, and the consequent blank in the history. However, these conflicts were internal and caused by the rival religions. This was the reason why they tried to erase Hatshepsut from history because she was "The Foremost (House) Queen (Law-Maker/Priest-Ruler/Administrator) of the God Set (Sudan/Nubia/Nehesy)". This is what the Egyptologist are hiding from the masses. Egypt biggest enemies were themselves. An inward family feud between religious cults! Hatshepsut knew Nubia was the mother of Egypt but it was Punt or Ta.neter who was it's Grandmother, as civilization started from the South or down the Nile Rivers

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  5. None of those accurate. She will rise in final generation. She will. It just not perfect time to do that.some matter need to be left untold. Because it only lead to confusion. LET SAY SHE HERSELF WIPE HER NAME FROM EGYPTIAN HISTORY.she herself destroy all evidence regarding her identity.She herself damned her Kingdom into dust. Hmm complicated as a mother and ex wife to King Solomon. Past done no need repeat.She is wise woman. Not ordinary female. Behold some one greater than Solomon is here in final generation

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  6. My opinion are simple, Hatshepsut aka Queen Sheba aka Bilikisu Sungbo still alive
    Some where on earth. Waiting to restore
    Her lost kingdom . She ruin all her kingdom
    She herself will restore her kingdom.
    Logic have no place in magical kingdom.She
    Exist in many culture in many different name and disguise. She not need logical theory or wild assumption.Because she is myth and legend

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