Curse Of King Tut

George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert -- Lord Carnarvon -- had previously consulted "Cheiro" (Count Louis le Warner Hamon, 1866-1936), a palmist and fortune teller. Following desecration of Tut's Tomb, Cheiro sent a psychic warning to the Earl. Cheiro had been in occult communication with one Meketaten, daughter of Akhenaten, who may have been the father of Tutankhamun. "No relics must be removed! Otherwise the Earl would die!"

But it was too late. Lord Carnarvon had already sequestered some items. In April 1923, he sickened and died. Egyptian newspapers quickly spread the story that the Earl had been killed by the spirit of King Tut. A panic ensued amongst collectors of Egyptian antiquities. In droves, packages were sent anonymously to various museums. Tutankhamun Terror spread worldwide.

A Madame Fraya warned: "The science of the ancient Egyptians was quite advanced." Carnarvon, she intimated, had most assuredly been killed by the pharoah's "Ka" -- his ghost.

There followed more mysterious deaths. In September 1923, the Earl's half-brother died unexpectedly. Jay Gould, railroad magnate, fell dead soon after visiting Tut's tomb. A French Egyptologist, Georges Benedite, died not long after violating the burial chamber. The Egyptian Bey, Ali Kemel Fahmy, was shot dead by his wife soon after daring to touch Tutankhamun's treasures.

The list of eerie Tut deaths is long. A profound fear gripped the world. Movies dealing with the "curse of the mummy" began to appear.

Aten, Amun... Amen

In the long-ago times of Egypt, Yuya and Tuya were the parents of Tiye. She, in turn, became wife to Amenhotep III, father of Akhenaten, the "heretic" king.

Amenhotep III also was related to Tutankamun. Some say he sired Tut; others say Akhenaten was the father.

The supreme god had been Amun, but when Akhenaten, Amenhotep IV, became pharoah, he "staged the ritual regicide of the old supreme god Amun, and ordered the defacing of Amun's temples throughout Egypt, and of all the old gods. The word for 'gods' (plural) was proscribed..." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atenism)

Replacing Amun was Aten, a monotheistic Sun god. Amun had been a deification of air. To signify the upheaval, Amenhotep IV became known as Akhenaten. The young Tut was called, Tutankhaten: "the living image of Aten." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amun)

Akhenaten's abrupt break away from Amun and henotheism "has lead some to think he has some connection to the biblical character of Moses, although what that connection is, is a matter of some considerable dispute." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aten) At least one source has Akhenaten being, in fact, Moses. (http://www.shout.net/~bigred/LostArk.html)

Unfortunately, disasters such as plagues, famines, and possible comet collision(s) with Earth (http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Ragnarok.html) associated catastrophe with the new god Aten. The people believed deserting Amun for Aten had lead to these punishments. "Akhenaten must be exiled, to appease Amun!" This may be the factual basis for the biblical Exodus: Akhenaten being overthrown, and King Tut, significantly renamed Tutankhamun ("the living image of Amun"), his replacement. If this is so, it casts new light upon the origin of the Jews and their reputed historical claim to Israel.

Roots Of Sin

The original man, Adam, had been, according to one source, "the envoy of the moon." (See Tutankhamun: The Exodus Conspiracy by Andrew Collins & Chris Ogilvie-Herald. London: Virgin Books, 2002. ISBN: 1-85227-972-9) The prophet Abraham, according to oral tradition, had been born in Urfa, in southeast Turkey. He was a follower of the moon god, "Sin." Akhenaten/Moses received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, meaning mountain "of sin" or "of the moon." The biblical golden calf connects with the horns of the bull -- crescent-shaped and denoting a phase of the moon. There is, write Collins & Ogilvie-Herald (op. cit.), "a clear connection between the worship of the moon god and the roots of the Jewish faith." The "face of Yahweh" means, in other words, the full moon. Crescents signify Yahweh, Sin, and other Semitic moon gods. The crescent also, ironically, forms an outright symbol of the Muslim religion.

Under Tutankamun, in consequence of disasters following replacement of Amun by Aten, the "polluted" priests of Aten and their followers, as well as Asiatic nomads (the Habiru), were expelled from Egypt. Akhenaten/Moses would have been a follower of the solar god, but the Habiru would have been rooted in worship of the moon god. So, when Akhenaten/Moses went away, up into Mount Sinai, it would make sense for fearful Habiru to have reverted to worship of the moon god, in the form of a golden calf.

A trace of Judaism's Egyptian beginnings is seen in Psalm 104, seeming to be a re-write of the "Hymn to the Aten."

How many are your deeds,
    Though hidden from sight,
    O Sole God beside whom there is none!
    You made the earth as you wished, you alone,
    All peoples, herds, and flocks;
    All upon earth that walk on legs,
    All on high that fly on wings,
    The lands of Khor and Kush,
    The land of Egypt.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hymn_to_the_Aten)

If present-day Israel had been given by God to Akenaten/Moses, and not to "the Jews," that would call into question Zionist claims to the territory. What if the Pentateuch account is historically slanted? Suppose an alternate historical account had been found?

A Contradictory Story

As mentioned, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon, in 1922, had unearthed papyri documents in Tutankhamun's tomb. Both had at first publicly aknowledged the find. Later, however, mention of the papers vanished.

1922 was an awkward time for the fledgling Israel. (See "Start Of Israel," http://www.shout.net/~bigred/StartOfIsrael.html) A challenge to biblical claims, coming from the amazing discovery of an ancient Egyptian tomb and documents therein, could have upset the applecart.

So, if Collins & Ogilvie-Herald's (op. cit.) evidence is correct, it looks like an historical cover-up has occurred. Why else would Howard Carter, stymied by bureaucrats, have made a furious threat to the British Consulate? "Get those bureaucrats off my back, or I will publish the papyri documents, giving the true account of the Exodus!"

Given a cover-up of the Tut documents, a second look at the "Curse Of King Tut" is in order. Which is more likely? A series of deaths of persons connected to the documents caused by a "mummy's curse"? Or politically-based murders, designed to prevent the true facts from coming to light? Later, a false trail, a "mummy's curse" legend, could have been tacked on, to muddy the waters.

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