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Was Psalm 104 Written by Pharaoh Akhenaten?

Was Psalm 104 written by a real King David of Israel, or was it "borrowed" from the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten's Hymn to Aten?

What follows is a comparison of Akhenaten's Hymn to the Sun (Aten) and Psalm 104 from The Bible, purportedly written by David hundreds of years later:

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... open the Bible to Psalm 104, the great manifesto of God's all-encompassing power, and read how He created grass for cattle to eat, and trees for birds to nest in, and the sea for ships to sail and fish to swim in:

Bless the Lord . . . you who coverest thyself with light as with a garment . . .

Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; . . .

He causeth 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 ariseth, (the beasts) gather themselves together . . .

There go the ships: there is that leviathan (whale), whom thou hast made to play therein.

And then among the remains of Amarna culture you read the Hymn to the Aten, purportedly written by Akhenaten himself, which says:

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. (trans. James P. Allen)

The similarity is simply astounding. Comparing these passages, who could argue against some form of cultural exchange moving from Egypt to Israel—and, given the chronology, we must suppose the sharing took place in that direction—how can we avoid the conclusion that the ancient Hebrew who wrote Psalm 104 has somehow borrowed from Akhenaten's Hymn to the Aten?

http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/1320hist&civ/chapters...

More comparisons, other translations, arguments, and verifications can be found here:

http://www.palmyria.co.uk/superstition/akhenaten.h...

http://meafar.blogspot.com/2010/09/psalm-104-and-a...

http://kemet.250x.com/psalm104.html

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  • 10 years ago
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    Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon wrote one whole chapter of the Bible. (Daniel 4) Let the Pharaoh have his song! Music didn't start with David. For sure he had some pop tunes on his play list and tweaked the lyrics and undoubtedly the arrangements to his own style. Meanwhile, Asaph wrote many of the Psalms, a couple from Moses were included in the collection, and many others were written after David's death.

    Today we see that:

    "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded"was harmonized by J.S. Bach from a pornograhic minstrel tune.

    The Star Spangled Banner came from an old drinking tune.

    Some of today's Satanist congregations use Christian hymns in their worship services.

    "Cleanse Me," a famous dance tune, is currently our theme song at prayer meeting.

    Source(s): Why waste a great tune? You should hear my student's Christianized version of John Lennon's "Imagine" !
  • 4 years ago

    Moses is plural, as in tutmos19 or ahmose57 (book of amos). Pharaoh's didnt exist. Kings. U may call them kings. Gen16 lets ya know, valley of the kings, & rhamses, & Egypt"are favorites" or the "inheritance. Law of moses=law of the kings. Babel bab=gate, b el=god. Nebekenzzer, the sumerian god enki, and bolivian god, the sun god, the amen (lookitup), look VERY similar. Remember phoenix, reborn from the womb (blackhole~in orions belt), every 500 years, when all planets align. Yeshua (joshua~imhotep), ahkenaten, jesus, same guy, 1500yrs (3 [days~cycles]]×500) apart. 3000bc, 1500bc.. stargates, narrow 5 min equinox timeline, pyramids on all other planets, mayan 144000 day calendar, a bowl, wiped clean every 12500 years. 7 pyramids, 7 point crown, all align to orion, equidistant spaced alng equatorial belt,=tesla energy=straight&narrow jacobs ladder (gen38), mercury lakes, toriodial magnetosphere, Ruby capstone,... jesus is the stone the builders rejected, the capstone, the cornerstone to the whole gospel, a living stone to testify as a witness to the world the Wonder inherent in his handiwork, and is now accepting applicants for the position of 1 in 144000 firstfruit chosen few to dwell In his throne to reign forever. Who's with me

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