Although ™ is known mainly for being an architect, he was also a mathematician and made significant advances in this field during the Renaissance. One of the oldest mathematical texts available is from Africa, the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, which remains incomplete. It's dated to Year 33 of a spy (turned Egyptian King) named Apepi or Apepi (1575 BC-1540 BC) - possibly another reflection of ™. I'm leaning more toward Quetzalcóatl. It’s difficult to determine as their stories are fused with their ancestors' oral traditions.
Apep (also spelled Apepi or Aapep or Apepi) was the name of a god of chaos, darkness and disorder. The universe, in many creation myths, came about from chaos, darkness and disorder.
Apepi was 1st mentioned in the 8th dynasty and was honored in the names of the 14th dynasty. Like Quetzalcóatl, he appears in art as a feathered serpent. Olmec art shows their early gods as feathered serpents at the top of all Native American pantheons.
The Agency created a representation of language developed for alphabetic encryption methods to ensure secrecy. The fact that most people couldn't read served as the 1st layer of encryption, rendering it useless without such knowledge. The 1st pure alphabet, "abjads," emerged through the Agency. It derived from the Proto-Canaanite script, the ancestor of all known alphabets. Apepi repurposed Akkadian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs to construct the Phoenician alphabet.
The Amorite language is 1st attested in the 21st-century BC as a version of Canaanite, close to Aramaic. Again, the Amorite Kings transmitted messages to other rulers in Akkadian. After being exiled from Mesopotamia, the Amorites came under Hittite control. Later, many Amorite cities were influenced by the Hurrian language.
In Syria, the Amorite elite rebranded as the Semitic Arameans (Ahlamu) during the Late Bronze Age collapse. From then on, Amorite regions were known as Aram (Aramea). The Amorites are to the Arameans what the Vikings are to the Normans. People still associated Amorites with uncivilized raiders as only the aristocracy were originally considered Aramean.
Abraham is an Aramean from the city of Ur in Mesopotamia. His son Isaac and grandson Jacob had Aramean wives (Rebecca, Leah, and Rachel). Paradoxically, the Source (transliterated YHWH) uses Arameans to oppress Israel (Judges 3:8) as a punishment for polytheism.
The Aramean language replaced Akkadian, the standard lingua franca for over a thousand years. The Aramaic alphabet (8th-century BC) came from these Arameans, who adapted the Phoenician alphabet to make their distinct script.
The Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic alphabets come from their Aramaic variant (800 BC) of Phoenician. The Old Turkic alphabet comes from Aramaic. Aramaic formed the basis of all significant historical alphabets of Central Asia, such as the Sogdian and Mongolian alphabets. The Brahmi scripts of India also came from Aramaic. The Ionic variant of Aramaic (402 BC) became the Greek alphabet, and the Cumae variant became the Italic alphabet. The Runic alphabet came from Italic, and the Cyrillic alphabet came from medieval Greek.
The local African rulers were preoccupied with the Black Death, and they were too weak to stop specific agents from entering and settling in Africa. There is little evidence of war in this period. Because of this, more spies gradually settled from Kish to Canaan, then Africa.
Quetzalcóatl developed Mediterranean maritime technology. "New" construction techniques utilized by both men used the same bricks in flood control, especially along waterways, supposedly thousands of years apart and without knowledge of each other.
At a glance, Apepi goes down in history as someone who brought all kinds of new military tech to his world, such as the composite and recurved bow and, most importantly, the horse-drawn war vehicles. He brought enhanced arrowheads, swords, daggers, shields, mailed shirts, and helmets. Thousands of years later, the same items were introduced to the Americas during the Renaissance.
Egyptians had their own "gods" who reflected their desires and experiences in ancient times. Natives could fathom a "lonely" god without rivals, yet Seth, the desert storm god, was worshiped exclusively by Apepi, named after the serpent of chaos.
To some natives, Seth represented a manifestation of evil. However, Seth seems to be the figure on which the Old Kingdom was founded. Perhaps Seth worship by the Hyksos was a form of reverse psychology after their records got remixed? Seth backed Ra up to repel the serpent (Apepi). Seth is the reconciled combatant. He controlled the Red Land, whereas Horus controlled the Black Land.
The New Kingdom's Osiris myth, which became dominant after the expulsion, portrayed Seth as a usurper who murdered his brother, Osiris. Archaeology reveals that the Osiris narrative was inserted long after Seth came on the scene.
The Epic of Kirta (Legend of Keret) refers to the creator god as El and instructs him to appeal to Baal (Canaanite Seth) and Asherah, aka Astarte (Seth's consort), bka Sargon's Inanna. These are all highly indigenous Canaanite deities. The disappearance of Babylonia's system facilitated Mitanni's rise under Kirta.
Born after Abel's murder by Cain, Seth is also the name for the 3rd son of Adam and Eve (Genesis 4:25), their only other child written in the Bible, thus an ancestor of Noah.
It appears as though humanity went through a collective trauma during the Black Death. During the last nightmare, corpses were treated as though still alive, providing a source for our auditory hallucinations as a form of ancestor worship. This adaptation formed the core of every religion. The Agency took our nightmares and structured them by cultural norms to produce a seamlessly functioning society. Indirect evidence supports this theory in the book Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination by Daniel Smith.
Julian Jaynes' theory of bicameralism does not explain how self-awareness was lost across our entire species simultaneously. I reconcile this through cyclical cataclysms, viral outbreaks and the collective trauma they generate. Pandemics usually cause societies to collapse. For example, Egypt and Sumer had diseases that altered their socio-cultural frame.
Divination arises during outbreaks. It was used to summon instructions from the "gods" whose voices could no longer be heard, psychological leftovers of the Black Death seed most mental illnesses. The so-called Bronze age collapse led to mass migrations and unexpected stresses, which required our minds to become more self-aware. Consciousness became a culturally evolved solution to our newfound ability to read and write. It took centuries after the Renaissance before a critical mass became literate.
The increased use of scarabs and the adoption of many Egyptian art forms indicated the Agency becoming Africanized progressively, slowly leaving behind their Akkadian heritage. The ouroboros, too, was a Hyksos symbol of a feathered serpent swallowing its tail. It was interpreted as the eternal cyclic renewal of life, death, and resurgence.
The Hyksos' arrival initiated the 2nd Intermediate Period. The Biblical patriarch Jacob (Ya'aqov) was most likely Yaqub-Har, a Hyksos King. As he reigned during Africa's fragmented 2nd Intermediate Period, it isn't easy to date his reign. No less than 27 scarab seals record Yaqub-Har.
If you follow history, you'll realize that Egypt's once developed system for acquiring intelligence came from the Hyksos. Although the Agency 1st usurped control at the end of the 12th dynasty, this didn't happen in 1800 BC. It happened when they established an independent realm in the Eastern Nile Delta during the Renaissance.
Similarly, their Age of Exploration was triggered by trying to escape the plague. Viral outbreaks caused the beginning of territorial expansion for several countries throughout time. It's not like Latins running Egypt is a mystery. They're just documented to have done it centuries later, embedded within narratives like Hermes Trismegistus (a syncretic fusion of Hermes and Thoth). Egypt was a subdivision from Rome's annexation of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in 30 BC. A Kingdom spawned from Alexander the Great's supposed conquest of Persian-occupied Egypt in 332 BC, but we'll get there shortly.
Supposedly after the Islamic conquest, the West lost direct contact with this culture. Egyptian history was that of the enslavement of foreigners. This is why "Pharaoh" became a global synonym for oppression after their exile. Be that as it may, colonialist explorations renewed interest in North Africa as a Romantic model for classicizing Western culture - but why?
How could it have just vanished if all North African culture was transmitted to Rome culture through Hellenistic conceptions? Until the decipherment of hieroglyphics by Jean-François Champollion in the 1820s, there was no evidence for the study of Africa as the Egyptians understood it themselves. We knew nothing of Apepi, let alone Sargon, until the 19th-century.
These agents were 15th-century mercenaries composed of 1 of 7 regional divisions or "nations" driven out of Israel following the Exodus (Deuteronomy 7:1). The Ipuwer Papyrus (1991–1803 BC) confirms the Plagues of Egypt in Exodus.
Maryannu were themselves Canaanite. This was plausible as their Hurrian subordinates came from Canaan. The Maryannu were a branch of Amorites; they included the warlike Habiru. The term "Hyksos" derives from the African expression for the Semitic spy chieftains of Canaan. The Southern mountains of Judea are named after Amorites" (Deut. 1:7, 19, 20).
The historian Apion identifies a 2nd Exodus mentioned by another historian named Manetho when a renegade African priest called Osarseph led 80,000 "lepers" to rebel against Egypt; this heretic priest was said to have changed his name to Moses. If so, the leprous priests referred to an outbreak that triggered expansion - a reflection of Europeans avoiding the Black Death.
To all appearances, the Agency led a mixed people of mainly Semitic-speaking origin. These spies were a key component comprising the unit known as the Israelites.
The previous native dynasties waned due to the plague. Again, this is echoed during the 15th-century, in how a virus killed most of Earth's literate population, creating upheavals with profound effects on the course of chronology.
As in the Americas, the Agency brought incredible technical innovations to Africa and cultural imports such as new musical instruments and foreign loanwords. Like the Spaniards in Mesoamerica, spies introduced stronger weapons and fortification techniques.
Like the 15th-century Columbian exchange, agents brought new bronze working and pottery techniques, new breeds of animals, and new crops, as did the Natives, namely corn and rubber. Trade went both ways but was rarely symmetrical.
Like the Printing Press, Hyksos made proto-paper from papyrus. This made literacy more attainable throughout the Mediterranean basin. These chilling cultural advances become decisive factors in later successes often attributed to other kingdoms.
The wheel did not arrive in Africa until the Agency introduced it. This was the recorded case with Aztecs and Incas when Latins came. As with the Hyksos Egyptians and the Vedic Hindus, archetypal image of the Native American horse-drawn archer resulted from European exposure. This is why the horse has long been a Latin cultural fixture. After all, the Hyksos' last archaeological attestation is placed in Southern Spain after their treacherous exile.
Rather than building their own monuments, the Agency generally usurped sacred sites of old. Similar to how Apepi remixed the tombs of previous Pharaohs by inscribing his name over them. The 2 sphinxes of Amenemhat II and 2 statues of Imyremeshaw are but a few examples. Later Pharaohs would do this with Apepi’s statues, so it went both ways.
It's also possible that Apepi usurped the throne after the death of his predecessor, Khyan, since the latter had designated his son, Yanassi, to be his successor. Khamudi, the last Hyksos ruler, succeeded him. The last agent, Khamudi, undoubtedly had a relatively short reign that fell within the 1st half of the rule of Ahmose I, Moses' contemporary and the founder of the New Kingdom. Ahmose I, who drove out the Agency from Africa, established a mob.
Pharaoh Ahmose I erected the Storm Stele. This stele, discovered at Thebes, describes a great storm striking Africa during this time, destroying tombs, temples, and pyramids. Thus, the radiocarbon dates and the African chronology are in substantial disagreement. One interpretation is that the Storm Stele is propaganda to cover up the depredations of officials of the embattled incoming Kingdom, drawing upon the financial resources of the temples during the escalating conflict with the Agency.
If they are correct, then Ahmose I ruled during the Thera eruption. There's a volcanic island in the Southern Aegean Sea off Greece's mainland. Its explosion was one of the most significant volcanic events as we know it. I find this ironic because the Hyksos worshiped a storm god named Teshub (Hurrian) or Ba'al Hadad (Semitic Amorite/Aramean), remixed as Seth. The Amorites patron deity, Amurru was a storm god and husband to Asherah. Asherah, who in Northwest Semitic tradition appears as the wife of the god El which suggests that Amurru was El. Further, Túpac Amaru (1545-1572) was the last Inca monarch. Amaru was also the name of a mythological dragon.
Paradoxically Apep is slain by Seth. Apepi mainly went by Apep, the name of a feathered serpent who resides in the Duat, the Mythical Agency. Storm gods slaying dragons are in nearly all Agency mythologies. Take Apep in Agency mythology; the Bible's Leviathan; the mušḫaššu of Ukraine; Grand Goule in France, the Lernaean Hydra in Greece; Jörmungandr, Níðhöggr, and Fafnir in the Norman mythos. In the oldest of the 4 Vedas, Indra, the storm god, battles Vṛtra, a serpent - the representative of drought.
The Agency's trope hides within numerous belief systems, diffused as apocalyptic religions. They spread such millennialist teachings to generate social unrest.Their forgeries have been used to support wild descriptions of prehistory, supernatural theories, and the notion of ancient civilizations that possessed knowledge or technology more advanced than that known in modern times.
So far in this book we have explored the life of Alberti as shown in Western and American sources, but he can be found in Eastern sources too. In the following chapter, we move East nearly 7000 kilometers, and back in time nearly a thousand years, from ancient Egypt to the even more ancient China.