A LIGHT SHINING IN THE DARKNESS
"Cast Your Bread Upon The Waters"
(Ecclesiastes 11:1)
Proving Midian Is Mitanni
UPDATED MAY. 17, 2026. 6:25 P.M.
Calculating by Conventional Biblical Chronology (basically, from the building of King Solomon's Temple), the Balal-Peor-&-Balaam incident had to happen c. 1410 BC, after the Israelites left the Sinai wilderness. Carefully consider the passages from Numbers 22:4-5
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"And Balak the son of Zippor (cp. w/first 2 syllables in Zippor-ah's name! Thus, "Balak son of the Noble House") was king of Moab at that time. And he sent messengers unto Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the river, to the land of the children of his people, to call him saying ...."
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Though not specifically named on the map below (yet you may confirm it), Pethor (black star) is located at a close proximity to Haran (red star) & Carchemish (encircled. The "city/fortress of Chemosh". Remember that the Moabites worshipped Chemosh: Nu. 21:29; 1 Ki. 11:7; Jer. 48:7. But more on that later). This geographical vicinity, during this particular time, was part of the Mitanni empire. It was to the northeast of Moab, while the so-call Biblical Midian was in an almost complete opposite direction. Balak is a Mitannian, and the Moabites are worshipping one of the same gods as the Mitanni: Chemosh. The other god worshipped by the Moabites is Set (Num. 24:17). This is an accurate contemporary picture of the political situation of its day: The Hyksos worshipped Set. Certain Mitanni elements were allied with Ahmose I when he expelled the Hyksos from Egypt. Then, after the treaty, with pharaoh as their supreme overlord, the Mitanni are in turn lesser lords over the Moabites. (Egypt's imperial hegemony can be said to anticipate the feudalistic systems that will eventually emerge in the distant future). And from whence did the Mitanni import the worship of this god Chemosh? Chemosh is a variant of Chemmis, which was the Greek name for the 2nd nome of Lower Egypt, also called Akhbit (transliterated as Ꜣḫ-bjt or Akh-bit), alluding to the 'papyrus marsh of Lower Egypt'. So who is Chemosh? None other than Khem, or Min, of course. Proof? Your so-called Biblical-Archaeological Scholars say that Chemosh was associated with Ashtaroth. And Ashtaroth was considered another form of the goddess Qedesh, (also associated with the Biblical toponym Kadesh. Num. 13:26, 14:40-50). Observe figure 2 below (and do not fail to note how closely the goddess resembles Hathor). Now, do the math. For as I said, "I will offer you the water, but you must pour your own cup.".
I'm sure this appears paradoxical, for how can "certain Mitanni elements" be allied with Ahmose I before the treaty existed! The word Mitanni signifies a confederacy composed of multiple ethnicities, the majority of which were the Hurrians (Horites in the Bible). Compare this model with the United States. Even though all of its citizens are called Americans, many of them express anti-American views and would, if possible, expatriate to countries more compatible with their political ideology, or spend the majority of their time abroad. Some Hurrians from the Mitanni confederacy were collaborators with the Egyptians possibly since the Middle Kingdom.
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TWO Moseses ONE Mitanni
While I'm on the subject of Midian/Mitanni, let me present another case in which my Theophoric Theory resolves a disconcerting contradiction.
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In the biblical account, Moses' first encounter with the Midianites is an amiable one. No acts of aggression are displayed between them. Moses eventually marries the daughter of a priest and is taken into the fold. Then 80 years later, as a final god-inspired act of vengeance, he annihilates all the males of Midian. The Bible presents this as a holy war, and most scholars, while doubting the probability of total annihilation, do concede that such a mass slaughter was a historical reality. Yet this conflict is viewed in contrast to the earlier biblical narratives in which Moses coexisted with the Midianites on peaceful terms. However, in extra-biblical reality the drama occurs in reverse, with Moses being an adversary before becoming an allied in-law.
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Thutmose I (Moses II) was the first Egyptian king of the 18th Dynasty to lead a military campaign to the shores of the Euphrates River. This region was called by the Egyptians the "land of the inverted river," for the overall flow of the Euphrates River is from north to south, in contrast to the Nile which has a south to north trajectory. As I demonstrated above, this was the area of the Mitanni Kingdom. It's not until 90 or so years after Moses II, that Moses V (Thutmose IV) enters into a peace treaty with Mitanni by marrying a daughter of its king. This Moses (V), is the one who introduces Atenism. The Moses to whom god spoke to in a dream. And the one in whose reign we get the first recorded instance of a cult and priesthood dedicated to the god Djehuty-Iah. Djehuty is the original Egyptian rendering of the Greek Thoth.
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So my Theophoric Theory offers a rational explanation for the apparent bipolar behavior of the biblical Moses: He is, in these 2 particular events (the first encounter with Midian, and the marriage to the daughter of the priest/king) a fiction modeled on the conflation of the 2 historical figures above.
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