Comments on: Exploring past and present lives—Tutankhamen

By: Maria Carlisie

Maria Carlisie — Tue, 13 May 2014 20:47:21 +0000

Thank you for posting! This post has a lot of value/interest to me, as I am doing research on ancient civilizations; please keep them coming!

By: Nicolaas Vergunst

Nicolaas Vergunst — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 08:34:21 +0000

Swiss archaeologists discover fifty mummies from Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty—including princes, princesses and infants—during excavations of a trashed tomb in the Valley of the Kings. http://www.livescience.com/45186-mummies-unearthed-egypts-valley-of-the-kings.html

By: Nicolaas Vergunst

Nicolaas Vergunst — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 21:41:40 +0000

According to my research, Anita, the ancient Atlantean Hall of Records will soon be found in the vicinity of Thebes. How soon this will be, of course, is hard to say.

By: Anita Venezia

Anita Venezia — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 21:22:57 +0000

If only the searchers could find written words. They may be found sometime, somewhere…

By: Nicolaas Vergunst

Nicolaas Vergunst — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 09:38:32 +0000

My source is Laurence Oliver, a psychiatrist, whose clairaudient messages are cited in KoS. His messages include the karmic biographies of, inter alia, Moses and Akhnaton. According to him, Akhnaton’s tomb is yet to be found, as is his mummy. However, since DNA tests indicate that the skeletonised mummy of KV55 is the son of Amenhotep III and the father of Tutankhamen, Zahi Hawass neatly assumes it is Akhnaton (National Geographic, September 2010). Instead, other Egyptologists suspect it belongs to his younger brother Smenkhare which, astoundingly, Dr Oliver already posited in 2002.

By: John van den Berg

John van den Berg — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:07:29 +0000

From which source, Nicolaas, did you obtain the information about Moses and Akhnaton were the same person? SE XXIII, p 24 ff says: “If Moses was an Egyptian and if he communicated his own religion to the Jews, it must have been Ahkhenaten’s, the Aten religion… My hypothesis that Moses was not a Jew but an Egyptian created a fresh riddle… If however we place Moses at the time of Akhnaton [can we, Nicolaas? You would know] and SUPPOSE [my capitals] him in contact with the Pharaoh, the riddle vanishes. Let us start from the assumption that Moses was an aristicratic and prominent man, perhaps a member of the royal house… he may have played with the idea of one day being the kingdom’s ruler. Being close to the Pharaoh, he was a convinced adherent of the new religion. When the king died and a reaction set in, he saw all his hopes and prospects destroyed.”

Nowhere does Freud say the two were one and the same person, but he does make a well-reasoned case, further on, that in the desert the Jews killed Moses and a second Moses took over. Incidently, National Geographic had an article about Akhnaton’s mummy having been found (identified by DNA), and the whole issue remains fascinating.

By: Nicolaas Vergunst

Nicolaas Vergunst — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:01:11 +0000

Thanks for referencing Freud’s study of monotheism, John, his idea that Moses and Akhnaton are one and the same person is indeed intriguing. However, my research shows that Moses, then known as Osiraes, was the Royal Keeper of the Ark of Amen under Akhnaton. (KoS p.419) While Freud’s psychoanalytic theory may generate hypotheses about historical events and their mythical translation, I personally find he says more about himself than he does of Moses and Akhnaton.

By: John van den Berg

John van den Berg — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 07:37:51 +0000

Substitution and Doppelgängers are a motif which frequently occurs in myths and legends and are thus archetypical ideas which most likely had their roots in actual occurrences. For example, Moses and Monotheism contains a strong agument that the historical Moses wasn’t one but two persons. Knot of Stone is, itself, a remarkable book.

By: Nicolaas Vergunst

Nicolaas Vergunst — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 20:02:06 +0000

“Some mysteries ever remain so, even to the end of time.” I hope the record is set straight one day, but the citation suggests that Tutankhamen’s death will remain a riddle. Be that as it may, it doesn’t prevent us from striving to uncover the truth as best we can. Not to do so would be a wasted life or, as Socrates once put it, “an unexamined life is not worth living”. Thanks for your comment, Elsie, it is always good to see you on our page.

By: Elsie du Plessis

Elsie du Plessis — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:34:18 +0000

Intriguing—this is really mind-boggling—thank you! I read the incredible story above and am now more perplexed than ever! Will researchers ever get behind the true story? I pray they do!

By: Anita Venezia

Anita Venezia — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:47:03 +0000

I love intrigue, mystery and stories of the past. When I saw the recent Tut exhibit in San Francisco, there was no mention of the switch.

By: Ralph Sibande

Ralph Sibande — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:39:30 +0000

Truth is stranger than fiction.

By: Lisa Velt

Lisa Velt — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 08:21:17 +0000

Thanks Nicolaas—what an interesting post! I have never heard about this before.