The gist of how the Egyptian gods, in the Jewish recension, became Judaic prophets (see: religious prophets); about which, Galileo (1614) was queried to explain how Copernican cosmology, with its "moving earth", could explain Joshua 10:13, based on the model that it is the sun (Ra) and moon (Thoth) that "move" about a stationary earth (Geb), according to Heliopolis cosmology (Heliopolis creation myth). [1] |
“Now as the name of Joshua was altered in order that the name of the male god Jah, made known by Moses, might be compounded with that of Shu or Shva ; and as Jah-Adonai is the sun-god Ra who adopted Shu as his son in the solar regime, it follows that Jah-Shua is the Hebrew equivalent Shu-si-Ra, and the original Oshea becomes the son of Adonai-Jah, just as the pre-solar god Shu in the creation by Ra becomes the son of Ra, whereas previously he was, like Joshua, the sun of Nun.”