The Land of Goshen and the Nile River and Hyksos Who Settled There

 Nadene Goldfoot                                          

                                                                

Goshen:  land where Jacob settled in Egypt.  

It is believed to have been located in the eastern Nile Delta, lower Egypt; perhaps at or near Avaris, the seat of power of the Hyksos kings.  Other maps have

shown it over the Sinai, but this makes more sense being

Rameses and Pithom were built in the area by the Hebrews.

Popular lore suggests the Hyksos, a mysterious group of foreign invaders, conquered the Nile Delta around 1638 B.C. and remained in power until 1530 B.C. But written records of the dynasty are scarce, and modern archaeologists have found few material signs of the ancient military campaign.  Now, new research lends weight to an alternative theory on the Hyksos’ origins. As Colin Barras reports for Science magazine, chemical analysis of skeletons found at the Hyksos capital of Avaris indicates that people from the Levant—an area encompassing the countries surrounding the eastern Mediterranean—immigrated to Egypt centuries before the takeover. The Hyksos dynasty, then, was likely the result of an immigrant uprising, not a hostile outside invasion.  The findings, published in the journal PLOS One, center on variations in strontium isotopes present in 75 skeletons’ tooth enamel. Strontium, a harmless metal found in water, soil and rocks, enters the body primarily through food. Comparing isotope ratios found in enamel, which forms between ages 3 and 8, with those present in a specific region, can help scientists determine whether an individual grew up there, as levels “vary from place to place,” writes Ariel David for Haaretz.  Around half of the skeletons were buried in the 350 years before the Hyksos’ takeover; the rest were interred during the dynasty’s reign. Per the paper, the researchers found that 24 of the pre-1638 skeletons were foreign-born, pointing toward significant immigration prior to the supposed invasion. Doesn't this fit with our history of Abraham, his father and wife leaving Ur for Canaan?  

Arrival of Hyksos who may also have been the Hebrews, thinking of Joseph and his coat of many colors that his father, Jacob had made

Avaris was coincidently the Hyksos capital of Egypt located at the modern site of Tell el-Dab'a in the northeastern region of the Nile Delta. As the main course of the Nile migrated eastward, its position at the hub of Egypt's delta emporia made it a major capital suitable for trade. It was occupied from about the 18th century BCE until its capture by Ahmose I.

"Many of these immigrants were from Palestine and they were culturally Egyptianized, using Egyptian pottery, but also retained many aspects of their own culture, as can be seen from the various Asiatic burials including weapons of Syro-Palestinian origin. One palatial district appears to have been abandoned as a result of an epidemic during the 13th dynasty. Could the living had immunity from this that was passed on to the next generations?   In the 18th century BC, the Hyksos conquered Lower Egypt and set up Avaris as their capital. Kamose, the last pharaoh of the Seventeenth Dynasty, besieged Avaris but was unable to defeat the Hyksos there. A few decades later, Ahmose I captured Avaris and overran the Hyksos. Canaanite-style artifacts dated to the Tuthmosid or New Kingdom period suggest that a large part of the city's Semitic population remained in residence following its reconquest by the Egyptians. The pharaohs of the Eighteenth Dynasty set up a capital in Thebes and the palatial complex at Avaris was briefly abandoned, but areas such as the Temple of Seth and G6 region remained continuously occupied. After Ramesses II constructed the city of Pi-Ramesses roughly 2km to the north and "superseding Avaris", large portions of the former site of Avaris were used by the inhabitants of Pi-Ramesses as a cemetery."

The Nile Delta (Arabic: دلتا النيل, Delta an-Nīl or simply الدلتا, ad-Delta) is the delta formed in Lower Egypt where the Nile River spreads out and drains into the Mediterranean Sea. It is one of the world's largest river deltas—from Alexandria in the west to Port Said in the east, it covers 240 km (150 mi) of Mediterranean coastline and is a rich agricultural region. From north to south the delta is approximately 160 km (100 mi) in length. The Delta begins slightly down-river from Cairo.  The Nile River forms an arcuate delta as it empties into the Mediterranean Sea. Stronger waves form a cuspate delta, which is more pointed than the arcuate delta, and is tooth-shaped.  The terminology "Upper" and "Lower" derives from the flow of the Nile from the highlands of East Africa northwards to the Mediterranean Sea.

A river delta is a landform shaped like a triangle, created by deposition of sediment that is carried by a river and enters slower-moving or stagnant water. This occurs where a river enters an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, reservoir, or (more rarely) another river that cannot carry away the supplied sediment. It is so named because its triangle shape resembles the Greek letter Delta. The size and shape of a delta is controlled by the balance between watershed processes that supply sediment, and receiving basin processes that redistribute, sequester, and export that sediment. The size, geometry, and location of the receiving basin also plays an important role in delta evolution.

River deltas are important in human civilization, as they are major agricultural production centers and population centers. They can provide coastline defense and can impact drinking water supply. They are also ecologically important, with different species' assemblages depending on their landscape position.

                 Pharaohs would have lived at Cairo.                                

The Nile is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile is the longest river in Africa and has historically been considered the longest river in the world, though this has been contested by research suggesting that the Amazon River is slightly longer.

                              Pharaoh Narmer/Menes

Menes was the name of the first Egyptian pharaoh, who supposedly founded the 1st Dynasty after unifying Egypt around 3,200 BCE. That was 5,223 years ago.  According to tradition, joined Upper and Lower Egypt in a single centralized monarchy and established ancient Egypt’s 1st dynasty.

Summary:  Israelites led by Jacob/Israel migrated to Egypt when hit by a terrible drought  when their crops were destroyed.  They had been a people coming from Abraham who lived in Ur of the Chaldees near the delta of the Euphrates River of Mesopotamia.  They settled in Egypt’s Nile Delta in the city of Avaris, where they were identified as the Hyksos people,  a major group of immigrants who also lived in this city.  They did so well tending their sheep that they multiplied faster  than Egyptians, scaring the pharaoh who thought they could turn on them and take over, which the Hyksos managed to do at some point, but at the same time, Jacob/Israel’s descendants were made slaves of Egypt, set to building the storage cities of Pithom and Rameses, also in the Nile Delta.  Passover’s 9 plagues were remnants of the Volcano erupting on the Greek island of Santorini with their effect which also took place on the island as well, with the 10^th most serious plague of the 1^st born sons dying being the most mysterious one.   A possible cause could have been something to do with circumcision, an act Egyptians practiced, which then could have only been with 1^st borns, and in a ceremony using either a special knife, food or drink connected with the act that could have poisoned the 1^st borns.  Circumsion is the only act that would have identified males from females.  Israelites were not circumcising yet, and would receive this act while on the Exodus from Moses’s teachings.   While we don’t know enough about circumcision in Egypt, we do know they practiced it.  

Resource;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_delta

END OF TIMES IS HERE

Nadene Goldfoot     

son, Steve Henwood   with 2 cartoons                                         

                             Atmospheric entry of viruses that will live on people

The end of the times we have heard about is upon us.  We're living right in the future we have read about in science fiction; when all changed-though due to wars that included such things as atom bombings that scoured the earth, changing people and our way of life, sometimes even forcing us back to underground living shelters to escape the damaged air.

We have shootings, killing each other going on more than ever!  They're reverting back to the past in their manner, acting more like CAVE MAN than advanced beings of the year 2021.  In 1984 when we were warned aplenty, 2021   WAS the future.  “1984” is at its core a novel about language; how it can be used by governments to subjugate and obfuscate, and by citizens to resist oppression.  Language has been used to scare almost half of this population into thinking that a vaccine will kill you; but it is right before our eyes of all the deaths going on that the dying did NOT get the vaccine.  

                                                            

People have no patience to see doctor's warning through; thinking they licked the virus and ending our prevention steps when at least 30% of viruses are still with us; turning on even stronger changes of their bodies into the big gun killers, the Delta viruses.  They can do that, mutate into more and more varieties unless we rid them all-100%.  

                                                                     

Here we are.  People 200 years from now;  if there are still people, will look back and wonder just how did their elders ever become so stupid as to bring their past into such chaos.  How did we ever miss the mark of ALL getting our COVID virus shots and wearing masks to rid ourselves of the first viruses of COVID 19 and DELTA in the first place?  

This is a preview of our future, folks.  How is this happening?  We seniors complied beautifully, knowing we'd die with our weakened immune systems, and our children took care of us by making sure we got them and quickly.

                                                                       

It doesn't matter how viruses started; either in China, outer space from aliens  or our own labs.  The world was into biological warfare, seeing it was neater than bombs; less mess to clean up afterwards;  just bodies to burn.  The writing was on the wall with such places as Syria using chemical warfare against their own people.  Biological or germ warfare  was less telling; more secretive.  Biological warfare was normal, what with all the diseases we have managed to contain;  measles, mumps, all the childhood ones, others that have wiped out so many that we've managed to learn about and beat.

                                                                   

The Thinker, French Le Penseur, sculpture of a pensive nude male by French artist Auguste Rodin, one of his most well-known works, so the little guy has no idea of what a statue can be thinking about.  Are minds today as blank as "the thinker or the little guy"?  

We all have a mind and use it to think, but sometimes people just don't think clearly.  The top minds of our people are our doctors who study such things as viruses and what they can and can't do, and most of us are smart enough to follow their lead.  Politics cannot rule on this emergency.  It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or a Republican.  That doesn't help the doctors who fight diseases.  You can't use it at a crutch or a measure of your common sense.  It's become a hindrance, instead.                                                                   

This time, in order to do so, ALL must comply and receive the helps they have to offer; and that is NOT TO CONFUSE THE ISSUE WITH POLITICS.  People into politics only know about how to pass a law among like people like themselves.  They know nothing about science and viruses.  THE PEOPLE TO LISTEN TO ARE OUR SCIENTISTS.  

 If someone is so darned afraid of a little pinprick of a vaccine, they need to keep themselves in quarantine, have NO CONNECTION with any other human, have set up online food delivery at their closed door, and entertain themselves with books and TV and that's it.  They are endangering the rest of the population by keeping the viruses afloat and entering our bodies again.  The sad truth of it all is that these non-vaccinated people may not own a TV or a computer and may not even read, not realizing the harm they are doing to themselves or to others.  It only is happening when they enter the hospital.  If they do have these communicators, then they cannot continue wallowing in their pretend universe.  This is where they live and need to comply with the rules of the living.   

                                                       

 

They may be carriers and not realize it, so if the all-clear signal ever comes, they should be tested to make double sure they do not have any indication of it before they emerge like a caterpiller into a butterfly of our future society.                             

I'm tired of hearing about their beliefs that they feel G-d is protecting them when the next week they could be the ones overflowing the hospital again, wearing out the doctors and nurses to the point where right now, some are calling their calling quits out of exhaustion. 

                                                                 

We were given brains and have learned to use them so well. Our role in the world, being we are so smart, is to protect the planet and all that is on it; animals and plants.  We have arrived to the point of using solar power,                   

Tesla cars instead of gas ones, but we haven't improved on the matter of getting along with our neighbors or even husbands and wives very well, though

                                                                       

 It's almost there with the Abraham Accords arriving with the worst of religious enemies realizing how to get along and doing so.  At this point, we should all realize our potential and work towards it.  It's no time to sit back and think of just ourselves.  Realize how many people are being hurt by the person not helping to rid us of the scourge of killer viruses, something the world has never had to battle before.   It could be the end of humanity just as we're learning to live together in peace.  

Resource: 

News                                                     

8/24/21 Update:  One of my readers mentioned the Great Barrington  Declaration.  Here it is: – "As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection. https://gbdeclaration.org/

Coming from both the left and right, and around the world, we have devoted our careers to protecting people. Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice. 

Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed.

Fortunately, our understanding of the virus is growing. We know that vulnerability to death from COVID-19 is more than a thousand-fold higher in the old and infirm than the young. Indeed, for children, COVID-19 is less dangerous than many other harms, including influenza. 

As immunity builds in the population, the risk of infection to all – including the vulnerable – falls. We know that all populations will eventually reach herd immunity – i.e.  the point at which the rate of new infections is stable – and that this can be assisted by (but is not dependent upon) a vaccine. Our goal should therefore be to minimize mortality and social harm until we reach herd immunity. 

The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk. We call this Focused Protection. 

Adopting measures to protect the vulnerable should be the central aim of public health responses to COVID-19. By way of example, nursing homes should use staff with acquired immunity and perform frequent testing of other staff and all visitors. Staff rotation should be minimized. Retired people living at home should have groceries and other essentials delivered to their home. When possible, they should meet family members outside rather than inside. A comprehensive and detailed list of measures, including approaches to multi-generational households, can be implemented, and is well within the scope and capability of public health professionals. 

Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal. Simple hygiene measures, such as hand washing and staying home when sick should be practiced by everyone to reduce the herd immunity threshold. Schools and universities should be open for in-person teaching. Extracurricular activities, such as sports, should be resumed. Young low-risk adults should work normally, rather than from home. Restaurants and other businesses should open. Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities should resume. People who are more at risk may participate if they wish, while society as a whole enjoys the protection conferred upon the vulnerable by those who have built up herd immunity.

On October 4, 2020, this declaration was authored and signed in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 

United States, by:Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, a biostatistician, and epidemiologist with expertise in detecting and monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety evaluations.Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases.Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations."

I wonder what their comment would be now that we have not only COVID 19, but that it has mutated 

into the Delta virus and now the Lambda virus out of Peru of all places, each one bad and quickly moving 

around the world.