According to the Jewish historian Artapanus (quoted by Eusebius in his Preparation for the Gospel ), the Pharaoh of Moses’ nativity was Palmanothes, and his daughter, who rescued Moses, was named “Merris.” Josephus says that the daughter’s name was Thermuthis, Greek for Tawaret, “the hippopotamus goddess of wet-nursing who was a manifestation of Isis.”

David Rohl ( A TEST OF TIME: THE BIBLE - FROM MYTH TO HISTORY V. 1 (A CHANNEL FOUR BOOK) ) comments: “There may be an attempt on the part of both authors to link the mother goddess Isis, who protects her child Horus by hiding him in the delta marshes, with the Egyptian princess who nurtures and protects Moses having discovered him in the bulrushes. Thus they make Prince Moses synonymous with Horus, the legitimate heir to the Egyptian throne.”

Exodus, a subversion of Egyptian myth. From the outset, Yahweh makes war on the gods of Egypt.