The Jews possess a rich extra-Biblical literature in which are to be found the myths and superstitions that in the course of centuries were woven around the gigantic figure of their first leader and the founder of their religion...One of these legends describes in an attractive fashion how the ambition of the man Moses had already displayed itself in his childhood. When Pharaoh took him into his arms and playfully tossed him high, the little three-year-old snatched the crown from Pharaoh's head and placed it on his own - Sigmund Freud We emphasize at this point that spurious and preposterous stories, such as this one mentioned by Freud, are just part of the great tapestry of deception covering up the connections between Moses and Akhenaton. It was essential to the authors of the "holy books" that Moses, their concocted character, appear to have a separate life of his own. In light of this, any kind of embellishment was satisfactory as long as it served to make Moses appear to be a different character from Pharaoh Akhenaton. And so we have the outlandish stories of his birth, abandonment, adoption, and criminal history, etc. Most of these stories were simple plagiarization of earlier world myths. The tale of the abandonment on the river was adopted from the life of King Sargon. The scene upon the mountain was gleaned from tales of the lives of King Menes and King Nebo. His "biographers" who detailed his time as an exile, shepherd, and adopted son of a strange priest Jethro, knew that there was nothing original about their stories. Every culture and nation had similar if not identical heroes and myths. - Tsarion -