The Hyksos

Col. John Garnier lived in the early 20h century and wrote a book called "The Worship of the Dead" after studying the great pyramid. He is not really a reliable source, but he came to some interesting conclusions.

He claims that Khufu was a shepherd king and the biblical patriarch Sem (Shem) who was later equated with Seth and the Greek Typhon. He also claims that Philitis the shepherd was the same person. I've read many crazy claims, some claim that Sem priests had something to do with Shaman or the biblical Shem/Sem. Sem priests, however, did not have shepherd crooks. They were dressed like ancient Greek depictions of Hercules wearing leopard skins.

One thing that was interesting about Garnier's theory is when he says that Khufu overthrew idolatry in favor of sun worship. This is based on the Herodotus account by the way and has nothing to do with the much later Akhenaten. If there is a relation, it is misisng. Or the whole thing could just be false, who knows.

Anyways he claims the Osiris myth is rooted in the overthrow of pagan idolatry in favor of monotheistic worship of the sun (Seth killing Osiris). I don't agree, I just find it interesting. The more interesting part is that it was once observed (by G. Rawlinson in The Story of the Nations: Phoenicia, a 19th century work) how Jerusalem masonry was similar to the pyramids:

Quote:
The wall had an original height of from seventy to one hundred and fourty feet. In places it is built from bottom to top of large squared stones, bevelled at the edges and varying between 3 ft 3 inches and 6 ft in height. The stones are laid without cement. The longest hitherto discovered measures 38 ft 9 inches in length (not less than one hundred tonnes). Many of the other blocks are from half to two thirds of this height. The massiveness of the work is on par with the Egyptian pyramid-Kings; and the perfection of the cutting and fitting of the stones is nearly equal.
Then we move on to "Phoenicia" aka Lebanon: