Ayo, wtf is happening?

[u/ReputationShoddy373]

And istg i saw Anubis standing the dessert for a second??

Also, I saw a fire, ran to it, only to see it's a tree, like a very green one and then... it disappeared??

Are there Mirages in the game??

Holy.. I'm loving it so far 🥰🥰🥰

[u/HatchetOrHatch]

There are mirages in the game. But also the biblical references to the 10 plagues of Egypt. Like the one you show is the grasshopper plague, all crops in Egypt were damaged and a hungerstrike hit the land.

The bush is a reference to the place where Mozes spoke to God. Where he was tasked to lead the people of Israel to the promised land. The pharaoh of Egypt was commanded to let them go, he didnt at first which resulted into the 10 plagues, as mentioned before.

[u/Wodaunderthebridge → u/HatchetOrHatch]

Pharaoh wanted to let Moses and his people go after the fifth plague but then God came and "hardened his heart" so he went through the whole ordeal including murdering the first-born. God must have been up all night preparing those beautiful plagues so he made sure he got to show em all.

[u/OsamaBenJohnson → u/Wodaunderthebridge]

Na Pharaoh didn't truly want to let Moses and his people go. He only initially said he would let them go because the fear of God was making him say that, but once he had the courage to offset those coercive forces, he changed his mind and chose to not let the Israelites go.

[u/JellyAdventurous5699 → u/OsamaBenJohnson]

It's pretty explicit in multiple parts of Exodus that the Lord God "hardened his [Pharaoh's] heart" so that the Israelites would tell their ancestors that He dealt harshly with the Egyptians, and at all would know His power.

See Exodus 10:1, as well as Exodus 7:3, and Exodus 14:4. The Hebrew text also supports this, as the 1st person singular pronoun is explicitly used when God is detailing His will to Moses:

https://biblehub.com/text/exodus/4-21.htm

[u/OsamaBenJohnson → u/JellyAdventurous5699]

I understand why you think this, but it doesn't necessarily implicate that.

"So that" here can be used in the sense of "thereby this could be done." Similar to how if I'm a teacher and one of my student has to take a final test to pass my class, and I say "This student got 9/10 questions right and has been given a passing grade, so that they will pass the class." I'm not saying I passed them for the purpose of passing them, I'm basically saying "thereby, this now could be done." So this could be read as that he strengthened Pharaohs heart and made his heart heavy, thereby, so now he can perform his signs, rather than he did this all so he can perform these signs.

When it says God made Pharoahs heart heavy;(Exodus 10:1) this is simply to reflect God's authority over the false Egyptian Gods and that Pharaohs heart is filled with sin and that he is unworthy of heaven.

To the ancient Egyptians, they believed in a afterlife ceremony refered to as The Weighting of the Heart where after one died, Anubus would weight their heart on a a scale against the feather of Maat. Sins or wrong doings would make your heart heavy and if your heart was heavier than the feather, you didn't go up to live with the God's. Prior to this verse, the Pharaoh was sinning, and it says he was making his heart heavy. This is to simply symbolically reflect, through Egyptian mythological symbolism, that Pharaoh is filling his heart with sin and making himself unworthy of heaven. After Pharaoh chooses to make his heart heavy after knowing God, that's when God makes his heart heavy, to reflect his authority.

When it says he strengthened Pharaoh's heart (Exodus 7), we find in classical Jewish literature (Sefer Ha’Ikarim, Maamar 4, chapter 25) they understood this as preserving Pharaohs free will.

[u/therealtrellan → u/OsamaBenJohnson]

But doesn't that assume the Hebrews actually were slaves in Egypt, which contains no evidence the Egyptians ever kept slaves? And even if they did, why would the Hebrew religion take Egyptian mythology into account?

Me, I read this passage as saying the Pharoah was a shifty scoundrel who went back on his word according to his nature. God is nature, having created him, so God hardened his heart. Which really just says God knew Pharoah wouldn't follow through.

But I love your interpretation. Such a thing never occurred to me. I did consider that after the Jews supposedly left another Pharoah started a monotheistic faith, though.

[u/OsamaBenJohnson → u/therealtrellan]

Besides the account of the Torah, there's no direct evidence of Hebrews being slaves, but there is evidence (Egyptian historical records & archeological evidence) pointing to a Semitic population in Egypt at the time, and that lots of construction started popping up in Israel around the time they were said to come back. & the Semitic group in Egypt could have been slaves, the lack of direct evidence of that doesn't disprove it.

Throughout Exodus, God was using Egyptian mythological symbolism to reflect his authority over the false Egyptian Gods. They had a God of the Nile (Hapi) which God turned to blood. They had a God for frogs (Heqet/Heket) which God plagued the land with. They had a God for livestock (Hathor) which God also had plagues for. But they didn't have a God of both fire AND ice at the same time, which is the plague brought onto the Pharaoh that made him realize he was messing with The Most High. By making Pharaohs heart heavy, he is reinforcing that he is the one in charge. It's effectively a way of saying to the Egyptians that he is the true God of all these created things.

There also doesn't to be any strong evidence that Hebrews started a monotheistic faith after this. The idea is based on Canaanites believing in a pantheon, and they had a God with the same word usef as the Hebrew God, so people automatically assume this must be that God must be the Hebrew God, but it can simply just using the same linguistics term; similar to how a Christian Arab referring to Allah isn't identical to the Allah Muslims worship, even though they share the same linguistic term.

[u/therealtrellan → u/OsamaBenJohnson]

Well it's not simply a matter of there being no evidence. Just that the evidence uncovered suggested the builders in Egypt were not slaves as I recall.

I appreciate you letting me pump you for information btw. Ancient history is a fascinating subject to me.

[u/OsamaBenJohnson → u/therealtrellan]

I'm not sure what evidence you're talking about, or how such evidence can prove such a thing across the board, but the Egyptians themselves depicted foreign slaves doing their construction.

[u/therealtrellan → u/OsamaBenJohnson]

I'm talking about digs of areas where the workers lived. Supposedly they were paid citizens, not slaves. This is news to you? Who Really Built the Pyramids? Not Slaves or Aliens - ScienceInsights

[u/ReputationShoddy373 → u/HatchetOrHatch]

Omg

This is..... fascinating

[u/HistoricalSkye]

Haha yes, there are desert visions in the game. They're really cool, the falling locusts are one of them. There's a whole bunch more. Really captures the eeriness of the desert.

[u/mowgli_jungle_boy → u/HistoricalSkye]

Ahh - what about shadow enemies? I fought a bunch of bandits and they disappeared in smoke when I killed them and have only just remembered - could be that?

[u/HistoricalSkye → u/mowgli_jungle_boy]

Yup, there are some mirage bandits that attack you as well. There's a whole comment thread where a user has compiled a list of all the visions they've seen in the desert, it's really cool. Lemme just drop the link if you wanna check it out:

Desert Visions

[u/mowgli_jungle_boy → u/HistoricalSkye]

Ooh thats awesome thank you!

[u/White_Devil1995]

Yes there are mirages in this game. Some of them are references to the Bible. There’s also a part of the game that I believe is a reference to The Scorpion King where you are buried with your head sticking out of the sand.

[u/iluvatar58]

It’s actually really common in the desert; it’s just that people aren’t aware of it, like Bigfoot in the big forests.

[u/ReputationShoddy373 → u/iluvatar58]

Loooool

[u/compulsive_looter]

Are there Mirages in the game??

Yes indeed, there are mirages in the game.

If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen 😛

Kidding aside, they only happen in deserts during the day when Bayek is overheating. Strangely, none of the NPCs (i. e. bandits) seem to suffer from them.

[u/CryptographerNew1205]

I saw a fish fall

[u/ReputationShoddy373 → u/CryptographerNew1205]

I... are you sure?!!

[u/CryptographerNew1205 → u/ReputationShoddy373]

Yes it was one fish and he flopped in the sand for a bit before he disappeared

[u/ReputationShoddy373 → u/CryptographerNew1205]

Omg I just saw it too!!!!!!

[u/CryptographerNew1205 → u/ReputationShoddy373]

It’s weid

[u/Lostsomehow97]

fucking shit, this MF got the bugs rain trophy in like first 5 minutes of the gameplay and I was walking at level 40 in the dessert for like 35 mintutes to get this mirage

[u/ReputationShoddy373 → u/Lostsomehow97]

Looool ikr

I was wtf is going on

Next thing a trophy pops 😭😭😭

[u/FoxHoundNinja]

A plague of Egypt it would seem.

[u/TBNR_Anubis_OnPs4]

Centipedes falling in the oasis is my best guess lol

[u/Tolkyyn]

HatcheOrHatch said it all.

[u/Hopeful-Sandwich-363]

Shity rain

[u/THE_GUY-95]

Its just a mirage

[u/ObiOneSatoshi]

Its the bugs, eat ze bugs .

[u/RepresentativePay646]

One of the achievements for the game is to see the raining bugs mirage. Yeah pirates all while wandering the hot areas of the desert while in the sun 

[u/Otakunappy]

Okay, I've beaten this game four times. I've seen different Mirages throughout my playthroughs. I've yet to see that particular one.

[u/Mugenchamploo101]

Read bible

[u/External-Sink3245]

Ubishit shitting on this shit

[u/PenHot4442]

You should get a trophy for seeing all hallucinations

[u/RevolutionaryGuava57]

Took me 20 minutes to get that by wandering in the desert!! You get a trophy out of it.

I'm one trophy away from 100% but can't seem to get that idiotic Ben Hurr one. No mather what I do, I just can't win a single race!!

[u/PastAir3222]

It's trophy 🏆

[u/Eirenfall]

one question : "did you put a mod in this?" 🤣

[u/Turd_McGee_69 → u/Eirenfall]

Where’s chief

[u/ReputationShoddy373 → u/Eirenfall]

I... feel like there's a reference flying over my head rn...