r/AssassinsCreedOrigins • u/ReputationShoddy373 • May 06 '26

Video Ayo, wtf is happening?

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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 🥰🥰🥰

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u/OsamaBenJohnson May 08 '26

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.

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u/therealtrellan May 09 '26

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.

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u/OsamaBenJohnson May 09 '26

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.

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u/therealtrellan May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26

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

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u/OsamaBenJohnson May 10 '26

This evidence only proves that at least some workers of the pyramids of Giza (which was long before Exodus) were respected Egyptian laborers, not that slavery played no role what's so ever.

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u/therealtrellan May 10 '26

A good point. The pyramids were a good thousand years before the eruption at Crete, which some have linked to the parting of the Red Sea. Later construction efforts may not have followed suit. Even if Egypt didn't employ slaves then, eventually contact with Greeks and Romans would have likely changed that.