Sheshnak, the great Amazigh king who wrote his name with a golden ink...
Shishang is an Egyptian pharaoh of Amazigh origins who founded the Twenty-Second Dynasty. His lineage goes back to a family that settled in the city of Ihnasia. In one of the Egyptian inscriptions, his ancestors were mentioned in detail: the Pharaoh Shishang, son of Nimrod, son of Shishang, son of Bathut, son of Nabanshi, son of Mawasata, son of Buyo Wawa.
His ancestors...
His great-grandfather (Buyo Wawa) was settled in one of the oases in southwestern Egypt, and he belonged to the Amazigh tribe of Tahnu. As for his son, Mawasata, he moved to live in the city of Ahnasia and joined the ranks of the priests until he became the priest of the temple of the city of Ahnasia. He was succeeded by his son Nebenshi, who was succeeded by his son Bathut. He was succeeded by his son Sheshenq, who inherited from his ancestors the position of priest, and later became the high priest and commander of the Ihnasia garrison. He married the daughter of the leader of the Amazigh Meshwash tribe, and gave birth to Nimrod, who married Princess Tantz Bah, from whom he had Sheshenq, who became Pharaoh of Egypt and founder of the Twenty-Second Dynasty....
This was around 950 BC.
?But how did he come to power
Perhaps he took advantage of the tense relationship between Ramesses II and the Libyan Amazigh Meshwash tribes and led them against the Pharaoh in a battle on the banks of the Nile Valley, and this is confirmed by the Great Harris Papyrus.
It is a papyrus that is more than forty meters long and about 42 meters wide. centimetre, this papyrus talks about the attack of the Libo tribes on... The delta region and it is understood through this text that the reason for this migration And the Pharaoh wanted to impose on the Libyans a king from whom he usurped In his palace But the Libyans rejected this ruler because they saw in him a pharaoh. Same.
Sheshanq was famous and implemented a wide urban program whose immortal effects remain to this day, including a huge gate now known as the Sheshanak Gate. It was called in his time the Victory Gate, which is part of the extension of the southern wall of the famous Hypostyle Hall in Karnak. It was recorded on this gate, as was the custom of kings. Egyptians news of his victories in Palestine and the history of the priests of Amun, members of his family...
During the period of weakness of the Egyptian state, he tried to revive its ancient glories, and he was able to restore its lost prestige. Details of his victories over the kingdoms of Palestine, Canaan, and Syria can be seen, and his inscriptions depict the tribute he paid to these kingdoms in detail and with precise mathematical determination. We see an echo of his battles and victories in the Sheshanq Gate and in the Holy Bible, which provided many details about his defeat of Jeroboam, the king of the children of Israel and the son of the Prophet Solomon.
?How is that
Sheshnak, with his Pharaonic empire, was expanding eastward, and he had a good relationship with the Prophet Solomon, and he even married him to his daughter, but after his death, the relationship with his two sons would worsen, and he would then occupy the Kingdom of Judah. The Libyans were mentioned in the Tawar. In the twelfth chapter of the Second Book of Chronicles as a witness on that incident. .
The Torah says, “1 And when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and strong, he forsook the law of the Lord. And all Israel is with him.
2 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Sheshenq, king of Egypt, went against Jerusalem. Yes, because they betrayed the Lord.
3 With one thousand two hundred chariots and threescore thousand horsemen, and there was no number for the people that Those who came with him from Egypt: Lubain (Libyans), Sakin, and Kushien. 4And he took the fortified cities that belonged to Judah and came to Jerusalem...
So, after Sheshnak ascended the throne of pharaoh, the Berbers then assumed the rule of Pharaonic Egypt for two centuries (200 years) through the twenty-second, twenty-third, and twenty-fourth dynasties...
During the period from 730-950 BC, he was one of their most famous kings.
Sheshenq I - Osarkin I - Takelut I - Osarkin II I - Sheshenq II - Takelut II - Sheshenq III - Bamai - Sheshenq 4th Buddy Bast - 5th Sheshenq - 3rd Osrkin - 3rd Takelut - Amenrod..
Among the most important Egyptian historical monuments that indicate the Amazigh Pharaonic dynasty are:
The Arc of Triumph in the city of Karnak and the tomb of the twenty-second Amazigh royal family in the city of Talbasta..
As for the opinion of Egyptian historians and Egyptologists in general in the world on Sheshnak!! They do not disagree that he is a Libyan Amazigh or his impact there
They differ only in the way he came to power, between those who see it by force and those who see the complete opposite, and they differ on the mention of Jerusalem because of its political problem in the Palestine issue...
Dr. Zakia Youssef Tabouzada mentions the difference in the method of reaching power in her book “The History of Ancient Egypt” that groups of the Meshwash and Libo tribes residing in Egypt were always gathering in communities, but they quickly “Egyptized” and converted to Egyptian religion and customs.
In a statement to Aswat Magharebia, the head of the Egyptian Antiquities Sector, Dr. Youssef Khalifa, said, “Egypt had western borders with Libya, and Egypt had economic activities and cultural and social contacts, and some migrations came from the West, so some Libyans came to Egypt individually and in groups.” They formed a community and intermarried and intermarried until they were able to come to power.”
Many historians point out that Sheshenq's name was mentioned in the Torah, specifically in the Book of Kings (mentioned above), when he seized the city of Jerusalem, now Jerusalem.
Sheshenq’s military victories were also recorded on the southern outer walls of the lobby of the Karnak Temple in Egypt, “but the city of Jerusalem did not respond to these walls.”
(This is a fruitless struggle between the Egyptians who deny and the Israelis who confirm)
In order to confirm this, the Israeli scientist Yigal Levin states that the reason behind not mentioning Jerusalem by name may be due to geographical factors that in turn led to the disappearance of some names and events on the facade of the Karnak Temple.
As for the statues of the great King Sheshenak, they are still present at this moment in multiple museums, including the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, which contains the Sphinx of King Sheshenak, and it is in good condition....
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