What gods did the Hyksos kings of Egypt worship?

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Question by Sὶℜὶնs ℜℯgℯnℯrᶏեℯ∂: What gods did the Hyksos kings of Egypt worship?
If you do research on the Hyksos dynasty of Egypt. It was ruled by Semitic Hurrians who did not bare Egyptian names. Some of these kings had names like Khyan, Salitism Sakir-Har, Apophis, Khamudi and Yakubher. There names bare no connection to Egyptian gods or goddess. So what deities did they worship?

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Answer by BRUTUS the BADGER
Probably some sort horse god thingie. I just made that up.

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5 Responses to “What gods did the Hyksos kings of Egypt worship?”

  • scooterpoop supreme contributor says:

    They left behind no writings. (Or more correctly, the Theban Egyptians probably destroyed them all. They said in their own monuments that they would obliterate the memory of the Hyksos from their lands.)

    Since the Hyksos were Syrian, they probably brought the Mesopotamian deities with them, usually headed by Ishtar.

    Egyptians assigned the deity Set to the inhabitants of Canaan. The 400-year stele (among others) used set, dressed in Canaanite clothing to commemorate the 400 years of rule of the “wretched Asiatics” (1730-1330). However, Set was not a Hyksos deity.

    (I think it was Balaam in Numbers who once gave a prophecy of the final defeat of “the sons of Sheth”. That’s what he was referring to.)

  • Ethan Brost says:

    Probably, Ra, Bastet. Seth, and others.
    There was evidence that they even worshiped some greek gods as well

  • Vin says:

    The Hyksos Kings worshipped Sutekh or Baal.

  • WellTraveledProg says:

    Nobody knows for sure, since the “native” Egyptians who kicked the Hyksos out of Egypt did a really good job wiping out much of their history. Many scholars think they initiated monotheistic worship in Egypt.

    Most Egyptian scholars think they were Canaanites, who migrated into Egypt (probably peacefully), and eventually became rulers. A number of scholars also connect them being “kicked out” of Egypt with the legend of Moses and the “exodus,” which would mean it was a migration of exiled rulers, not an escape of slaves. However, evidence for that hypothesis is minimal.

    Peace.

  • Gary L says:

    Set

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