According to the Jewish historian Artapanus (quoted by Eusebius in his Preparation for the Gospel ), the Pharaoh of Moses’ nativity was Palmanothes, and his daughter, who rescued Moses, was named “Merris.” Josephus says that the daughter’s name was Thermuthis, Greek for Tawaret, “the hippopotamus goddess of wet-nursing who was a manifestation of Isis.”
David Rohl ( A TEST OF TIME: THE BIBLE – FROM MYTH TO HISTORY V. 1 (A CHANNEL FOUR BOOK) 
Exodus, a subversion of Egyptian myth. From the outset, Yahweh makes war on the gods of Egypt.
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