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Around 1900 BC (the time of Abraham), Canaanites mass emigrate to Egypt and take power as the "Hyksos". But they are evicted in a few centuries by a guy named ThutMOSES, who leads them to Canaan, in the biblical story Moses never goes to Canaan with his people. They become known has the Habiru/Hebrew people. In the Bible Jacob (also known as Israel) stays in Egypt. Egyptian guy named Psuennes tries building a Great Temple to the Thebian triad around the time of Solomon. His successor is named, and I shit you not, Siamun (means “Son of Amun/Sun”). There's more evidence of Hiram I and Psuennes than there is of David or Solomon, even though both of these people would have been contemporary
Solomon supposedly built his temple on a threshing floor. In the past threshing floors were not only used for threshing and winnowing, but were also used as solar observatories and for ceremonies which were part of a solar cult.The entrance to the First Temple was oriented towards true east, towards the area of the horizon where the sun rises, this is because it was a temple dedicated to the sun and built by sun worshipers.
>...He then brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and there at the entrance to the temple, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men. With their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, they were bowing down to the sun in the east." - Ezekiel 8:16
Josiah did the major cleanup of the First temmple. In 2 Kings 23:11 we read:
>"He (Josiah) removed from the entrance of the Lord'sTemple the horse[solar symbol] statues that the former kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun... He also burned the chariots[kings and gods ride those] dedicated to the sun...
The zodiac wheel of Helios, with him in the center, is to be found in a sixth century synagogue (Beth Alpha) aswell as in contemporaneous ones. This sun god only appears in the Holy Land, not in synagogues from Jewish diaspora.
