The god and goddess Heh and Hehet lift the young Sun (as Khepri) over the eastern horizon. (Vol.12, p.48, figure 45. Louis Herbert Gray. The Mythology of All the Races, Egyptian and Indo-Chinese. Boston. Marshall Jones Company. 1918)
The Sun is portrayed as a young prince with the prince's hairlock, above him is the Khepri beetle, an aspect of the rising sun. To the degree that the Bible portrays Moses as a "prince of Egypt," in Egyptian understanding, Moses would be regarded as THE SUN in the flesh or incarnate. Cherubim, identifeid as Egyptian winged Sphinxes, were also aspects of the Sun, as the defenders of Egypt, they are shown trampling Egypt's enemies on the side arms of Egyptian portable thrones, reminiscent of Yahweh's Cherubim throne atop the Ark of the Covenant. An Egyptian, entering the Holy of Holies at Jerusalem and noting the Cherubim facing the east and the rising sun, and the Lotus blossoms adorning the walls, would be cognizant of the Hebrews apapting, transforming, and assimilating Egyptian solar beliefs to Yahweh-Elohim.
Some scholars have noted that the peoples of Canaan in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages, assimilated many Egyptian motifs and concepts.
