In ancient Egypt, Joseph wore a coat of many colours

Eighteenth Dynasty rulers figure prominently in Old Testament and Koran

Yuya of the Eighteenth Dynasty has been clearly linked to Joseph of the Old Testament by Ahmed Osman, and his research was followed up splendourifiously by the eminent Pope Charles of the late 20th Century Dynasty that carried into the 21st Century. As the Papal scribe explored in detail the connections between Yuya / Joseph and the 18th Dynasty luminaries, wide-ranging familial relations were discovered that had resulted from this Union of the House of Joseph and the House of David.

There was an additional benefit of discovering the link between Asenath's Hebrew name and her Egyptian name, Tuya, which previously seemed difficult to connect. Now that we know Ashurnasirpal's wife was named Asherah / Ashratu, the Assyrian equivalent of Asenath, her four main names will henceforth be considered as Asenath / Asherah / Ashratu / Tuya, though she was also known to many cultures by even more names, as illustrated below.

Queen Asherah aka Asenath Ashratu Tuya (aka Athirat, Ashtart, Ishtar, Elat, Asertu, Ashtoreth / Hertu, Qudshu, Qodesh)

Daughter of Potiphera (read Pharaoh Poti, Thutmose IV)

Wife of Yuya Joseph Tushratta (aka Yusuf / Asurnasirpal)
- mother of Queen Tiye Zipporah
- mother of Prince Aanen Manasseh (aka Shaulmaneser III)
- mother or stepmother of Aye Ephraim

Tuya and Yuya were parents of:

Daughter: Tiye aka Zipporah / Jochebed / Jezebel / Joacaste / Merope / Naamah
(mother of Moses / Akhenaten, grandmother of Joshua / Tutankhamun)

Son: Ephraim aka Aye / Sheshonq I / Sheshonq I / Ahab / Asa / Aya / Ayyab / Lab'ayu / Addaya / Rib-Addi / Shaul, Jerimoth, Nebat II / Ithra / Jethro / Eleazar / Nimshi / Ahilud / Hobab / Jeremoth / Je-rimoth / eastern Jahrammat

Son: Manasseh aka Shalmaneser III Aanen, Aaron, Manasseh, Menasseh, Asuraballit, Mery-Re, Ashuraballit, Ilu-KabKabu, Belus, Bel, Amon, Amariah, Amarnappa, Amon-appa, Jeroboam I

In the political / military world, Tuya Asherah's daughter Tiye was wife to two Pharaoh's, plus mother of two and grandmother of at least one (Tutankhamun).

In the spiritual realm, Asherah's memory was melded with and eclipsed by (in the pantheon of Goddesses) her granddaughter-in-law, Queen Shammuramat / Semiramis, who founded the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and created a lasting monument to her own name, "Heaven in the Sands" (Shammu-ramat). Tuya / Asherah's sons Aye (Ephraim) and Aanen (Manasseh) and their progeny more than made up for her fade from memory, as they and the Chosen changed the world forever.

The 9th Century BC will come to be viewed as the true beginning of monotheism, resulting from a melding of Egyptian / Ethiopian rites and teachings with those of Assyria / Mittanni, even then without insulting Mesopotamian / Babylonian ancestors. The Sun King Akhenaten professed worship of One God, and the Century of Peace between David and Joseph created the faith we know as Judaism, and laid the foundations for the emergence of Christianity in the First Century AD and Islam in the 7th Century AD.

Queen Asenath / Ashtoreh / Asherah / Ashratu or as I like to refer to her, Empress Tuya will be remembered forever as a formative lady in the annals of humanikind.

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