> the hyksos are known to have worshiped the canaanite storm god baal, who was associated with the egyptian god set. set appears to have been the patron god of avaris as early as the fourteenth dynasty. hyksos iconography of their kings on some scarabs shows a mixture of egyptian pharaonic dress with a raised club, the iconography of baal. later sources claiming the hyksos were opposed to the worship of other gods > josephus, and most of the writers of antiquity, associated the hyksos with the jews. quoting from manetho's aegyptiaca, josephus states that when the hyksos were expelled from egypt, they founded jerusalem (contra apion i.90). it is unclear if this is original to manetho or josephus's own addition, as manetho does not mention "jews" or "hebrews" in his preserved account of the expulsion. josephus's account of manetho connects the expulsion of the hyksos to another event two hundred years later, in which a group of lepers led by the priest osarseph were expelled from egypt to the abandoned avaris. there they ally with the hyksos and rule over egypt for thirteen years before being driven out, during which time they oppress the egyptians and destroy their temples. after the expulsion, osarseph changes his name to moses (contra apion i.227-250) > seth negative aspects were emphasized during this period. set was the killer of osiris, having hacked osiris' body into pieces and dispersed it so that he could not be resurrected. the greeks would later associate seth with typhon and yahweh, a monstrous and evil force of raging nature (being the three of them depicted as donkey-like creatures, classifying their worshippers as onolatrists)
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