Ahhotep is also at the origin of the name of Europe, the sister of King Cadmus of the Greek Thebes, whose daughter Ino was the second wife of the Beotian king Athamas. Moreover, Agenor alias Inachos (in Egypt the Hyksos King Aâqenen-Rê) ruled over Argos when Ahmose (Ahhotep's son) was pharaoh in Egypt. This means that all these mythical characters were well real and contemporary in Egypt and Greece circa 1500 B.C. Because according to Ptolemy of Mendes in his Annals : "Amosis demolished Avaris in the time of the Argive Inachos." And Clement of Alexandria reports : "Cadmus the Phenician invented stone cutting and discovered the gold mines in the mountain of Pangaea" (The land of Pan = Meroe) which brings back us to Dionysos-Kamose-Thoutmose I ruler of the Land of Kush. Thus if Cadmus was Kamose alias Egyptus, his half brother Ahmose may well be Athamas, alias Danaus son of Danae-Ahhotep (= Io the Argive, mother of Epaphus the bull born in Egypt).
Finally, remark that Boeotians (in Greek βοι οτοι) means "people with cow ears"
Allegory : "The Danaides"
by John William Waterhouse
But who was the brother of Aegyptus, Danaus-Armais who ruled over Argos? According Strabo (VIII, 6, 5) Homeric Argolis stretched well beyond the current Greek province, it was actually the largest part of the Greece which was then under Argive rule : i.e. both Thessaly, Boeotia, the Cadmeide and even the Peloponnese. And as according to Pausanias (IX, 24, 1) "From Acrephnia to the Lake Copais, it goes through a plain where Athamas once had his home", one may wonder if the Greek name of Athamas could not be a deformation of the name of Pharaoh Ahmose of the 18th dynasty (beginning of the New Kingdom in Egypt, Late Helladic I for Greece); and if his 'dwelling' was not the fortress on the Island of Gla, northeast of the Lake Copais in Boeotia. This Egyptian emigration in Central Greece would perfectly explain the hydraulic works in the Copais undertaken just like those commonly practiced in Egypt.
In this regard, one can note that the Danaides' barrel was an allegory figuring a natural phenomenon, as Lake Copais was fed by several rivers whose waters continuously escaped to sea through subterraneous caves named cathavotres. According to John, Bishop of Nikiu, in his Chronicles, chapter 22 "1. Inachos, Noah's son, who ruled at East on the Argives' land was the first king of this country. 2. He honoured the Moon and made of her a goddess. 3. He built in the Argives' land a city named Iopolis after the name of the Moon, as the Argives in their secret mysteries named the Moon Io until now. 4. And he built a temple where he put a stand and a bronze statue of the Moon, on which he wrote Io makaira*, meaning "full of light".
* This expression is the Egyptian formula "maât kherw" literally "true of voice", meaning justified at the weighting of the soul", so dead and resurrected as a being of light. This fact is evidence of an Egyptian presence in Argolis in relation with the legend of Princess Io priestess of the Moon in Argos, become Queen Ahhotep in Egypt. As Ah (or Iâh) is the Egyptian form of God Iara of the Canaanite city of Jericho, in Egyptian Sharruqen, the Hyksos capital city conquered by pharaoh Ahmose three years after the siege of Avaris.
Manetho "Egyptiaca" - XVIIIth Dynasty. 12. : Armaïs also named Danaos reigned for 5 years. Then he was exiled from Egypt and fled to escape his brother Aigyptos. He emigrated to Greece and gained the power on Argos. "
According to an ancient belief, Argos was somehow the mother country of the kings of Egypt (of the 18th dynasty), since the lineage of Danaos was after Io, born in Argos. The Danaides escaped from Egypt with their father. They were welcomed by Pelasgos king of Argos. The arrival of Danaides in Argos was the subject of an Aeschylus' tragedy entitled "Hykesios" (The Suppliants) which some considered as a corruption of "Hyksos".
"Danaus and Aigyptus were the sons of Belus, a king ruling Assyria, Arabia, Egypt and Libya. Danaus inherited Libya and his brother Aigyptus received Arabia. The latter took over Egypt, threatening the security of Danaus. As Danaus had fifty daughters, Aegyptus wanted to marry them to his fifty sons. Danaus then forced to accept such marriages fled to Argos with his daughters and he ordered them to kill their husbands on their wedding day. All obeyed him, except one whose husband Lynceus then ruled Argos. To atone for their crimes the Danaides were condemned by Zeus to fill forever a barrel from which water continually escaped. (According to Apollodorus, Library, II, 1.4).
ARMAIS-DANAUS and RHAMESSES-AIGYPTUS
A GREEK TRADITION REPORTED
by the EGYPTIAN PRIEST MANETHO
Pseudo-Manetho F3 : "Armaïos-Danaos fleeing his brother Rhamesses called Aigyptos, abdicated his throne in Egypt and fled to Greece. He took control of Argos where he expelled Sthenelus son of Krotopos, and became king of the Argives. Their descendants were called Daneans.
Manetho "History of Egypt" - XVIIIth Dynasty. 13. : "Rhamesses** also called Aigyptos* reigned 68 years." Epitome of Manetho reported by Eusebius in his Armenian version (6-8th century A.D.)
Fragment 10 of Manetho reported by Flavius Josephus, Contre Apionem 98 and 102 : "Rhamesses ** who was also called Sethos " ... "He gave his name to Egypt, because it is said that Sethos was called Aigyptos, and his brother Harmais was called Danaos."
* Remember that Aigyptos (in Greek: αιγου πους or αιγου ποδος meaning "goat foot") was the nickname given to Kamose because he walked on tiptoe owing of a congenital clubfoot. But according to another tradition he had become lame after his horse had thrown him into a ravine (F3a of Manetho concerning "the pharaoh Hephaestus, a warrior and mystic", reported by Malalas, Chronographia, p. 21).
** Rhamesses is a wrong pronunciation of the name of Kamose-Kames ("Generated by a bull") ;
as at the Late Period, the hieroglyph Ka of Kamose was pronounced as Kha or .