Where we see satire most dramatically is in the ninth plague, when the sun was blotted out. Remember that Ramesses’ and Moses’ names had a common root: Moses meant “son of,” which without a prefix meant Son of No One; while Ramesses’ name meant Son of Ra (Ra being the sun god). In this battle between the eighty-year-old stuttering Son of No One and the powerful Son of Ra the sun god, Moses’ God, Yahweh, defeated Pharaoh’s sun god, causing utter darkness.
