One Egyptian text actually gives a clue to the Great green:
"I am the god Tem in rising. I am the Only One. I came into existence in Nu. I am Ra who rose in the beginning, the ruler of this [creation]."
"Who is this? "
"It is Ra, when at the beginning he rose in the city of Hensu, crowned like a king for his coronation. The Pillars of the god Shu were not as yet created, when he was upon the steps of him that dwelleth in Khemenu. "I am the Great God who created himself, even Nu, who made his names to become the Company of the Gods as gods."
"Who is this? "
"It is Ra, the creator of the names of his limbs, which came into being in the form of the gods who are in the train of Ra. "I am he who cannot be repulsed among the gods."
"What is this ? "
"It is the purification [of Osiris] on the day of his birth. "I am purified in my great double nest which is in Hensu on the day of the offerings of the followers of the Great God who dwelleth therein."
"What is the "great double nest"?
"The name of one nest is 'Millions of years,' and 'Great Green [Sea]' is the name of the other, that is to say 'Lake of Natron' and 'Lake of Salt.' "Others, however, say the name of the one is 'Guide of Millions of Years,' and that 'Great Green Lake' is name of the other. Yet others say that 'Begetter of Millions of Years' is the name of one, and 'Great Green Lake' is the name of the other. Now, as concerning the Great God who dwelleth therein, it is Ra himself. "I pass over the way, I know the head of the Island of Maati." Egyptian Book of the Dead, Chapter 125
When all of the Egyptian inscriptions are compared to the Medinet Habu inscription it becomes clear that the names of places and people were in Egypt or Syria. Maati was a place of the double Maat, or the two truths. Natron was the name of a type of salt used in the preservation of mummys. While Hanaubu could be correctly translated as sea people, it did not refer to the Greek Isles. It referred to a region on the eastern edge of the delta. The Nile Delta resembles a triangle when seen from space. There are several lagoons, one of which is in the eastern region where the river of Egypt empties into the sea. The lagoon is enclosed from the north by a chain of islands, “northern Isles” that stretch between the two land masses on the east and west of the lagoon. The modern city of Port Said is on the eastern side with Damietta on the west. The two land masses, the main coast of Egypt and the island chain form a circle around the lagoon. It is the region of Hat Nebes and the people of Hat Nebes, the Haunabu. It was the original home of the PLST, or Pelestim, pronounced Philistim by the Hebrews, from the Port Said side of the lagoon. In more ancient times it was known as the region of Pelusium. The area on the Damietta side was known to the Hebrews as Capthor, and the inhabitants were the Egyptian Kieftu. While the Egyptians may have been aware of any settlers in the delta, they would not have expelled them unless they caused problems. That seems to be what happened during the reign of Ramesses III.
There were several branches of the Nile that spread out in the delta to form the 1,293,000 square miles of wet lands. They all had names and the Israelites would have been familiar with the Pelusiac branch. It ran through the Keshem (Goshen) region and helped to isolate that part of the delta from the east as well as the capital of Egypt. The city of Tanis is located there. It was known as Avaris during the Hyksos period, and in more ancient times as Suan (Zoan).It was also the Zahi mentioned by Ramesses III. It was the eastern most fortified city, which guarded the only entrance into Egypt from the northeast. Beyond the garrison at Zahi was the region of Goshen. M. Dothan stated that the evidence shows that it is likely the “sea people” were not foreigners to the southern Lavant. They were most likely settled in southern Canaan before the time of Ramesses III, but that would not have been necessary in order for the Bible to be correct about the “Way of the Philistines”. To travel to Canaan from the area of Goshen one would have to pass through the land of the Pelustu. The Egyptians called the road the “Way of Horus”. It was named after the god of the north, also called Hor. The interpretation of the Egyptian Snw wr to mean Okeanos is in error. The use of the phrase The Two Lands and Okeanos in the same sentence makes no sense. The two lands in Egyptian texts were always in reference to upper (southern) and lower Egypt. It had nothing to do with any place outside Egypt. The ideogram Snw, in fact, means two and wr indicates crown.
The city of Gerar has been identified as Tel Horer. Isreal Finkelstein has claimed that Tel Horer was a small town up to the 13th century bce. Other archeologists disagree and have found evidence that was a massive, 38-acre settlement during the Middle Bronze Age (2000–1750 BC), It contained earthen ramparts and large wells, the latter of which being a source of contention between the Philistines and both Abraham and Isaac. Among the excavated ruins of a holy precinct, archeologists uncovered a Minoan graffito dating back to 1600 B.C. On the graffito were Minoan signs depicting a cloth, figs, branch, and a bull's head. In another room of the sacred complex, a chalice of a Canaanite shape but with Minoan handles was also discovered. Needless to say, the connection between the Minoan and Philistine cultures is quite apparent. The existence of artifacts dating back to the Middle Bronze Age proves the early presence of the Philistine people in Canaan. People trading with the Minoans or the Mycenaeans in the Nile delta would have carried any knowledge of such pottery making with them wherever they migrated to. The name Horer is connected to the goddess Hathor and the god Horus who were both referred to as Hor, the same name given to the Biblical Mt. Hor. They were both deities of the “Residence” in the eastern Nile Delta.
The Philistines originated came from the “Great Circle of Earth”, the bend in the coastline It was also the “the bend of Horus” and the “gate of Ihotep” in the inscriptions. They were near one the busiest harbors on that part of the Mediterranean. Archeological evidence has shown that it served over 300 ships during a trading season. They would have had access to goods coming into Egypt including Mycenaean pottery. It’s also known that during the Hyksos period (18th and 17th century bce ) goods were coming in from all over the Aegean. The Medinet-Habu inscription told of the Peleset being “hung up in their towns”. Archeologists agree that the Philistines were settled in southern Canaan by Ramesses III. It seems more likely that the Philistines were going to Egypt to escape the onslaught of the invaders that had marched through Syrian and Canaan. They would naturally have come before them and Ramesses apparently saw that as leading an invasion. They got as far as the border of Egypt, the home of their ancestors, and were turned back. Some of them may have been slaughtered, but the inscription seems to indicate that Ramesses knew their intention was to settle Egypt. The Avim, (Deuteronomy 2:23), were said to have been subdued and driven northward by the Caphtorim. A trace of them is afterwards found in Joshua 13:3, where they are called Avites. Northward from Crete or Cyprus either would place them in the Greek isles, ant the Hebrews would never have heard of them. Northward from the eastern delta would be Canaan. It is most likely that the only connection the Philistines had with the Greek isle was through control of trade into Egypt, which was continued from the coast of Canaan.
