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The "Craters" on Mars, By Georg
Hinzpeter
According to the Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau of
The Lost Histories of Thoth, By Egerton
Sykes
" In the note on Manetho published in the last issue,
it suggested that he made use of a material originally inscribed on the
Siriadic columns which had been set up by Thoth and copied by Agathodaemon for
placing in the penetralia of the Temples of Egypt. However at least two other
writers appear to have made use of the same material as Manetho. The first was
Sanchuniathon whose ten volumes "History of Phoenicia" was written
about BC 1,193, seven hundred years before Manetho. The late Sir Charles
Marston, Biblical archaeologist, considered that the author must have searched
out a history written by Thoth. The other was Philo Byblos, who lived about 150
AD, four hundred and fifty years after Manetho. It is through this writer that
the works of Sanchuniathon have come down to us. That they were originally
denounced as forgeries by parctically every classical writer of the period when
they first came to the eyes of the Western World in Philo's own "History
of Phoenicia" is a tribute to their importance. However the really
interesting point is that there was a full copy of Sanchuniathon still in
existence in the Second Century of our era. However not only were these
documents separated by time but also by physical distance. Manetho seems to
have spent most of his life in the Nile Delta, while both Sanchuniathon and
Philo Byblos lived and worked in what is now Syria and Lebanon. This implies
that there were not only copies of the records disturbed all around Egypt but
also in Phoenicia as well. We are still uncertain as to what the Siriadic
Columns were in actual fact: "One of brick and one of stone", but
from the name they are associated with Syria. (Webmasters note- And with
Sirius, and Surid connection to Atlantis) Their reputed relationship with the
two Great pyramids of Giza, might indicate that the arrival of Thoth in Egypt
coincided with the date of their being built. What, however, is surprising is
that in view of the existence of copies of their text not only in Egypt but
also in other parts of the Near East, none seems to have survived until our
time. Sanchuniathon is only known to us through Philo Byblos, Manetho only
through quotations by Josephus and other writers. We can only hope that in the,
literally, hundreds of tons of unsorted and untranslated documents lying in the
cellars of every religious, or formerly religious, organizations between Cairo
and Samarkand, copies of these much wanted texts will some day turn up. It is
even possible that the Jews, while in exile in Babylon, had access to copies
kept there. Smith, in his three volume Classical Dictionary, points out that
the name Manetho was originally Manethoth, which would explain his interest in
Thothic records. Three other names could have been added, although we know
little of them. The first is Moschus of Sidon, whom Strabo considered to have
lived at the time of the Trojan War, which would make him contemporary of
Sanchuniathon, and whose Phoenician cosmogony is very similar. The Berosus, the
priest of Belus at Babylon, who lived from BC 330 to 250 BC approximately. His
Cosmogony, which contains the story of the Flood, was based upon material
current of the time. The third and last is Damascius, he flourished between 380
AD to 533 AD and produced a cosmogony which showed slight variations from those
of Sanchuniathon and Moschus. He may, however, have used Philo Byblos as his
source.
The dates are as follows:
Sanchuniathon BC 1193
Moschus BC 1100
Jews in Babylon BC 550
Manetho BC 300
Berosus BC 330-250
Philo Byblos BC 150 AD
Damascius 480-533 AD
E.S.
