Chapter 41 Chapter 43 Exploring the First Time

Regarding the beginning of the rule of the gods - "the beginning of the world", the ancient Egyptians left such a record: "the beginning of the world" is a "creation era", the water of chaos covering the world receded, the original darkness disappeared, and human beings entered the world of sunshine. , accept the gift of civilization.At the same time, the ancient Egyptians also mentioned the existence of Urshu, a half-human and half-god between man and god.Ush literally means watcher (watcher).The Egyptians had particularly vivid memories of their gods.The gods, collectively known as Neteru, were strong and beautiful, lived on earth alongside humans, and ruled over humans at Heliporios and other holy places of the Nile.Some Netru are male, some are female, each has superpowers, and can transform into men, women, birds and beasts, reptiles, trees, flowers and so on at any time according to their own ideas.However, their words and actions seem to show human-like feelings and care about all things in the world.Although they are strong and smarter than humans, under certain conditions, they can also get sick and even die or be killed①.

prehistoric record Archaeologists insist that the age of the gods, or what the ancient Egyptians called "the beginning of the world," occurs only in mythology.But the ancient Egyptians, who apparently knew better about their own past, thought otherwise.The temple once preserved important historical facts about the Egyptian kings of all dynasties, including the list of pharaohs in the past dynasties that modern scholars also admit that these materials are credible, and some even include the list of rulers in the ancient times before the first dynasty . However, only two sets of these lists survived the test of time, but both left Egypt and were kept in European museums.We will describe these lists in more detail later in this chapter.These two sets of lists are famous for Palerno Stone (Palerno Stone, which should belong to the fifth dynasty, that is, around 2500 BC) and Turin Papyrus (Turin Papyrus).In particular, the Dulin Papyrus, which was written in cursive hieroglyphics in the 13th century BC, is very precious for the temples of the 19th Dynasty.

In addition, we can confirm many historical facts about ancient Egypt from the records of Manetho, a priest of Heliopolis.Manado completed a highly regarded history of Egypt in 300 BC, and included the names of the kings of all dynasties in the book.Like the lists of the Palermo Stone and the Papyrus of Durin, Manadou pushes Egyptian history back into antiquity, beginning with the days when the gods ruled the Nile Valley. Although the historical rare books written by Manato were still widely circulated in the 9th century, they have been lost and no longer exist today.However, there are many histories that quote passages from Manado's writings, such as the Jewish chronicler Josephus (AD 60), the Christian writer Africanus (AD 300) ), Eusebius (340 A.D.), George Syncellus (800 A.D.) and others have all cited fragments of Manaldo's works.And these fragments, as Michael Hoffman of the University of Southern Carolina (University of Southern Carolina) put it, provide "a basic framework for modern people to study ancient Egypt."

Hoffman's words are very pertinent.However, when ancient Egypt scholars studied Egyptian history, although they adopted Manado's statement, they were only willing to adopt the records of the dynastic era in his works. talk.Since you trust Manalto, why do you adopt such a selective attitude?Only accepts the existence of 30 "historic" dynasties with written records, but refuses to recognize the historical facts before that.What kind of logic is this?Besides, archaeologists have already confirmed the partial authenticity of the dynastic period in Manado's chronicle.That being the case, should we deny the existence of the pre-dynastic chronology because we cannot find real evidence from archaeological excavations?Isn't this attitude immature?

demigod If we want to know Manado's thoughts, the only way is to find resources from various historical materials that preserve fragments of his works, and one of the important resources is Osibis's "Chronicle" ( Chronica) Armenian version.The book, which states at the outset, is an excerpt from "the three volumes of Manato's Egyptian History, which records the gods, demigods, spirits of the dead, and the physical kings who ruled over Egypt..." Quoting directly from Manaldo, Osibis listed the names of many gods at the beginning, including the nine gods of Heliopolis, such as Thunder, Osiris, Isis, Horos, Seth and so on.

They were the original rulers of Egypt.The thrones went on one by one without a break...after 13900 years...after the gods, the demigods ruled for 1255 years, then another branch (demigods) ruled for 1817, then 30 more Kings, who ruled for a total of 1790 years, then 10 more kings who ruled for 350 years, and then ruled by the spirits of the dead... 5813 years... These years add up to 24,925 years, which is much longer than the Genesis recorded in the Bible (5000 BC).In other words, Manato suggested that the records in the Bible were untrue.For the Christian theologian Osibius, this was indeed a difficult problem.But after thinking about it, Osibis came up with a wonderful method: "I regard the year as a cycle of the lunar calendar, and each year is 30 days, that is to say, what we call a month now, the Egyptians in the past thought it was a month." year……"

Of course, the ancient Egyptians would not think so, but after such a wonderful arrangement, Osibis condensed the 25,000 years before the dynasty into about 2,000 years, which just covers what orthodox Christian theologians believe is from the birth of Adam to the 2242 years between the floods. Another monk, George Syncellus, used a different set of techniques to escape the confusing chronology of Manalto's records.Zinsler chose to condemn Manadou with invective: "Manadole, the cursed temple monk of Egypt, he (told) us about the gods who never existed. Those gods ruled Egypt in 18895, he said. year……"

There are also some contradictory, but very interesting figures in the fragments of Manato's writings.Manato narrates repeatedly, affirming that the entire history of Egyptian civilization, from the descending of the gods to the rule of the flesh king of the 30th Dynasty, is a total of 36,525 years.This number is of course related to the 365.25 days of the Sirian year (as mentioned in the previous chapter, the time distance between Sirius this time and the appearance of the sun again before the sun rises), and at the same time represents 25 cycles of 1460 Sirian years, Or the 25 cycles of 1461 solar calendar years (the ancient Egyptian calendar is based on the 365 days of the "vague year"), which is not accidental ④.

What do these numbers, if any, represent?It's hard for us to be sure.Yet, amidst the chaos of numbers and interpretations, we are certain of one thing at least: what Manalto wants to tell us, we used to think of history as an orderly, gradual development, but he argues that , in 3100 BC, long before the birth of the First Dynasty, the beings of civilization (both gods and humans) existed in this world. Diodorus and Herodotus Maybe theologians can't agree, but among the ancient writers, there are quite a few people who support Manado.The Greek historians Diodorus Siculus and Herodotus are two of them.

For example, Diodorus visited Egypt in the 1st century AD.As C. H. Oldfather, the latest translator of his work, praised, Diodorus "collected his sources uncritically, found the original canons, and faithfully presented "the history of Egypt.That is, he did not impose his prejudices and preconceived notions on the material he collected.His work deserves special attention because he visited Egyptian monks and recorded their insights into Egypt's enigmatic past.This is what the Egyptian monks told Diodorus: In the beginning, gods and heroes ruled Egypt for nearly 18,000 years, and the last god who ruled was Horos, the son of Ises... Humans, I heard, ruled their country for almost 5,000 years...⑤

Let's examine these numbers "non-judgmentally" and see how they add up.Diodorus wrote the above passage in the 1st century AD.If we push forward 5,000 years, that is, 5,100 BC, we should have reached the era when the so-called "king of mankind" ruled Egypt.If we push back another 18,000 years, we would arrive at 23,100 BC, when "gods and heroes ruled" Egypt, which happened to be the peak of the Ice Age. Before Diodorus, a more storyteller historian visited Egypt: Herodotus in the fifth century BC.Herodotus also seems to have visited priests and monks and asked them what they knew about the highly civilized traditions that existed in the Nile Valley in the distant past, and wrote what they knew in Book 2 of the Histories, Record the Egyptian civilization and various traditional stories in the prehistoric era.In the "History" he records without comment what a monk of Heliopolis told him: During this period, they say, there were four occasions when the sun rose from different places... twice it rose from where it now set, and twice it sank from where it now rose. What does this mean? According to the analysis of the French mathematician RASchwaller de Lubicz, Herodotus came full circle, and the message that Herodotus wanted to convey (perhaps not so cleverly) to us was a kind of "time cycle" (period of time) concept.The so-called "time cycle" is the sunrise at the vernal equinox, with the constellation as the background, and the period of one and a half circles around the zodiac (zodiac). As mentioned earlier, the position of the sun at the equinoxes (spring or autumn equinoxes) passes through one of the zodiac signs, or constellations, approximately every 2160 years.In other words, it takes 260,000 years (12×2160) for the sun to travel through 12 constellations.And to go for a week and a half, it takes 390,000 years (18×2160). In the time of Herodotus, the sun on the vernal equinox faced due east at sunrise, with Aries in the background.At this time, due west is the constellation of Libra. Twelve hours later, the sun sets against the backdrop of the constellation Libra.If we turn the precession clock back half a turn—also moving back six signs in the zodiac, or 13,000 years or so—the ecliptic position is exactly reversed, and the sun will be at It rises due east against the background of Libra and sinks due west against the background of Aries.If we go back 13,000 years, this position is reversed again.At the vernal equinox, the sun rises again from due east against the background of Aries and sets due west against the background of Libra. And this cycle of the sun's movement brings us to the first 26,000 years of Herodotus' era. If we go back 13,000 years, which is half a precession cycle, we will arrive at 39,000 years ago in the time of Herodotus.At that time the equinox sunrise again rises against the background of Libra and sinks against the background of Aries. The point is this: In a period of 39,000 years, the sun rises twice from the sinking place (the sinking place, as seen from the time of Herodotus, should be Libra, that is, in 13,000 and 39,000 years before), and twice "sinking from the rising place" (the rising place, in the time of Herodotus, was Aries, and again 13,000 and 39,000 years ago) ⑥.That is, if Swara Lubitz's interpretation is correct -- and we have many reasons to believe he is -- the Greek historian Herodotus correctly recorded Below, the information provided by Egyptian monks about the precession of the sun 39,000 years ago. Palermo Stone and Durin Papyrus The figure of 39,000 years is astonishingly close to the time recorded in the Dürin Papyrus (one of the two surviving lists of ancient Egyptian kings before the First Dynasty). Durin papyrus, originally owned by the king of Sardinia, has a long history of 3,000 years and is naturally hard and brittle.When it arrived at the Dühring Museum, it was packed in a box without any packaging, so even elementary school students could imagine that when the box was opened, it had already been broken into countless pieces.It took years for scholars to glue it together into a complete document.Although the restoration has been done very well, more than half of the fragments cannot be rebuilt. If the Dulin papyrus hadn't been broken into thousands of pieces, what kind of knowledge about the creation of the world can we get from it? From the document fragments that have been stitched together, there is actually enough information to be found to be very interesting.For example, we read from records the names of 10 netru (half-human, half-god) names, all appended with emblems very similar to the names of dynastic Egyptian pharaohs.And every period of Netru's reign is written on the document, but some places are too damaged to read those numbers⑦. In the other column, the names of all the kings who ruled Upper and Lower Egypt are listed, including after the rule of God, in 3100 BC, the first pharaoh of the first dynasty, King Menes (Menes), all before the unification of Egypt. King's name.From the surviving ruins, we can read the names of the pharaohs before the dynastic era, such as "Venerables of Memphis", "Venerables of the North", and "Shemsu Hor" (Horos). companion or entourage).Xian Soho's rule lasted until the rise of Menis.The last two lines in the same column seem to have the meaning of summarizing the previous records, and the content is the most impactful: "...the king Xian Suho ruled for 13,420 years; the kings before Xian Suho ruled for 23,200 years, a total of 36,620 years." Another Palermo stone, engraved with a list of prehistoric kings, is not as old as the Durin Papyrus.As far as is known, the oldest record on the Palermo Stone is a list of 120 rulers who ruled Upper and Lower Egypt before the beginning of the dynastic era, that is, some of the unification of Egypt (3100 BC) previous records.We do not know what other, perhaps more ancient, past material was originally carved on that black basalt slab, for it is itself as incomplete as the Dürin papyrus.Since 1881, the largest tablet is kept in the Palermo Museum in Sicily, the second largest tablet is displayed in the Cairo Museum in Egypt; Preserved in the University's Bedley Collection.The original size of the slab should be 7 feet wide and 2 feet high.An expert, the late Professor Walter Emery, once said: There are probably many fragments of this precious and unusual monument, but we don't know where to search for it.From the present fragments alone, we can discover a lot of interesting information, including records of the names of all the ancient kings, the time of their reigns, and the important events that occurred during that time.The records of these events were compiled during the Fifth Dynasty, less than 700 years before the unification of the Egyptian state, so the chances of error are very small. Professor Emery specialized in the Archaic Period, that is, the history of Egypt from 32,000 BC to 2900 BC, so he is very concerned about whether more Palermo stone fragments can be found.Needless to say, if the Palermo Stone could be pulled together, it would certainly teach us more about things in ancient Egypt, but it may also give us insight into earlier times - especially the Golden Age known as the gods The "age of founding" is more understandable. note ① "Osiris and the Resurrection of Egypt", Volume 1, p. 352. ② For example, see "Egypt Before the Pharaohs", pp. 11-13. Michael Hoffman, Egypt before the Pharoahs, Michael O. Mara Books, London, 1991. ③ This is especially important in ancient Egyptology.Many monuments have been completely destroyed by the greed and ravages of the predecessors.In addition, there are many ancient Egyptian ruins that are unknown, or sunk into the Nile River and forgotten. ④ Like the Mayans (see Part 3), the ancient Egyptians were administratively convenient.A folk calendar (or ambiguous year) was developed, with a year of 365 days, but after correction with the Sirius year, every 1461 years, the same month and the same day as the Sirius year. ⑤ "History", pp. 193-194. Around the 1st century, the Roman scholar Mela (pomponious Mela) recorded something similar: "The Egyptians prided themselves on being the oldest people in the world. They claimed that since their existence, the stars have changed direction four times, and the sun two times. set from where the sun now rises." ⑥ From the table below, it can be clearly seen that: The sun rises at the vernal equinox, and the constellation is in the west at this time. 5th century BC (Herodotus' time) Aries Libra Herodotus 13,000 BC Libra Aries Herodotus 26,000 BC Aries Libra Herodotus 39,000 BC Libra Aries ⑦ For details, see "Sacred Science", p. 86. Sacred Science, p. 86.