The calculation is made by the Egyptians themselves.
The calculation is made by the Egyptians themselves."
Herodotus' claim of 341 generations from Menes to Sethos can be analyzed considering ancient Egyptian generational calculations.
These mentions often align with Herodotus' portrayal of Menes as a foundational figure in Egyptian history.
Foundation of Egyptian Civilization:
Manetho was an Egyptian priest and historian of the Ptolemaic era (3rd century BCE) who wrote "Aegyptiaca" (History of Egypt).
Manetho was an Egyptian priest and historian from the 3rd century BCE who is known for his works on the history of ancient Egypt.
His primary contribution to Egyptian historiography is his "Aegyptiaca" (History of Egypt), written in Greek.
In this work, he organized the history of Egypt into a series of dynasties, which remains the basic framework for the study of ancient Egyptian history today.
The king lists compiled by Manetho are crucial for understanding the chronology and succession of Egyptian rulers.
Sethos, according to Herodotus, was a priest of Hephaestus (the Greek name for the Egyptian god Ptah) who rose to become the king of Egypt.
"The Egyptian warriors refused to come to his aid; in his distress, the king entered into the inner sanctuary and, before the image of the god, bewailed the calamities which threatened him" .
"After this the Egyptian king, returning home in triumph, raised in the temple of Hephaestus a statue of himself, holding in his hand a mouse, and bearing the following inscription: 'Look on me and learn to reverence the gods".
He closed all the temples, and, being desirous of knowing how many loaves the people consumed, ordered every Egyptian to bring him a certain number daily, from which the amount was ascertained.".
According to Herodotus, Cheops forced labor upon the Egyptians to build the Great Pyramid.
Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian, wrote that Egyptian history spanned over 11,340 years before his own time.
This assertion is found in his work "Histories," where he writes about the long and storied past of Egypt as relayed to him by Egyptian priests and sources.
Herodotus' estimate of Egyptian history is much longer than the modern understanding, which places the beginning of the Pharaonic era around 3100 BCE with the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh, Narmer.
Timeline of Egyptian history as described by Herodotus, with quotes from his work "Histories" to illustrate the key events.
Herodotus did not provide specific details about this early period, but he described the antiquity of Egypt as relayed by Egyptian priests.
Herodotus mentions the early development of Egyptian society, emphasizing their long history.
"The Egyptians themselves say that their ancestors, in the time of the first king, lived on what the earth produced naturally" (Histories, Book 2, 2.93).
Herodotus provides insights into early Egyptian customs and society.
"In ancient times, the Egyptians had no kings, and the country was ruled by the priests" (Histories, Book 2, 2.142).
"The Egyptians were the first to establish the solar year" (Histories, Book 2, 2.4).
Donnelly points out that the Egyptian god Amun-Ra, a supreme deity, shares similarities with Zeus in terms of power and authority.
In "Atlantis: The Antediluvian World" by Ignatius Donnelly, it is stated that the Egyptians, the Guanches of the Canary Islands, and the Peruvians all shared this belief and practiced mummification as a result.
Donnelly mentions that mummification was practiced by the Guanches of the Canary Islands, Egyptians, and Peruvians, indicating a widespread tradition that transcended geographical boundaries.
Donnelly's text provides details on how the Egyptians and Aztecs performed mummification by extracting the bowels and replacing them with aromatic substances.
The one in the Atlantean land, that sank, which will rise and is rising again; another in the place of the records that leadeth from the Sphinx to the hall of records, in the Egyptian land; and another in the Aryan or Yucatan land, where the temple there is overshadowing same.
We can trace it back through various cultures until we reach the ancient Egyptians and early forms of the Phoenician, Hebrew, and Cushite scripts, but beyond this, the historical trail fades.
The Egyptians referred to their hieroglyphic writing system as "the language of the gods" (Lenormant and Cheval, "Ancient History of the East," Vol.
According to the Phoenicians, the art of writing was invented by Taautus, known to the Egyptians as Thoth, or "the first Hermes." This figure is associated with Maia, a daughter of Atlas, and the Maya of Central America (Baldwin's "Prehistoric Nations," p.
Various ancient civilizations, such as the Egyptians, Ethiopians, and Israelites, refrained from consuming pork from early times due to its potential health hazards, like trichinosis, demonstrating a profound understanding of health long before modern discoveries.
This practice was widely adopted by ancient civilizations like the Egyptians, Ethiopians, Phoenicians, and Hebrews.
a darker brownish-red race similar to Central Americans, Berbers, and Egyptians,
Egyptians referred to the loadstone as the bone of Haroeri and iron as the bone of Typhon, linking the elements to their deities and hinting at early knowledge of the magnet's properties.
Astronomical knowledge was highly advanced among the Chaldeans, Egyptians, and Greeks, indicating a sophisticated understanding inherited from an earlier civilization.
Adonis, for example, is a significant figure in both Greek and Phœnician mythology, while similar connections are found between Egyptian and Turanian mythologies.
"Among the earliest known types is the crux ansata, vulgarly called 'the key of the Nile,' because of its being found sculptured or otherwise represented so frequently upon Egyptian and Coptic monuments.
It was the symbol of symbols, the mystical Tau, 'the bidden wisdom,' not only of the ancient Egyptians but also of the Chaldeans, Phœnicians, Mexicans, Peruvians, and of every other ancient people commemorated in history, in either hemisphere, and is formed very similarly to our letter T, with a roundlet, or oval, placed immediately above it.
The reader will not have failed to observe that it is most usually associated with water; it was 'the key of the Nile,' that mystical instrument by means of which, in the popular judgment of his Egyptian devotees, Osiris produced the annual revivifying inundations of the sacred stream; it is discernible in that mysterious pitcher or vase portrayed on the brazen table of Bembus, before-mentioned, with its four lips discharging as many streams of water in opposite directions; it was the emblem of the water-deities of the Babylonians in the East and of the Gothic nations in the West, a
Thus it was expressed upon those circular and sacred cakes of the Egyptians, composed of the richest materials-of flour, of honey, of milk--and with which the serpent
The prototype was not the Egyptian, but the Babylonian crux ansata, the lower member of which constitutes a conical support for the oval or sphere above it.
According, to Herodotus, they were introduced by the Hyksos; and Proclus, the Platonic philosopher, connects them with the science of astronomy--a science which, he adds, the Egyptians derived from the Chaldeans.
He considers the analogy established in eleven particulars, as follows: 1, the site chosen is the same; 2, the structures are orientated with slight variation; 3, the line through the centres of the structures is in the astronomical meridian; 4, the construction in grades and steps is the same; 5, in both cases the larger pyramids are dedicated to the sun; 6, the Nile has "a valley of the dead," as in Teotihuacan there is "a street of the dead;" 7, some monuments in each class have the nature of fortifications; 8, the smaller mounds are of the same nature and for the same purpose; 9, both pyramids have a small mound joined to one of their faces; 10, the openings discovered in the Pyramid of the Moon are also found in some Egyptian pyramids; 11, the interior arrangements of the pyramids are analogous.
It is objected that the American edifices are different in form from the Egyptian, in that they are truncated, or flattened at the top; but this is not an universal rule.
Bradford thinks that some of the Egyptian pyramids, and those which with some reason it has been supposed are the most ancient, are precisely similar to the Mexican teocalli." ("North Americans of Antiquity" p.
The Egyptian pyramids all stand with their sides to the cardinal
The Egyptian pyramids were penetrated by small passage-ways; so were the Mexican.
In both the Egyptian the American pyramids the outside of the structures was covered with a thick coating of smooth, shining cement.
Chronos then travels the habitable world and gives Egypt to the god Taaut, the inventor of the alphabet, whom the Egyptians called Thoth (see https://drumsofatlantis.com/thoth), "the god of letters, the clerk of the under-world".
He calls these "doubtless the twelve gods from whom the Egyptians derived their kings."
Egyptian Monuments: Egyptian priests are depicted with deformed heads, suggesting either artificial modification or a natural racial characteristic.
The depiction of red men in Egyptian art and black figures in Central American monuments implies ancient trans-oceanic interactions.
Civilizations around the Mediterranean, including the Aryans, Egyptians, and Chinese, trace their origins or significant influences to this region, suggesting a shared connection to Atlantis.
The practice of embalming the dead, found among the Guanches, Egyptians, Assyrians, and American civilizations, suggests a common religious belief in bodily resurrection.
The Egyptians also considered themselves red men and depicted themselves as such on monuments, emphasizing a noble lineage.
The ancient Egyptians recognized four races: red, yellow, black, and white.
Monuments in Yucatan, such as the "Cara Gigantesca," bear symbolic adornments similar to those of Egyptian and Hindoo priests.
Agriculture was central to both Atlanteans and the American civilizations, as well as the Egyptians.
The Guanches of the Canary Islands, Egyptians, and Peruvians all believed in the immortality of the soul and preserved their dead through mummification.
It refers altogether to the Mediterranean races, the Aryans, the Cushites, the Phœnicians, the Hebrews, and the Egyptians.
Donnelly says that many essential arts and inventions go back to Atlantis, or to the ancient Egyptian civilization, which grew out of Atlantis.
According to Herodotus, the Egyptian priests told him their written history went back 11,340 years before his time.
Renan saw Egyptian civilization as already mature at its start.
The same traits show up in Indo-European, Egyptian and Chinese civilizations.
Legacy of Atlantis: many essential arts and technologies go back to Atlantis and early Egyptian civilization.
An unchanging ancient civilization: Egyptian civilization appeared mature from its earliest days and changed little for thousands of years.
Egyptian Silence: Egyptian records do not mention a flood, suggesting they preserved an accurate history of Atlantis's destruction and did not create flood myths.
The Egyptian ruler, of a Toltec civilisation, tried to bribe the emigrants to stay.
That drew an Egyptian attack, and the fanatics were wiped out.
From the Ptolemaic period onwards, Egyptian recipes for kyphi, an aromatic compound, included cinnamon and cassia.
Synchronisms with Egyptian and Mesopotamian records allow for more precise dating of certain events mentioned in the Bible, helping to establish a timeline for the Israelite monarchy.
The ancient Egyptians tied it to their sun god, Ra, and to the city of Heliopolis.
The Bennu bird was an ancient Egyptian deity.
In Egyptian myth, Bennu created itself and played a key part in creating the world.
His name is related to the Egyptian verb "wbn," meaning "to rise in brilliance" or "to shine."
The Egyptians painted it in their temples.
The Egyptians told him it is a large bird with gold and red feathers, somewhat like an eagle.
Heliopolis was an ancient Egyptian city devoted to the sun god.
Still, he writes it down as the Egyptians told it to him.
The Egyptians have depicted this bird in their temples, and Herodotus himself admits that he has never seen the bird, but only pictures of it.
According to the Egyptian accounts, the phoenix is a large bird with golden and red plumage, and it bears some resemblance to an eagle.
Nonetheless, he faithfully records the account as it was told to him by the Egyptians.
Then it flies to the Egyptian city of Heliopolis, the "City of the Sun." It lays the myrrh egg on the altar of the sun god.
The young phoenix then flies to the Egyptian city of Heliopolis, known as the "City of the Sun," and places the myrrh egg on the altar of the sun god.
Egyptians stored knowledge in a system of 52 archetypes represented today as poker cards, used to reflect the 52 weeks of the year and guide human development in heart, mind, material engagement, and spirituality.