“ There is, then, says he, a certain region of M.gypt, called Delta, about the summit of which the streams of the Nile are divided, and i in which there is a province called Saitical.” In the first place, itis worth while to observe how the narration always delivers things comprehended, proceeding from such as are more comprehensive ; from Egypt, indeed, the river, from this Delta, from this the Saitic province, and from this Sais, sacred to Minerva.
Sais, therefore, must be sacerdotally referred to the constellation called the Bear, not becanse it is situated under it, nor on account of its coldness, but as participating of a certain peculiar ettlux of the God [who presides over that constellation].
Hence likewise Sais is not shaken by earthquakes, in consequence of receiving a firm establishment on account of the place about the pole.
“ Of this provinee, the greatest city is Sais, from which also king Ama-sis derived his origin.
For, according to him, some of the inhabitants of Sais came to renew their alliance with the Athenians.
If, therefore, there is one tutelar Goddess of the two cities Sais and Athens, the inhabitants of Sais are very properly said to be lovers of the Athenians, as being ina certain respect allied to them: for the aflinity is not wholly perfect.
And on his inquiring about ancient affairs of those priests who possessed a knowledge of such particulars superior to others, he perceived that neither himself, nor any one of the Grecks (as he himself declared), had any knowledge of things of this kind.” Solon, on account of his political wisdom, and on account of the dignity and worth of his city, justly appeared to be deserving of honor to the priests of Sais.
Solon, however, met at Sais with a priest called Pateneit ; but at Heliopolis, witha priest called Ochlapi ; and at Sebennytus, with one whose name was Ethimon, as we learn from the histories of the Egyptians.
And perhaps it was the priest of Sais, who says as follows to Solon : “ But upon this, one of those more ancient priests exclaimed, O Solon, Solon, you Grecks are always children, nor is there an aged Greck among you.” The Egyptian priest is ancient, in order that while he reproves he may not be intolerable, and may have a probable reason for teaching about archeology.
113 are more ancient than the inhabitants of Sais; the Athenians being arranged according to the mundane causes of the whole contrariety of things.
Conformably to this mode therefore, the Egyptian says, that Minerva ts allotted the city which is named after her, and also his own city Sais; inferring this perhaps from the great similitude of the life of the citizens to the Goddess; and perhaps also perceiving that there was an allotment of this kind, from the telestic art, and sacerdotal works.
It is not therefore at all wonderful, if one divinity should be said) to be allotted both Athens and Sais.
What however are the thousand years, according to which the Athenians are prior to the inhabitants of Sais?
first allotted Athens, and) afterwards Sais.
Athens is given nine thousand years, Sais eight thousand, and Athens a thousand years of priority.
Sais, not a colony story Plato himself tells.
The greatest city of the Saitic province is Sais, from which Amasis came.
Theopompus says the people of Sais were a colony from Athens.
From the histories of the Egyptians, Solon met Pateneit at Sais, Ochlapi at Heliopolis, and Ethimon at Sebennytus.
Proclus thinks the speaker may have been the priest of Sais (p.
Egypt, the river, Delta, the Saitic province, Sais sacred to Minerva.
Sais is referred sacerdotally to the Bear, not because it stands under that constellation and not because of cold, but as sharing a peculiar efflux of the god of that constellation.
Hence Sais is not shaken by earthquakes, because it has a firm seat from the place about the pole (pp.
The greatest city is Sais, and Amasis came from it.
Atticus says Theopompus altered the history through envy, and that some of the inhabitants of Sais came to renew their alliance with the Athenians.
Solon, however, met at Sais with a priest called Pateneit; but at Heliopolis, with a priest called Ochlapi; and at Sebennytus, with one whose name was Ethimon, as we learn from the histories of the Egyptians.
Perhaps it was the priest of Sais who then said, O Solon, Solon, you Greeks are always children, nor is there an aged Greek among you.
The pages that follow, before the thousand years, are this same division carried into the words "selecting the places." One divinity can be allotted both Athens and Sais.
If Minerva was first allotted Athens and afterwards Sais, a beginning in time implies an end in time.
An account of the transactions of Sais for eight thousand years is preserved in the sacred writings.
Plato says Solon, the Athenian lawgiver, heard the story from priests in Sais, a city in the Nile delta, around 560 BC.
The Egyptian priest says Sais was founded 8,000 years before Solon, and Athens 9,000 years before (Timaeus 23e).
The 8,000 and 9,000 question: The 1956 English edition uses 8,000 months, the age of Sais.
The priest of Sais tells this myth to Solon in the Timaeus.
Plato presents the story as genuine history preserved by Egyptian priests at Sais.
We were taught this by Babaji from Haidakhan, Jesus, Yogananda, Sathya Sai Baba, Yamamuto, Lao, Han, Danish Lady, Sufi, Yasin, Vasilyok, Ushastik, Borovik and His Mom, Assyris, Radek Volynsky, and Rada.
We learned this, primarily, from such Divine Teachers as Adler, Pythagoras, Konstantinos, Larisa, Thoth-the-Atlantean, Ngomo, Odin, Sathya Sai Baba, Babaji from Haidakhan, Krishna, Eagle, Yamamuto, Kayr, Helena Sabashnikova, Kurgan-Bashi, Sacral, Ptahhotep, Juanito, Lada, Boris, Maenuel, Eremey, Yasin, Bogatyr, Giant, Wrestler, Sophia, Thya, Hajji Bei Murat, Kim, Lorenz Byron, Konrad Lorenz, Sufi Grand Master, Sulia [15].
This method was taught to us on different places of power by Kayr, Yamamata, Yogashira, Sathya Sai Baba, Nikifor, Adler, Thoth-the-Atlantean, Eagle, Eaglestform, Emil, Radomir, Yasin, Volhva, Sulia, Juan Matus, and Genaro [15].
In Timaeus and Critias, Egyptian priests in Sais (modern-day Sa el-Hagar) tell Solon about the "ancient Greeks" who lived 9,000 years earlier.
This seems not too far-fetched, since Moses was reared in the Egyptian tradition, in a royal household, and probably had access to many religious writings and teachings now lost with the passing of the archives of Egypt, in Alexandria, Heliopolis, and Sais.
Atlantis is the legendary continent mentioned by the Greek philosopher Plato, who in one of his "conversations" told how the priests of the Egyptian Temple of Sais related to Solon, the great lawmaker the story of its destruction about 9000 years B.
Investigate the east of the ruins of the temple of Sais and the cemetery in Chacuna Valley.
"An inscription which I excavated at the Lion Gate at Mycenae in Crete recites that Misor, from whom, according to the inscription, the Egyptians were descended, was the child of Taaut or Thoth, the God of History, and that Taaut was the emigrated son of a 'priest of Atlantis, who having fallen in love with a daughter of King Chronos, escaped and landed after many wanderings in Egypt.' He built the first temple at Sais and there taught the wisdom of his native land.
My grandfather had written that I should first pay attention to the ruins of the Temple of Sais and the Chucuna Valley in America.
I arrived first in Egypt and started to excavate around the ruins of Sais.
And here were two of the same kind in a sarcophagus of a priest of the First Dynasty of the Temple of Sais, the temple which held the records of Atlantis and whose priest had recited them to Solon--their temple which had been founded by a son of Atlantis who had run away with a "daughter of Chronos," the name of which was on the vase of Hissarlik that held the coin!
The priests of Sais told Solon that Atlantis had been destroyed 9,000 years before their conversation.
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Lika was sprung from the corporeal star Atos, which traversed the roads, Yatas-koowen, of the south circuit of Thoese, the vortex of another far-off sun, and was raised to etherea in the cycle of Sai-kah, one hundred and twenty-five thousand years, by Meth-ya, Goddess of Ori-iyi, afterward Chieftainess of Yeuna-gamaya.
In the city of Sais, he conversed with a high priest who shared the tale of Atlantis with him.
A priest of Sais said to Solon,
The Egyptian priest of Sais told Solon that the myth of Phaëthon, the son of Helios, having attempted to drive the chariot of the sun, and thereby burning up the earth, referred to "a declination of the bodies moving round the earth and in the heavens" (comets), which caused a "great conflagration upon the earth," from which those only escaped who lived near rivers and seas.
The priest of Sais told Solon that before "the great deluge of all" Athens possessed a noble race, who performed many noble deeds, the last and greatest of which was resisting the attempts of Atlantis to subjugate them; and after this came the destruction of Atlantis, and the same great convulsion which overwhelmed that island destroyed a number of the Greeks.
Reflecting on a childhood experience, Pamela recalls asking Shirdi Sai Baba why humans are not happy, despite having basic needs fulfilled.
Psenophis and Sonkhis (Sonchis): Egyptian priests from Heliopolis and Sais, who told Solon about Atlantis (per Plutarch).
Solon’s Role: Solon learned of Atlantis from Egyptian priests Psenophis and Sonkhis in Sais and Heliopolis, intending to share it poetically with Greeks (per Plutarch).
"He [Solon] also spent some time in studies with Psenophis of Heliopolis [in Egypt] and Sonkhis (Sonchis) of Sais, who were very learned priests.
According to Plato, the Atlantis story had its origins in the Egyptian city of Sais, in the Nile Delta.
Sais was later called the City of Hagar.
Multiple Floods: Randolph acknowledges multiple flood events, including the well-known Noah's Flood and a prior, mysterious flood referenced in early Chinese annals and conversations between the Priests of Sais and Solon.
I allude to the “Mysterious Event” so dimly alluded to in early Chinese annals; and, perhaps, may be the same terrible catastrophe alluded to by the Priests of Sais, in their conversations with Solon, something like six centuries before the Christian Era.
The description of that land given to Solon by Sonchis, priest at Sais; its destruction by earthquakes, and submergence, recorded by Plato in his Timaeus, have been told and retold so many times that it is useless to encumber these pages with a repetition of it.
Sonchis at Sais, earthquakes, and submergence sit on the same trail as Timaeus.