The Beginnings of History According to the Bible And the Traditions of Oriental Peoples. : From the Creation of Man to the Deluge.
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I., p. 507). But in this place we have no hesitancy in supposing that the Zoroastrian doctors in the time of the Sassanides calculated according to the Biblical genealogy, which certainly was not unknown to them. (') See the table of the system of Thebes and of that of Mem- phis, in Brugsch, Histoire d'Egypte, 2diEd., p. 20. [History of Egypt under the Pharaohs, London, 1879, I., pp. 27, 28. Tk.]— The list of Thebes contains but six names, because it cuts off from the number of legitimate sover...eigns the murderer of Osiris, Set, who was regarded as an usurper and enemy. (^) C Miiller, Fragm. historic. Grsec, vol. II., pp. 526, 530 and 533. The list copied by Georgius Synoellus [CAron., p. 19], which follows the Memphite system, contains fifteen names, among them six gods and nine demigods ; but Horus is wrongly reckoned among the demigods, for he is the last king of the dynasty of the gods, hence the correct restoration would make out seven gods and eight demigods among the fifteen names.
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