I was looking at this old kinglist, and recognized some names and a new pattern, I noticed some r... more I was looking at this old kinglist, and recognized some names and a new pattern, I noticed some royal non-pharaohs, who are currently list as the children of Ahmose, listed as pharaohs. The family tree is not particularly clear around Ahmose and later Queen Ahmose. The picture from the tomb of Inerkhau is an example of this: Summary of KingList in Book of Sothis: • 1-6 Early Kings like Menes. Unclear. • 7,8,9 Serapis before Sesonkhosis(Sesotris) and Amenemes(Amenhemet); Middle kingdom; this is a followup on Manethos Osarsiph story[Osiris-Apis], looking for Serapis (who should instead be Ahmose Sapair). • 10-17 is the cool part; contains the family trees of Ramose[Armiÿses](son of Ahmose Ankh, son of Ahmose Sapair, son of Ahmose) and Hatshepsut(daughter of Queen Ahmose, daughter of Siamun, son of Kamose)
The Mythology of Nereus is a pre-trojan war era myth that has implications on Multiple Cultures a... more The Mythology of Nereus is a pre-trojan war era myth that has implications on Multiple Cultures around the Mediterranean. The Egyptians were known to deify Pharoahs, and the Greeks were known to Deify Heroes. This myth has Canaanite ties as well, and this figure possibly appears in the Bible as Nahor.
Standard Biblical Chronology, or the literal reading of early biblical dates has been problematic... more Standard Biblical Chronology, or the literal reading of early biblical dates has been problematic for thousands of years. With Kings like Methusaleh supposedly living 969 years at a time when average life expectancy was 52 years old is problematic. The church fathers from 2000 year commented, that maybe the 969 was months, and that maybe this number was before a Phoenician Calendar change from months to years. 969 / 12 = 80.75 years; that seems more plausible to me. If you doubt the years in Genesis, like me, one approach would be to try and convert all of the numbers like the above method. However, borrowing from "A Simple Chronology of Greek Mythology", I throw out the numbers entirely, and rebuild a chronology based on "Oldest son" methodology.
This paper continues where the Timeus left off. Ther are a bunch of controversial passages within... more This paper continues where the Timeus left off. Ther are a bunch of controversial passages within the Critias. These stem from mistranslations, intentional mistakes, wild speculation, etc… The purpose of this paper is to identify and correct the mistakes, and add additional insight. The Critias is long and in most parts well-translated and irrelevant, so I'm selecting only interesting passages, where I can add insight. I'm using the Bury Translation, with a little bit of the Latin Cornarius thrown in. Note: I think the Henry Cary translation is better than Bury, but Bury is the standard.
There are a bunch of controversial passages within the Timaeus. This has led to 50k books on the... more There are a bunch of controversial passages within the Timaeus. This has led to 50k books on the topic with a bunch of different interpretations of the same passages. These stem from mistranslations, intentional mistakes, wild speculation, etc… The purpose of this paper is to identify and correct the mistakes, and add additional insight. The Timaeus is long and in most parts well-translated and irrelevant, so I’m selecting only interesting passages, where I can add insight. I’m using the Bury Translation, with a little bit of Calcidius thrown in.
The myth of Danaus and Egyptus is a fun one. Io goes Egypt and creates a colony in Canopus. This ... more The myth of Danaus and Egyptus is a fun one. Io goes Egypt and creates a colony in Canopus. This colony lasts for 5 generations. Belus of the 4 th generation, settles his sons Danaus in Libya and Egyptus in Arabia. Could these be real people? And if so, when did they live? The archaeological evidence for Danaus and Egyptus comes from the Kom El Hatan statue of Amenhotep 3. This includes geographic locations or cities. Under the term Tanaja, it mentions a bunch of cities in mainland Greece, and under the term Keftiu, it mentions a bunch of cities in Crete. There is also Linear B Greek text using the term a-ku-pi-ti-jo around this time.
Phaethon was a chariot god, son of the sun, who lost control of his chariot and drowned in the Er... more Phaethon was a chariot god, son of the sun, who lost control of his chariot and drowned in the Eridanos River. He was mourned by his sisters, the Heliades. This Greek myth is the story of King Tut.
This paper links Diodorus Siculus mythological tale to the real-world historical Syrian Campaign ... more This paper links Diodorus Siculus mythological tale to the real-world historical Syrian Campaign of Thutmose IV. It identifies the Amazons as the Mitanni.
Later, It also finds Libyan Amazons in the Libyan Campaign of Merneptah against the Maryannu.
Methodology: Over 2000 year ago, Herodotus described a method of chronology of counting a large n... more Methodology: Over 2000 year ago, Herodotus described a method of chronology of counting a large number of generations, and assigning a number of years to it: "Agron son the sovereignty from these and held it, because of an oracle; and they ruled for twenty-two generations, or five hundred and five years, son succeeding father, down to Candaules son of Myrsus."-Herodotus Histories 1.7.4 505 years / 22 generations = 23 years per generation. I like that number and have derived and expanded my methodology from this approach. This general approach is called "Eldest Son Theory", where kingship is often passed on from father to son. This theory says that the average king sires his eldest son at 23 years old, and lives to about 53. The average king will start his reign around 30 and rule until he dies at 53. Then his son will on average do the same, and outlive his father by 23 years. This methodology from its simplistic description above, certainly sounds inaccurate and like it would have a lot of problems. For instance, what if a king dies at 40 or 60? How would that impact his son? What if a king takes charge at 20 instead of 30? This is a statistical model of approximation with obvious deficiencies and potentially large individual margin of errors. And we will study those. However, if a father lives and reigns until 58(28 years)(5 extra years), and his son takes the reigns at 35 instead of 30… then his son still dies at 53 with a reign of 18 years(5 fewer years). So living longer or shorter is not a problem. This is a classic fence-post problem. The model self-corrects over time. Validating the Methodology: I have chosen to validate this methodology against Egypt, starting with the 18 th dynasty. I could have chosen Assyria or Babylon or Israel; I have validated those as well. They are not included in this paper. For Egypt, I accept the standard chronology which numerous Egyptologists have dedicated hundreds of man years to create, with thousands of radiocarbon dates to validate. Here are 67 generations of Pharoahs, encomapassing over 1500 years to validate the Methodology against:
I was looking at this old kinglist, and recognized some names and a new pattern, I noticed some r... more I was looking at this old kinglist, and recognized some names and a new pattern, I noticed some royal non-pharaohs, who are currently list as the children of Ahmose, listed as pharaohs. The family tree is not particularly clear around Ahmose and later Queen Ahmose. The picture from the tomb of Inerkhau is an example of this: Summary of KingList in Book of Sothis: • 1-6 Early Kings like Menes. Unclear. • 7,8,9 Serapis before Sesonkhosis(Sesotris) and Amenemes(Amenhemet); Middle kingdom; this is a followup on Manethos Osarsiph story[Osiris-Apis], looking for Serapis (who should instead be Ahmose Sapair). • 10-17 is the cool part; contains the family trees of Ramose[Armiÿses](son of Ahmose Ankh, son of Ahmose Sapair, son of Ahmose) and Hatshepsut(daughter of Queen Ahmose, daughter of Siamun, son of Kamose)
The Mythology of Nereus is a pre-trojan war era myth that has implications on Multiple Cultures a... more The Mythology of Nereus is a pre-trojan war era myth that has implications on Multiple Cultures around the Mediterranean. The Egyptians were known to deify Pharoahs, and the Greeks were known to Deify Heroes. This myth has Canaanite ties as well, and this figure possibly appears in the Bible as Nahor.
Standard Biblical Chronology, or the literal reading of early biblical dates has been problematic... more Standard Biblical Chronology, or the literal reading of early biblical dates has been problematic for thousands of years. With Kings like Methusaleh supposedly living 969 years at a time when average life expectancy was 52 years old is problematic. The church fathers from 2000 year commented, that maybe the 969 was months, and that maybe this number was before a Phoenician Calendar change from months to years. 969 / 12 = 80.75 years; that seems more plausible to me. If you doubt the years in Genesis, like me, one approach would be to try and convert all of the numbers like the above method. However, borrowing from "A Simple Chronology of Greek Mythology", I throw out the numbers entirely, and rebuild a chronology based on "Oldest son" methodology.
This paper continues where the Timeus left off. Ther are a bunch of controversial passages within... more This paper continues where the Timeus left off. Ther are a bunch of controversial passages within the Critias. These stem from mistranslations, intentional mistakes, wild speculation, etc… The purpose of this paper is to identify and correct the mistakes, and add additional insight. The Critias is long and in most parts well-translated and irrelevant, so I'm selecting only interesting passages, where I can add insight. I'm using the Bury Translation, with a little bit of the Latin Cornarius thrown in. Note: I think the Henry Cary translation is better than Bury, but Bury is the standard.
There are a bunch of controversial passages within the Timaeus. This has led to 50k books on the... more There are a bunch of controversial passages within the Timaeus. This has led to 50k books on the topic with a bunch of different interpretations of the same passages. These stem from mistranslations, intentional mistakes, wild speculation, etc… The purpose of this paper is to identify and correct the mistakes, and add additional insight. The Timaeus is long and in most parts well-translated and irrelevant, so I’m selecting only interesting passages, where I can add insight. I’m using the Bury Translation, with a little bit of Calcidius thrown in.
The myth of Danaus and Egyptus is a fun one. Io goes Egypt and creates a colony in Canopus. This ... more The myth of Danaus and Egyptus is a fun one. Io goes Egypt and creates a colony in Canopus. This colony lasts for 5 generations. Belus of the 4 th generation, settles his sons Danaus in Libya and Egyptus in Arabia. Could these be real people? And if so, when did they live? The archaeological evidence for Danaus and Egyptus comes from the Kom El Hatan statue of Amenhotep 3. This includes geographic locations or cities. Under the term Tanaja, it mentions a bunch of cities in mainland Greece, and under the term Keftiu, it mentions a bunch of cities in Crete. There is also Linear B Greek text using the term a-ku-pi-ti-jo around this time.
Phaethon was a chariot god, son of the sun, who lost control of his chariot and drowned in the Er... more Phaethon was a chariot god, son of the sun, who lost control of his chariot and drowned in the Eridanos River. He was mourned by his sisters, the Heliades. This Greek myth is the story of King Tut.
This paper links Diodorus Siculus mythological tale to the real-world historical Syrian Campaign ... more This paper links Diodorus Siculus mythological tale to the real-world historical Syrian Campaign of Thutmose IV. It identifies the Amazons as the Mitanni.
Later, It also finds Libyan Amazons in the Libyan Campaign of Merneptah against the Maryannu.
Methodology: Over 2000 year ago, Herodotus described a method of chronology of counting a large n... more Methodology: Over 2000 year ago, Herodotus described a method of chronology of counting a large number of generations, and assigning a number of years to it: "Agron son the sovereignty from these and held it, because of an oracle; and they ruled for twenty-two generations, or five hundred and five years, son succeeding father, down to Candaules son of Myrsus."-Herodotus Histories 1.7.4 505 years / 22 generations = 23 years per generation. I like that number and have derived and expanded my methodology from this approach. This general approach is called "Eldest Son Theory", where kingship is often passed on from father to son. This theory says that the average king sires his eldest son at 23 years old, and lives to about 53. The average king will start his reign around 30 and rule until he dies at 53. Then his son will on average do the same, and outlive his father by 23 years. This methodology from its simplistic description above, certainly sounds inaccurate and like it would have a lot of problems. For instance, what if a king dies at 40 or 60? How would that impact his son? What if a king takes charge at 20 instead of 30? This is a statistical model of approximation with obvious deficiencies and potentially large individual margin of errors. And we will study those. However, if a father lives and reigns until 58(28 years)(5 extra years), and his son takes the reigns at 35 instead of 30… then his son still dies at 53 with a reign of 18 years(5 fewer years). So living longer or shorter is not a problem. This is a classic fence-post problem. The model self-corrects over time. Validating the Methodology: I have chosen to validate this methodology against Egypt, starting with the 18 th dynasty. I could have chosen Assyria or Babylon or Israel; I have validated those as well. They are not included in this paper. For Egypt, I accept the standard chronology which numerous Egyptologists have dedicated hundreds of man years to create, with thousands of radiocarbon dates to validate. Here are 67 generations of Pharoahs, encomapassing over 1500 years to validate the Methodology against:
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Later, It also finds Libyan Amazons in the Libyan Campaign of Merneptah against the Maryannu.
Later, It also finds Libyan Amazons in the Libyan Campaign of Merneptah against the Maryannu.