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rising of Sirius coincided with the annual inundation of the Nile Delta. In Egyptian
myth, Thaut arrived at the Delta after cataclysmic flooding destroyed a former
age, the Tep Zepi, or “First Time.” Doubtless, that ancient deluge symbolically
correlated with the yearly rising of the Nile, because the results of both were
abundance. With Thaut’s arrival, pharaonic civilization bloomed again follow-
ing an excess of nature, just as the yearly overflowing of the river brings fertile,
alluvial soil.
He carried “emerald tablets” on which were engraved the documented wisdom
of the First Time. The word “emerald” may not be literally understood, but in-
tended to imply a precious stone of some kind, or, more probably, it meant that
the information preserved on the stones was precious. Thaut is credited in both
Egyptian and Arab myth as the builder of the Great Pyramid. The story of his
Siriadic Columns was told by two leading historians of classical times: Manetho, a
third-centuryB.C. Egyptian priest commissioned to write a chronicle of Dynastic
Civilization by the Ptolemies, and Flavius Josephus, prominent Jewish scholar of
the first century A.D. Josephus ascribed the twin columns to Seth, who he described,
not as a god, but a “patriarch.” Although worshiped from pre-dynastic and early
dynastic times in Upper Egypt, Seth was thereafter demonized by the Followers
of Horus, so little of his original cult may be inferred. Unique to the rest of the
gods, however, he was a redhead, like many Atlanteans.
The memorial pillars may have been the same stele inscribed with the history of
Atlantis that were seen by Solon and Krantor, the Greek visitors to Neith’s temple
at Sais in the Nile Delta, and upon which Plato’s Atlantean account was based.
Kritias describes a sacred column inscribed with ancestral laws at the center of the
Temple of Poseidon in Atlantis. It seems related to Thaut’s “Siriadic Columns” and
those mentioned by Plato.Slaying of the Labu
A Babylonian description of the Atlantean flood predating Plato’s account by
1,000 years, it reads in part: “the mighty Irra seized away the beams [of the dams],
and Ninurta coming caused the locks to burst. The Annunaki bore torches, making
the land to glow with their gleaming. The noise of Adad [a volcanic mountain]
came unto heaven, and a great water-spout reached to the sky. Everything light
turned to darkness. For in one day, the hurricane swiftly blew like the shock of
battle over the people.” Ishtar wailed, “Like a brood of fish, they [the people] now
fill the sea!” After six days, “the sea became calm, the cyclone died away, the Deluge
ceased. I [Xiusthros] looked upon the sea, and the sound of voices had ended.”
(See Xiusthros)Sobata
Seafarers who covered great distances in small wooden vessels known in
Okinawan dialect as Sabani, or Sa-bune, after which the sailors are still remembered