{"id":18856,"date":"2018-12-27T21:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T21:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=18856"},"modified":"2018-12-27T21:00:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T21:00:26","slug":"the-annals-of-eutychius-of-alexandria-10th-c-ad-chapter-1-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2018\/12\/27\/the-annals-of-eutychius-of-alexandria-10th-c-ad-chapter-1-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) \u2013 chapter 1 (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s carry on from where we left off in September 19, 2016, when last we looked at Chapter 1.\u00a0 All of this material is derived from the Old Testament, albeit with some imaginative reworking, and it is of no historical value except as indicating how people in the Muslim world thought about this narrative in the 10th century AD.<\/em><\/p>\n

2. Sh\u012bt was two hundred and five years old when An\u016bsh was born.\u00a0 After Adam’s death, Sh\u012bt’s family separated themselves from the family of Cain, the accursed one.\u00a0 Sh\u012bt took his first-born An\u016bsh, Q\u012bn\u0101n, son of An\u016bsh, and Mahlali’il, son of Q\u012bn\u0101n, along with their women and their children and made them climb to the top of the mountain, where Adam was buried.\u00a0 Cain and all his sons remained in the place where Abel was killed (9). Sh\u012bt’s sons lived on that mountain, pure and holy, and they heard the voices of the angels because they were close to them and they glorified and praised God together with the angels. Therefore they, together with their women and their children, were called children of God. They did not work, they did not sow, they did not reap.\u00a0 They only fed on the fruits of the trees.\u00a0 There was no envy among them, nor injustice, nor lies. And when they swore an oath they used to say:\u00a0“No, for the blood of Abel”. They went to the top of the holy mountain every day and prostrated themselves before God by invoking blessings on the body of Adam.\u00a0 When Sh\u012bt\u00a0felt death approaching, he\u00a0made his sons swear on the blood of Abel that none of them would ever come down from that holy mountain nor would they allow any of their children to come down among the sons of Cain, the accursed one.\u00a0 Sh\u012bt lived in all nine hundred and twelve years.\u00a0 An\u016bsh had Q\u012bn\u0101n at the age of one hundred and ninety years.\u00a0 In his time the sons of Cain, the accursed,\u00a0made drums, cymbals, lyres and harps.\u00a0 They were the first to work iron and copper and all that could be obtained, and they finally\u00a0made tents in which they lived.<\/p>\n

3. An\u016bsh was three hundred years old when\u00a0Cain was killed, the accursed son of Adam and murderer of his brother Abel.\u00a0 It happened that L\u0101mikh, the seventh descendant of Cain and a shepherd, shot a dart, as a game, that struck his grandfather Cain killing him.\u00a0 Cain had continued to roam the woods, because he was a wanderer, never stopping in one place.\u00a0 Cain died at the age of nine hundred and thirty years.\u00a0 An\u016bsh lived\u00a0in all\u00a0nine hundred and five years.\u00a0 Q\u012bn\u0101n had had Mahlali’il at the age of one hundred and seventy years.\u00a0 Feeling close to death, Q\u012bn\u0101n called Mahlali’\u012bl to himself and made him swear by the blood of Abel\u00a0that he\u00a0would not allow any of his sons to come down among the sons of Cain, the accursed.\u00a0 Q\u012bn\u0101n lived\u00a0in all\u00a0nine hundred and ten years.<\/p>\n

4. Mahalali’\u012bl had Y\u0101rid at one hundred and sixty-five years.\u00a0 Q\u012bn\u0101n died when Mahlali’il was one hundred and thirty-five years old, and\u00a0was buried in the Cave of the Treasures.\u00a0 When Mahlali’\u012bl felt close to death, he called to his son Y\u0101rid and made him swear by the blood of Abel that he would not allow any of his sons to come down from the mountain among the sons of the murderer Cain, the accursed one.\u00a0 Mahlali’il lived in all eight hundred and ninety-five years. Y\u0101rid had, at one hundred and sixty-two years, Akhn\u016bkh.<\/p>\n

Of the sons of the murderer Cain, the men behaved like stallions and\u00a0whinnied after the women.\u00a0 The women, in turn, were no\u00a0better and behaved shamelessly like the men.\u00a0 They fornicated and committed adultery among themselves, in front of everyone, in the open, and two or three men\u00a0had the same woman together.\u00a0 The elders were more libidinous than the young, fathers lay with their daughters and their\u00a0sons with their mothers. The children did not know who their fathers were, nor did the fathers know who their children were.\u00a0 They played every kind of musical instrument and the echo of their cries and their games reached the top of the holy mountain.\u00a0 On hearing their cries, a hundred men among the sons of Sh\u012bt\u00a0met together\u00a0with the intention of descending from the mountain among the sons of Cain, the accursed one.\u00a0 Y\u0101rid exhorted them to swear on the blood of Abel that they would never come down from the holy mountain, but they did not receive his words and went down.\u00a0 When they were down, they saw the daughters of Cain with beautiful faces, naked and without any modesty, and were\u00a0seized\u00a0with burning lust.\u00a0 The daughters of Cain looked at them, they saw that they were beautiful and gigantic and they fell on\u00a0them like beasts, soiling their bodies.\u00a0 Thus it was that Sh\u012bt’s sons perished, fornicating with the\u00a0daughters of Cain.\u00a0 From their union with the sons of Sh\u012bt, the daughters of Cain, the accursed, gave birth to the giants (10).\u00a0 In the Torah it is said that the sons of God, also called sons of Eloh\u012bm, when they saw that the daughters of Cain were beautiful, descended to live among them and the giants were born.\u00a0 They are therefore mistaken and do not know the truth, those who assert that the angels have descended among the daughters of Adam.\u00a0 They were instead, the sons of Sh\u012bt, come down from the holy mountain among the daughters of Cain, the accursed, because the sons of Sh\u012bt, both for their purity and because they lived on the holy mountain, were called sons of Eloh\u012bm, that is children of God.\u00a0 As for those who claim that the angels have descended among the daughters of men, well they are in error, because the substance of the angels is a simple substance and by their nature they cannot have sexual relations.\u00a0 Man, on the other hand, is a compound substance and by his nature can have sexual relations, as is the case with animals.\u00a0 If the angels could have sex they would not have left any woman among the daughters of the man without contaminating her.\u00a0 When the sons of Sh\u012bt, who had come down from the mountain among the daughters of Cain, the accursed, wanted to return to the holy mountain, the rocks of the mountain became like fire and it was not possible for them to return to the mountain.\u00a0 Later, group\u00a0by group, [others also] came down from the holy mountain among the daughters of Cain, the accursed one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s carry on from where we left off in September 19, 2016, when last we looked at Chapter 1.\u00a0 All of this material is derived from the Old Testament, albeit with some imaginative reworking, and it is of no historical value except as indicating how people in the Muslim world thought about this narrative in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[672,674],"class_list":["post-18856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-eutychius","tag-eutychius-chapter-18"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}