{"id":18884,"date":"2019-01-19T20:47:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T20:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=18884"},"modified":"2019-01-19T20:47:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T20:47:25","slug":"the-annals-of-eutychius-of-alexandria-10th-c-ad-chapter-1-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2019\/01\/19\/the-annals-of-eutychius-of-alexandria-10th-c-ad-chapter-1-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) \u2013 chapter 1 (part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing…. Part of the fun in this is trying to recognise the familiar biblical characters behind their unfamiliar Arabic names<\/em>!<\/p>\n

5. When Y\u0101rid felt near death, he called to him his son Akhn\u016bkh, and M\u0101t\u016bsh\u0101likh, son of Akhn\u016bkh, L\u0101mikh, son of M\u0101t\u016bsh\u0101likh and N\u016bh, son of L\u0101mikh, and\u00a0said to\u00a0them: “Do not let any of you come down from this holy mountain.\u00a0 Your children have already fallen and are lost, and I know that God – powerful and exalted – will not let you remain on this holy mountain.\u00a0 But whoever of you will come out of this place, let him take with him the body of Adam and these offerings and take them where God will command him”.\u00a0 Y\u0101rid lived in all nine hundred and sixty-two years.<\/p>\n

Akhn\u016bkh had had M\u0101t\u016bsh\u0101likh at the age of one hundred and sixty-five years.\u00a0 He\u00a0was twenty when Sh\u012bt died, on Tuesday, at the ninth hour of the day, on the 27th of the month of \u0100b, that is, of Misra (11).\u00a0 He lived in all nine hundred and twelve years.\u00a0 An\u016bsh, his son, embalmed the body with myrrh, incense and cinnamon and buried it in the Cave of the Treasures together with Adam, and he\u00a0mourned him for forty days.<\/p>\n

At the age of one hundred and eighty-seven M\u0101t\u016bsh\u0101likh had L\u0101mikh.\u00a0 M\u0101t\u016bsh\u0101likh lived in all nine hundred and sixty-nine years.\u00a0 When M\u0101t\u016bsh\u0101likh was fifty-three, An\u016bsh died on Saturday, at the setting of the sun, on the third of the month of T\u00ecshr\u012bn al-Awwal, or B\u0101bih (12).\u00a0 He had lived\u00a0in all\u00a0nine hundred and five years.\u00a0 His son Q\u012bn\u0101n embalmed his body with myrrh, incense and cinnamon, buried it in the Cave of the Treasures and mourned\u00a0him for forty days.<\/p>\n

6. At the age of one hundred and eighty-two L\u0101mikh had N\u016bh.\u00a0 L\u0101mikh lived in all seven hundred and seventy-seven years.\u00a0 L\u0101mikh was thirteen when God\u00a0selected Akhn\u016bkh and raised him to himself.\u00a0 The Arabs call\u00a0him Idr\u012bs (13).\u00a0 Akhn\u016bkh was three hundred and sixty-five years old when God raised him to himself.\u00a0 At that time the sons of Cain, the accursed, and the sons of Sh\u012bt who had come down among them worshiped whatever they\u00a0liked and that the soul desired and sought.\u00a0 Q\u012bn\u0101n died when L\u0101mikh was sixty-one, on Wednesday, at noon, on the 13th of Haz\u012br\u0101n, or B\u0101bih (14).\u00a0 His son Mahlali’\u012bl embalmed his body with myrrh, incense and cinnamon, buried it in the Cave of the Treasures and\u00a0mourned him\u00a0for forty days.\u00a0 Q\u012bn\u0101n had lived\u00a0in all\u00a0nine hundred and ten years.<\/p>\n

After\u00a0five hundred years, Noah had three children.\u00a0 He called the first S\u0101m, the second Y\u0101m and the third Y\u0101fit.\u00a0 He lived in all nine hundred and fifty years.\u00a0 Noah was thirty-four years old when Mahlali’\u012bl died, on Sunday, at the third hour of the day, on the 2nd of N\u012bs\u0101n, or Barm\u016bdah (15).\u00a0 His son Y\u0101rid embalmed his body with myrrh, incense and cinnamon, buried it in the Cave of the Treasures and mourned for forty days.\u00a0 Mahlali’\u012bl lived\u00a0in all\u00a0eight hundred and ninety-five years.<\/p>\n

Y\u0101rid died\u00a0when Noah was two hundred and six years old, on Fridays, at sunset, 13 of Adh\u0101r, or Baramh\u0101t (16).\u00a0 His son M\u0101t\u016bsh\u0101likh, L\u0101mikh and Noah embalmed his body and buried him in the Cave of the Treasures, mourning his death for forty days.\u00a0 Y\u0101rid lived in all nine hundred and sixty-two years.<\/p>\n

Noah was five hundred and ninety-five years old when his father L\u0101mikh died.\u00a0 Before he died, L\u0101mikh called his son Noah and\u00a0said to\u00a0him: “God – powerful and exalted – will not leave you [to live] on this mountain.\u00a0 When you go down, take the body of Adam with you and bring the three offerings with you, namely gold, myrrh and incense (17).\u00a0 Recommend also\u00a0to your son that, after\u00a0your death, he take with him the body of Adam, our father, and place him in the centre of the earth, placing at his service his son who shall spend his whole life there, in religion: he will not marry or shed blood; he will not offer either birds or beasts in sacrifice, but only bread and wine, because from that place will come the salvation of Adam.\u00a0 He will dress in the skins of animals, he will not cut his hair or\u00a0trim his nails.\u00a0 He will be alone, because he will be called a priest of God.\u00a0 You know well that I am referring to Malsh\u012bs\u0101d\u0101q”.<\/p>\n

When L\u0101mikh had finished recommending these things to his son Noah, he died on Sunday at sunset, 19 of Adh\u0101r, or Baramh\u0101t (18).\u00a0 Noah embalmed his body and buried it in the Cave of the Treasures and mourned\u00a0him for forty days.\u00a0 L\u0101mikh lived in all seven hundred and seventy-seven years.\u00a0 Noah was six hundred years old when M\u0101t\u016bsh\u0101lakh died on Friday, at noon, on the 21st of the month of Ayl\u016bl, or T\u016bt (19).\u00a0 Noah and S\u0101m embalmed the body and buried it in the Cave of the Treasures and mourned\u00a0him for forty days.\u00a0 Mat\u016bsh\u0101lakh lived in all nine hundred and sixty-nine years.\u00a0 On\u00a0the holy mountain\u00a0there only remained\u00a0Noah, his wife Haykal, daughter of N\u0101m\u016bsa, son of Akhn\u016bkh, and his three sons S\u0101m, H\u0101m and Y\u0101fit with their three wives, daughters of M\u0101t\u016bsh\u0101lakh.\u00a0 S\u0101m’s wife was called Salii, H\u0101m’s wife was called Nahlat, and Y\u0101fit’s wife was called Ar\u012bs\u012bnah (20).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing…. Part of the fun in this is trying to recognise the familiar biblical characters behind their unfamiliar Arabic names! 5. When Y\u0101rid felt near death, he called to him his son Akhn\u016bkh, and M\u0101t\u016bsh\u0101likh, son of Akhn\u016bkh, L\u0101mikh, son of M\u0101t\u016bsh\u0101likh and N\u016bh, son of L\u0101mikh, and\u00a0said to\u00a0them: “Do not let any of you […]<\/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":[672,673],"class_list":["post-18884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-eutychius","tag-eutychius-chapter-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18884","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=18884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}