{"id":18924,"date":"2019-01-28T19:03:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T19:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=18924"},"modified":"2019-01-28T19:03:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T19:03:33","slug":"the-annals-of-eutychius-of-alexandria-10th-c-ad-chapter-1-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2019\/01\/28\/the-annals-of-eutychius-of-alexandria-10th-c-ad-chapter-1-part-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) \u2013 chapter 1 (part 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing with Eutychius’ rewrite of Genesis and the Cave of Treasures.<\/em><\/p>\n

9. When they went out [from the ark] they built a city and called it Thaman\u012bn (29), from their number, which means “We are eight”.\u00a0 God – powerful and exalted – then said to Noah: “There will not be another flood in future”.\u00a0 God then made a\u00a0covenant with Noah, which is the rainbow that appears in the clouds, telling him: “When you see this rainbow, it will be the sign of the covenant”.\u00a0 Then the sons of Noah planted a vineyard and, having squeezed a new beverage, they gave it to Noah, their father, who drank and got drunk.\u00a0 While he was asleep, his genitals were exposed.\u00a0 S\u0101m and Y\u0101fit then took a cloth and placed it over him\u00a0and walked backwards so as not to see their father’s genitals. That was how they covered their father’s genitals.\u00a0 When Noah awakened from sleep, his wife informed him of what had happened.\u00a0 He was angry with his son H\u0101m and cursed him saying: “Cursed be H\u0101m and may he be a servant of his brothers” (30).\u00a0 Later H\u0101m adopted all the instruments of entertainment and was also cursed for that.\u00a0 He became a servant of his brothers, he and his descendants,\u00a0i.e. the Copts, those of the S\u016bd\u0101n, of Abyssinia and of Nubia, also called Berbers.<\/p>\n

10. Two years after the flood, S\u0101m had Arfakhsh\u0101d at the age of one hundred and two years.\u00a0 Noah lived, after the flood, three hundred and fifty years.\u00a0 Feeling close to death, he spoke secretly to his son S\u0101m telling him: “Take the body of Adam out of the ark without anyone seeing you and take bread and wine with you to help you along the way.\u00a0 Take Malsh\u012bs\u0101d\u0101q, son of F\u0101liq, with you and go and lay it down where the angel of God shows you.\u00a0 Then order Malsh\u012bs\u0101d\u0101q to stay in that place without taking a wife and to live there religiously for the rest of his life, because God has chosen him\u00a0to be\u00a0a servant in his presence.\u00a0\u00a0He will not build a house or\u00a0shed the\u00a0blood\u00a0of wild beasts or birds or any other animal there. He will not offer any other sacrifice to God other than bread and wine.\u00a0 He will dress\u00a0in animal skins, he will not shave his hair or\u00a0trim his nails, and he will remain alone, because he is the priest of God Most High.\u00a0 The angel of God will precede you until you have come to the place\u00a0to bury the body of Adam.\u00a0 Know that this place is the centre of the earth”.\u00a0 After giving these instructions to S\u0101m, Noah died on Wednesday, at two in the morning, on the 2nd of Ayy\u0101r,\u00a0i.e. Bashans (31).\u00a0 Noah had lived in all nine hundred and fifty years, and died when S\u0101m\u00a0was four hundred and fifty.\u00a0 His sons S\u0101m, H\u0101m and Y\u0101fit embalmed the body, buried it and mourned\u00a0him for forty days.\u00a0 S\u0101m lived in all six hundred years, one hundred before the flood and five hundred after the flood.<\/p>\n

11. At the age of one hundred and thirty-five years Arfakhsh\u0101d had Q\u012bn\u0101n (32). Arfakhsh\u0101d lived in all four hundred and sixty-five years.\u00a0 At one hundred and thirty years Q\u012bn\u0101n had Sh\u0101lakh. Q\u012bn\u0101n lived\u00a0in all\u00a0four hundred and thirty years.\u00a0 At one hundred and thirty years Sh\u0101lakh had \u2018Abir. Sh\u0101lakh lived in all four hundred and sixty years.(33).\u00a0 \u2018Abir is the father of the Jews and the Arabs call him H\u016bd (34).\u00a0 At one hundred and thirty-four years \u2018Abir had F\u0101liq (35) who was called this way because in his time the earth was divided (36).\u00a0 After F\u0101liq, \u2018Abir had Qaht\u0101n (37) who is the father of the Arabs.\u00a0 In his day people used to paint the images of every person renowned for his courage or his beauty or for his wisdom and for his illustrious fame and\u00a0worship them.\u00a0 The cause of their cult of images dates back to the fact that before the death of a man of great prudence or\u00a0wisdom or courage, they\u00a0set up\u00a0the image in the halls where they used to gather.\u00a0 When an affliction hit them and they sought relief, they would gather before that image and consult with it, as if the same image were to take part with them in their search\u00a0for wisdom; they took the utmost care not to exclude, in this difficulty, the memory of any of those who had preceded them.\u00a0 And so, continuing in their custom, they ended up worshiping images.\u00a0 From the deluge to the birth of F\u0101liq five hundred and thirty-one years had passed away, and from Adam to the birth of F\u0101liq two thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven years.<\/p>\n

12. From F\u0101liq was born Malsh\u012bs\u0101d\u0101q, the priest (38). As for S\u0101m, he did what his father Noah had\u00a0advised him.\u00a0 He entered the ark at night and took Adam’s body away without anyone noticing.\u00a0 He then called his brothers and told them: “My father advised me, when he was dying, to walk the earth until reaching the sea and see how the earth is, its rivers and its valleys, then return to you.\u00a0 I entrust to you my wife and my children: watch over them until I return.” S\u0101m then said to F\u0101liq: “Give me your son Malsh\u012bs\u0101d\u0101q, so that he may help me along the way”. S\u0101m then took the body of Adam and Malsh\u012bs\u0101d\u0101q with him, went out and met the angel of God, who walked before them until he brought them to the centre of the earth and showed them the place.\u00a0 When they had\u00a0set down\u00a0the body of Adam, the place opened.\u00a0 S\u0101m and Malsh\u012bs\u0101d\u0101q deposited the body of Adam in the place that had opened to them and it closed.\u00a0 That place is called al-Gulgula, or al-Iqr\u0101niy\u016bn (39). Then S\u0101m\u00a0instructed Malsh\u012bs\u0101d\u0101q [to do] all that Noah had advised him and told him: “Stay here and be a priest of God, because God has chosen you to serve in his presence. This is the angel of God, who will come to you at all times”. Then S\u0101m returned to his brothers and F\u0101liq\u00a0said to\u00a0him: “Where is young Malsh\u012bs\u0101d\u0101q?” S\u0101m replied: “He died on the way and I buried him”. And they felt great pain for him.\u00a0 \u2018\u0100bir was seventy years old when Arfakhsh\u0101d died in the month of N\u012bs\u0101n, i.e. Barm\u016bdah (40): he had lived all four hundred and sixty-five years.\u00a0 In the one hundred and third year of the life of \u2018Abir, there died S\u0101m, son of Noah, on the Friday of the month of Ayl\u016bl,\u00a0i.e. T\u016bt (41): he had\u00a0lived for\u00a0six hundred years (42).\u00a0 \u2018\u00c0bir lived in all four hundred and sixty-four years.(43)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing with Eutychius’ rewrite of Genesis and the Cave of Treasures. 9. When they went out [from the ark] they built a city and called it Thaman\u012bn (29), from their number, which means “We are eight”.\u00a0 God – powerful and exalted – then said to Noah: “There will not be another flood in future”.\u00a0 God […]<\/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-18924","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\/18924","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=18924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}