{"id":18940,"date":"2019-01-31T23:14:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T23:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=18940"},"modified":"2019-01-31T23:14:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T23:14:33","slug":"the-annals-of-eutychius-of-alexandria-10th-c-ad-chapter-1-part-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2019\/01\/31\/the-annals-of-eutychius-of-alexandria-10th-c-ad-chapter-1-part-6\/","title":{"rendered":"The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) \u2013 chapter 1 (part 6)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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13. At that time people spoke only one language and one dialect.\u00a0 Some say that they spoke Syriac, others instead\u00a0that they spoke\u00a0Hebrew, and others\u00a0that they\u00a0spoke Greek. For me the latter are more reliable, because the Greek language is much more vigorous, richer and more varied than both Syriac and Hebrew (44). Seventy-two of them gathered together and said:\u00a0“Let us build a city and gird it with walls, and erect in it a tower that reaches up to heaven, because if one day there\u00a0is a flood we\u00a0will be protected”.\u00a0 For three years they\u00a0made\u00a0crude bricks and put them to bake.\u00a0 Each brick was thirteen cubits long, ten wide and five high.\u00a0 Then they built a city between S\u016br and B\u0101bil.\u00a0 The city was three hundred and thirteen b\u0101\u2018 long\u00a0(45) and it was a hundred and fifty-one b\u0101\u2018 wide.\u00a0 The height of the wall was five thousand five hundred and thirty-three b\u0101\u2018 and its thickness thirty-three b\u0101\u2018.\u00a0 The tower was ten thousand b\u0101\u2018 tall.\u00a0 They built it in forty years.\u00a0 While they were still intent on building, God sent them an angel (46) from heaven who confused their tongues and altered their language, so that when one spoke\u00a0to another he could not understand what he was saying.\u00a0 That place was called Babil because it was there that the languages \u200b\u200bbecame confused, and it was from there that they spread out across the land.\u00a0 Forty-six years had passed since the birth of F\u0101liq.<\/p>\n

Of those seventy-two men, twenty-five belonged to the Ban\u016b S\u0101m.\u00a0 They lived from the Euphrates and Mosul\u00a0as far as\u00a0the Far East, and from them came the Syrians, the inhabitants of Diy\u0101r Rab\u012b\u2018a and Mesopotamia, the Gar\u0101miqa, the Chaldeans,\u00a0i.e. the inhabitants of B\u0101bil, those of F\u0101ris,\u00a0of Khur\u0101s\u0101n,\u00a0of Fargh\u0101na, of\u00a0 Sind, of India, of the peninsula as-Sin, the Hebrews, the inhabitants of Yemen, of at-T\u0101\u2019if, of al-Yam\u0101ma, of Bahrayn and the different Arab lineages.\u00a0 They have eight forms of writing: Hebrew, Syriac, Persian, Indian, Chaldean, which is the Babylonian writing, Chinese, Himyarite and Arabic.\u00a0The S\u0101mites touched, out of the great watercourses, the Euphrates and the Balikh river.<\/p>\n

Of those [seventy-two men], thirty-two belonged to the Ban\u016b H\u0101m.\u00a0 They inhabited Syria – also called the land of Kan\u2018\u0101n because H\u0101m had a son named Kan\u2018\u0101n – up to the extreme West and there are derived from them the Canaanites, the Philistines, the Egyptians, the Copts, the Mans (47), the lineages of S\u016bd\u0101n, Abyssinia, Nubia, the Bug\u0101hs (48), the Zang, the Zutt, the inhabitants of Qarr\u0101n, the Samaritans, the Z\u0101big, the Maghrebins and the Berbers.\u00a0 They have twenty-six islands, including Sardinia (49), Malta and Crete, and a part of the island of Cyprus and others. They have six forms of writing:\u00a0Egyptian, Nubian, Ethiopian, farangis (50), Punic and qunquli (51).\u00a0 The H\u0101mites touched, \u00a0out of the great watercourses,\u00a0the Nile.<\/p>\n

Of those [seventy-two men], fifteen belonged to the Ban\u016b Y\u0101fit.[ref]i.e. Japeth, obviously.[\/ref]\u00a0 They lived from the Tigris to the far north and there are derived from them the Turks, the Ba\u011fn\u0101k, the Tugharghar, the Tubt, the inhabitants of Y\u0101\u011f\u016bg, of M\u0101\u011f\u016b\u011f, of Khazar, of L\u0101n, the An\u011f\u0101z, the San\u0101birah (52), the inhabitants of \u011earz\u0101n, the inhabitants of Great and Little Armenia, of Hawr\u0101n, of Antioch, of al-Kh\u0101lidiyyah, of Paphlagonia, of Cappadocia, of Kharshana, the Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Russians, the Daylamites, the Bulgarians, the Slavs, the Lombards, the Franks, the Galsat\u012bn and the Spaniards. They have twelve islands, including Rhodes, Sicily, Cyprus, Samos and others. They have six forms of writing:\u00a0Greek, Roman, Armenian, Spanish, Frankish and \u011furz\u0101ni. Of the great watercourses,\u00a0the Y\u0101fitites touched the Tigris.\u00a0 From the deluge to the construction of the tower and the confusion of languages five hundred and seventy-eight years had passed, and from Adam to the construction of the tower two thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.<\/p>\n

14. At one hundred and thirty F\u0101liq had R\u0101gh\u016b (53) and he was thirty when Q\u012bn\u0101n died in the month of Ab,\u00a0i.e. Misr\u00e0, at the age of four hundred and thirty years.\u00a0 F\u0101liq lived in all three hundred and thirty-nine years.\u00a0 At the age of one hundred and thirty two years R\u0101gh\u016b had Sh\u0101r\u016b\u2018 (54). In his day men worshiped idols and everyone worshiped and venerated what he liked (55). Some worshiped the sky, others worshiped the sun, others the moon, others the stars, others the birds, others the earth, others the beasts, others the rivers, others the trees and others the mountains (56).\u00a0 There were those who made themselves an idol in the likeness of their father, mother and those whom they loved more than others and filled with favours, and when one of them died, they adored him and made him a god (57). \u00a0Others made idols of gold, silver, stone, or wood.\u00a0 The inhabitants of Egypt, B\u0101hil, and Ifrangis and the inhabitants of the coasts began to do this.\u00a0 In another text they are said to be\u00a0only imitators.\u00a0 It is also said that the origin of the worship of idols goes back to the custom that\u00a0they had,\u00a0of placing on the tomb of a dead person an idol similar to him\u00a0so that they\u00a0did not forget his memory. So it was that the earth was filled with idols made in the image of men, women and children (58).\u00a0 At that time a rich man died, having a son who made an idol in the image of his father and placed\u00a0it on his grave, placing his servant as guardian.\u00a0 But the thieves came and stole everything the young man had at home.\u00a0 The young man rushed to his father’s grave and began to cry and moan\u00a0at that golden idol just as if he was complaining to his father. The devil spoke to him from the\u00a0belly of the idol and said to him:\u00a0“Do not cry. Instead, bring your youngest child here and offer him as a sacrifice. Then\u00a0bathe in his blood and I will give you back everything you had”.\u00a0 The young man left and returned with his son, slaughtered him in front of the idol and bathed in his blood. The demon then came out of the idol and entered the young man and taught him magic and incantations.\u00a0 It was\u00a0from that time\u00a0that men began to sacrifice their children to demons and to practice magic (59).<\/p>\n

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Continuing… 13. At that time people spoke only one language and one dialect.\u00a0 Some say that they spoke Syriac, others instead\u00a0that they spoke\u00a0Hebrew, and others\u00a0that they\u00a0spoke Greek. For me the latter are more reliable, because the Greek language is much more vigorous, richer and more varied than both Syriac and Hebrew (44). Seventy-two of them […]<\/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-18940","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\/18940","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=18940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}