142.) Josephus attributes the invention of the constellations to the family of the antediluvian Seth, the son of Adam, while Origen affirms that it was asserted in the Book of Enoch that in the time of that patriarch the constellations were already divided and named. The Greeks associated the origin of astronomy with Atlas and Hercules, Atlantean kings or heroes. The Egyptians regarded Taut (At?) or Thoth, or At-hotes, as the originator of both astronomy and the alphabet; doubtless he represented a civilized people, by whom their country was originally colonized. Bailly and others assert that astronomy “must have been established when the summer solstice was in the first degree of Virgo, and that the solar and lunar zodiacs were of similar antiquity, which would be about four thousand years before, the Christian era. They suppose the originators to have lived in about the fortieth degree of north latitude, and to have been a highly-civilized people.” It will be remembered that the fortieth degree of north latitude passed through Atlantis. Plato knew (” Dialogues, Phaedo,” 108) that the earth “is a body in the centre of the heavens” held in equipoise. He speaks of it as a “round body,” a “globe;” he even understood that it revolved on its axis, and that these revolutions produced day and night. He says—”Dialogues, Timaeus”—”The earth circling around the pole (which is extended through the universe) be made to be the artificer of night and day.” All this Greek learning was probably drawn from the Egyptians.
Only among the Atlanteans in Europe and America do we find traditions preserved as to the origin of all the principal inventions which have raised man from a savage to a civilized condition. We can give in part the very names of the inventors.
Starting with the Chippeway legends, and following with the Bible and Phoenician records, we make a table like the appended:
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The Invention or Discovery.
The Race.
The Inventors.
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Fire
Atlantean
Phos, Phur, and Phlox.
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The bow and arrow
Chippeway
Manaboshu.
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The use of flint
”
”
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The use of copper
”
”
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The manufacture of bricks
Atlantean
Autochthon and Technites.
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Agriculture and hunting
”
Argos and Agrotes.
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Village life, and the
”
Amynos and Magos.
rearing of flocks
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The use of salt
”
Misor and Sydyk.
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The use of letters
”
Taautos, or Taut.
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Navigation
”
The Cabiri, or Corybantes.
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The art of music
Hebrew
Jubal.
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Metallurgy, and the use of
”
Tubal-cain.
iron
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The syrinx
Greek
Pan.
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The lyre
”
Hermes.
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We cannot consider all these evidences of the vast antiquity of the great inventions upon which our civilization mainly rests, including the art of writing, which, as I have shown, dates back far beyond the beginning of history;
