by Brian Forbes on May 21, 2015
There is a unanimous ancient perspective that directly contradicts the theory of evolution.
It is being ignored by scholars in the modern day.
Many pagan gods were mortal men.
They were:
- born
- waged war
- conferred advantages
- had children
and died, whereupon they were deified by their descendants.
The theory of evolution is easily refuted by many powerful arguments and proofs.
The watchmaker argument is perhaps the oldest and most famous.
The Mt. St. Helen’s evidence, as a template for stratification and the carving of canyons, can be boiled down to a few sentences and photographs.
The kings of many European tribes can trace their genealogies back to Noah. [1]
Another evidence that is of this caliber, which has yet to be given its proper place in the origins debate, is that of the common ancestry of all men through the “gods” of pagan (especially Greek and Roman) mythology.
At first glance this concept, that many to most pagan gods were mortal men, seems highly speculative – a conspiracy theory on a government protest website.
It is not wild speculation.
On the contrary, this was a position taken by nearly all historians of antiquity.
The most skeptical, naturalistic authors were not ambiguous on this point, and there was very little deviation.
This is my opinion, but you don’t have to accept it because of me.
The opinion of an un-credentialed spectator means little in this scholarly, pompous world.
That is why I aim to bring you the opinion of these ancient authors in their own words.
The experts of antiquity will show that Darwinism does not match the traditions of Paganism, Judaism, or any other ancient perspective on the origin of mankind.
I’m going to work my way back through history from the modern day.
Understand that mine is just a sampling.
There are many more examples we can point to.
In the modern day, there are a few historians who are asserting that pagan gods were men, but they are largely being ignored.
They are not being refuted.
That would be something.
They are not being acknowledged.
Robert Bowie Johnson, Jr. wrote an article on creation.com in which he says,
“While the Chad Ape-man and other hoaxes of evolutionary ‘science’ have made it to the front pages of America’s newspapers, my books, Athena and Eden and Athena and Kain, have been ignored by the mainstream.” [2]
BLOODLINE: CAIN – Do YOU have the HOLY GHOST?
Dr. Ken Johnson of Biblefacts.org has also personally expressed his frustration to me at being ignored.
I have been ignored.
Why we are ignored will be left to be speculated on by others.
Suffice it to say that I haven’t ever seen a refutation of this evidence, whereas I have seen countless examples of corroboration.
Going back a little into modern history, we come upon a few books that agree that ancient mythology was corrupted history.
A good example of this is the Compendium of World History (pt 2. 1960). [3]
Compendium of World History Volume 1 No Such Thing As “Prehistory” of Man! | Ancient Patriarchs
In Chapter 1, the author agonizes that this “new interpretation” of history, namely the:
- Godless
- atheistic
- evolutionary
view is not being questioned in academia.
“What many do not realize is that the modern worldview of history without God is a radically new interpretation of human experience.
Almost no one today, it seems, has ever questioned whether this new interpretation is right.
It is merely assumed to be right.”
Yet it is not right, as you will see.
He says in chapter 16,
“Unfortunately, the archaeologist and the modern historian, discarding both Greek myth and historical fact, have created new and more fabulous myths.”
As we trace historical speculations through history, we find that this interpretation becomes even more prevalent.
The dates given for the following authors are rounded for simplicity.
On the cusp of the enlightenment, we find that great and learned men believed that the gods were once men.
Isaac Newton (~ 1700 AD) [4] connected the gods to biblical figures.
He said,
“In this tradition the Egyptians honour their father Osiris with the whole administration.
If you correct them in this point & make Ham, the Lord of all & conceive that Osyris took this journey southward to search his inheritance you will here have the division of the Countries of Ham amongst his children.
For Hercules is Chus, Osiris is Mizraim, Antæus is Phut & Busiris is Canaan as I find by other records compared with this.”
AP Editor:
Newton was incorrect about Hercules who was a son of Mizraim (Zeus) rather, not of Ham.
To him, not only were these gods merely deified men, but we can also connect them to names in Genesis.
Ancient Gods of the Old Testament
If someone wants to complain that Newton was a scientist and not a historian (which is an appeal to authority, thus not a valid argument), we can show that a contemporary of his,
Sir Isaac Newton (/ˈnjuːtən/; 4 January [O.S. 25 December] 1643 – 31 March [O.S. 20 March] 1727) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author. Newton was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating infinitesimal calculus, though he developed calculus years before Leibniz. He contributed to and refined the scientific method, and his work is considered the most influential in bringing forth modern science.
Richard Lynche (~ 1600 AD), [5] had no problem with this idea either.
“[Cham or Ham] was commanded by his father [Noe, or Noah] to depart, with his wife Noegla […] he established himself as king and Saturn of Egypt, where he erected and build a city called Chem-Myn: and among them also, he himself was called Pan […]“
Augustine of Hippo (/ɔːˈɡʌstɪn/ aw-GUST-in, US also /ˈɔːɡəstiːn/ AW-gə-steen; Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine and in the Eastern Orthodox Church as Blessed Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. His writings deeply influenced the development of Western philosophy and Western Christianity, and he is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers of the Latin Church in the Patristic Period. His many important works include The City of God, On Christian Doctrine, and Confessions.
The famous Augustine of Hippo (~ 400 AD) wrote,
“But was that Euhemerus also a poet, who declares both Jupiter himself, and his father Saturn, and Pluto and Neptune his brothers, to have been men, in terms so exceedingly plain that their worshippers ought all the more to render thanks to the poets, because their inventions have not been intended so much to disparage them as rather to dress them up?
Albeit Cicero mentions [… quote] If, indeed, I were to attempt to search into antiquity, […] it would be found that even those deities who are reckoned gods of the higher orders have gone from us into heaven.
Ask whose sepulchres are pointed out in Greece.”
Euhemerism Vindicated! “Mythical” Trojan Horse Found in “Mythical” Troy | Ancient Patriarchs
He spoke of Romulus in these words:
“By good will and repute we have raised to the immortal gods that Romulus who founded this city.
How should it be such a wonderful thing, therefore, to suppose that the more ancient men did with respect to Jupiter and Saturn and the others what the Romans have done with respect to Romulus, and what, in good truth, they have thought of doing even in these more recent times also in the case of Cæsar?” [6]
Miles Williams Mathis: ROME – Do YOU have the HOLY GHOST?
For those who don’t like the archaic language of this quote, let me simplify it.
There was an ancient author, Euhemerus by name, who said that the pagan gods of the higher order were simply men.
Their graves could be pointed out in Greece.
They started life as men and were deified and “dressed up” by those who survived them.
We see an example of this in Romulus and Cesar as was stated by Cicero.
Here is a passage from Acts to show that this was a pagan practice common enough to be captured in the pages of scripture.
And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.
And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.
And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms and gave up the ghost. Acts. 12:21-23 KJV
It is at this point that we reach what is commonly known as antiquity.
I believe that this period of time is demarcated as such because of the great divide in Europe between an organized belief in pagan gods and a national change to Christianity.
For this reason, all the sources I cite from this point on will have a special knowledge of Paganism – their beliefs, their practices, and their history.
Paganism was still common in their day.
Before you read any further, take a minute to recall what you know about this ancient religion.
Ask yourself why anyone would believe it.
They:
- built temples & sculptures
- wrote plays
- held games
- made sacrifices
etc. to those they said were gods.
They worshiped beings with birth stories and character flaws.
Why?
Some people use arbitrary standards for accepting or rejecting a source.
Among the modern-day humanists, there is an unreasonable hatred of anything spiritual.
Yet, the more moderate Romans paid religious historians to write their people’s history.
Miles Williams Mathis: ROME – Do YOU have the HOLY GHOST?
We shouldn’t ignore religious historians simply because they referenced books that referred to the Jewish God.
Pagan sources mentioned their pagan gods.
Rejection of all sources that have a religious tint leaves very few books from that era to study.
You can feel free to accept or reject any of my sources for any reason, rational or otherwise, but you will find upon deeper examination that every one of these authors applied a strict standard of skepticism to the accounts they wrote.
Just like many of us, they didn’t believe everything that they came across.
Every author I quote here was greatly honored in their time.
They were highly respected for their histories.
They were memorialized with quality statues and paintings.
Many people through time have found their writings to be trustworthy.
Eusebius of Caesarea (c. AD 260/265 – 30 May AD 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilius, was a Greek Syro-Palestinian historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian polemicist. In about AD 314 he became the bishop of Caesarea Maritima in the Roman province of Syria Palaestina.
Eusebius (~ 300 AD),[7] a Christian, was critical of the concept of an old humanity.
“In the second book [Berosus] lists the kings, one after another, and he says that the time of the ten kings, which we mentioned above, lasted for longer than 400,000 years.
Anyone who believes that these writers are telling the truth about such a huge number of years should believe all the other improbable stories that they tell.
Such a length of time is clearly supernatural, and is not worthy of belief, even if it is explained in a different way.”
Within the memory of those who wrote his source histories, there was an organized division of all of the land on the globe.
“After the Flood, the human race throughout the whole world was derived from three men.
Japheth was the ancestor of the inhabitants of Europe, from Mount Amanus to the western ocean.
Ham was [the ancestor of the inhabitants] of Egypt, Libya and all the regions to the west in that direction.
And Shem, who was the eldest brother, [was the ancestor] of the Assyrians, and all th
He was also in the habit of mixing real history with mythology.
“[Cephalion] adds: ‘…In a later generation, when Pannyas was king of the Assyrians, the expedition of the Argonauts sailed to the river Phasis, and to Medeia of Colchis.
They say that Heracles left the ship because of his love for Hylas and wandered amongst the Cappadocians.’”
I see a clear message from Eusebius.
Nations had relatively recent beginnings shortly after the land was split into three major divisions, and their first kings were deified as gods.
“This only shall be said, that they are written for the advantage and encouragement of youthful scholars; for all reckon it an honorable thing to imitate the gods.”
It was commonly believed that if a man was good enough, he could become a god too.
For Justin Martyr, their belief was so common that his claim didn’t require support.
In fact, his claim was the support.
Josephus (~ 70 AD) [9] was a Jew, and Jews are religious.
CIVILIZATION: WHO ARE THE MODERN JEWS? – Do YOU have the HOLY GHOST?
Josephus criticized those who rejected God and turned to paganism.
“[God] plunges such as do not walk in the paths of virtue into inevitable miseries. […] they followed fables, and by their discourses transferred the most reproachful of human vices unto the gods, and afforded wicked men the most plausible excuses for their crimes…”
Note that in the opinion of Josephus these gods were the projections of men; they were fables.
LOR NOTE:
Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith:
so do. 1Ti 1:4
But refuse profane and old wives’ fables and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. 1Ti 4:7
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 2Ti 4:4
Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. Tit 1:14
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 2Pe 1:16
Although it’s hard to find Josephus calling any historical figure a god, he does mention some names that are found among the other nations as gods.
“He [Nimrod, also known as Ninus, son of Belus] also said he would be revenged on God, if he should have a mind to drown the world again; for that he would build a tower too high for the waters to be able to reach!”
LOR NOTE:
- Biblical People: Nimrod (Bible Insights)
- 7 Facts You Didn’t Know about Nimrod in the Bible
- Nimrod, Mighty Hunter and King – Who Was He? – TheTorah.com
- Nimrod and Abraham – The Two Rivals – Chabad.org
- Who was Nimrod in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org
It was said, however, that the next judgment won’t be with water.
“Adam’s [prediction was] that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water…”
He takes what is clearly a superior history back to the very organization and division of nations.
“…each colony took possession of that land which they light upon, and unto which God led them; so that the whole continent was filled […] and some of those nations do still retain the denominations which were given them by their first founders…”
It is true for the nations local to Israel, but it is also true of nations further away.
“For Gomer founded those whom the Greeks now call Galatians, [Gauls,] but were then called Gomerites. [Lu: Welsh are Cumraeg] […] from Madai came the Madeans, who are called Medes […] Thiras also called those whom he ruled over Thirasians; but the Greeks changed the name into Thracians.”
With this small sample, you can get a flavor of how he enumerates many nations in:
- Europe
- Africa
- Asia
giving the name of the founder, the nation, and the corruption of the name by the Greeks.
Without good reason, many in the modern day have chosen to reject the scriptures as fables, yet the best connections between nations and their patriarchs can be found in the Jewish account.
- Semites were from Shem
- Assyrians were from Asshur
- Canaanites were from Canaan
- Moab and Ammon, sons of Lot, had nations associated with them
and Eber (Hebrews) and Aram (Aramaic language) all attest to the quality of the record.
Many historians through time have lauded the quality of the Jewish record. [10]
Jewish heroes weren’t deified.
Their historians took great care in being accurate and un-embellished.
The Romans trusted Josephus, and Josephus trusted Moses.
I see a clear message from Josephus.
The nations divided shortly after the languages did, and the nations had corresponding patriarchal kings for whom they were named.
Reproachful vices were transferred to them upon being deified as gods.
Pliny the Elder (~ 70 AD) [11] recounts:
“Berosus excelled in astrology; and on account of his divinations and predictions, a public statue was erected in his honour by the Athenians.”
Strabo (0 AD) [12], who wanted to be scientifically accurate, wrote,
“Most of the writers who discuss the same topics that Homer discusses, and also most of the various local traditions, can teach us that these matters are not fictions of poets nor yet of prose writers, but are traces of real persons and events.”
He also gives a reason for the changes.
“Now inasmuch as Homer referred his myths to the province of education, he was wont to pay considerable attention to the truth.
‘And he mingled therein’ a false element also, giving his sanction to the truth, but using the false to win the favor of the populace and to out-general the masses.
‘And as when some skillful man overlays gold upon silver,’ just so was Homer want to add a mythical element to actual occurrences, thus giving flavor and adornment to his style…”
Diodorus Siculus or Diodorus of Sicily (Ancient Greek: Διόδωρος, romanized: Diódōros; fl. 1st century BC) was an ancient Greek historian from Sicily. He is known for writing the monumental universal history Bibliotheca historica, in forty books, fifteen of which survive intact, between 60 and 30 BC. The history is arranged in three parts. The first covers mythic history up to the destruction of Troy, arranged geographically, describing regions around the world from Egypt, India and Arabia to Europe. The second covers the time from the Trojan War to the death of Alexander the Great. The third covers the period to about 60 BC. Bibliotheca, meaning ‘library’, acknowledges that he was drawing on the work of many other authors.
Diodorus Siculus (50 BC) [13] wrote,
“For some readers set up an unfair standard and require in the accounts of the ancient myths the same exactness as in the events of our own time, and using their own life as a standard they pass judgment on those deeds the magnitude of which throw them open to doubt, and estimate the might of Heracles by the weakness of the men of our day, with the result that the exceeding magnitude of his deeds makes the account of them incredible.
In the theaters, for instance, though we are persuaded there have existed no Centaurs who are composed of two different kinds of bodies nor any Geryones with three bodies, we yet look with favor upon such products of the myth as these, and by our applause we enhance the honor of the god.”
Thucydides (400 BC) made it a point to be accurate.
Thucydides (/θjuːˈsɪdɪˌdiːz/ thew-SID-ih-deez; Ancient Greek: Θουκυδίδης, romanized: Thoukudídēs [tʰuːkydǐdɛːs]; c. 460 – c. 400 BC) was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of “scientific history” by those who accept his claims to have applied strict standards of impartiality and evidence-gathering and analysis of cause and effect, without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work.
He said,
“He must not be misled by the exaggerated fancies of the poets, or by the tales of chroniclers who seek to please the ear rather than to speak the truth.
Their accounts cannot be tested by him; and most of the facts in the lapse of ages have passed into the region of romance.
At such a distance of time he must make up his mind to be satisfied with conclusions resting upon the clearest evidence which can be had.”
Then he made this claim.
“…under the leadership of a Corinthian, Phalius, son of Eratocleides, who was of the lineage of Heracles…”
He also reached back into the writings of Homer, the mythographer, for details on a historical event.
Homer (/ˈhoʊmər/; Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros; possibly born c. 8th century BCE) was an Ancient Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Despite doubts about his authorship, Homer is considered one of the most revered and influential authors in history.
“And we may fairly suppose the Trojan expedition to have been greater than any which preceded it, although according to Homer, if we may once more appeal to his testimony, not equal to those of our own day.”
He understands that Homer’s account isn’t entirely accurate.
“He was a poet, and may therefore be expected to exaggerate; yet, even upon his showing, the expedition was comparatively small.”
Virgil (~ 50 BC) [14] wrote:
“Our founder Dardanus, as fame has sung,
And Greeks acknowledge, from Electra sprung:
Electra from the loins of Atlas came;
Atlas, whose head sustains the starry frame.
Your sire is Mercury, whom long before
On cold Cyllene’s top fair Maia bore.
Maia the fair, on fame if we rely,
Was Atlas’ daughter, who sustains the sky.
Thus from one common source our streams divide;
Ours is the Trojan, yours th’ Areadian side.”
In short, the Areadians and the Trojans were both descended from Atlas.
AP Editor:
A slightly different, probably more correct version and names below, where Electra instead of marrying Zeus, marries his great great grandson Cambo blascon to produce Dardanus!
The top one is obviously a simplified version.
Also, Japhetus probably married Clymene and Asia both!
Note also that below, Atlas is even a grandson of Gomer son of Yaphetus! (Japheth]
Herodotus[a] (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, romanized: Hēródotos; c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the Histories, a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars among other subjects such as the rise of the Achaemenid Dynasty of Cyrus, and was the earliest known writer to apply the scientific method to historical events.[citation needed] He has been described as “The Father of History”, a title conferred on him by the ancient Roman orator Cicero, and the “Father of Lies” by others.
HERODOTUS (450 BC) [15] said,
“The Heraclides, descended from Hercules…”
and
“On the death of Lycurgus they built him a temple, and ever since they have worshipped him with the utmost reverence.”
He draws connections between the gods of Egypt and Greece.
“The Egyptians […] first brought into use the names of the twelve gods, which the Greeks adopted from them; and first erected altars, images, and temples to the gods […] the first man who ruled over Egypt was Min…”
– And to top it off,
“I made inquiry of the priests whether the story which the Greeks tell about Ilium is a fable, or no.”
Herodotus had to ask if one of the Greek myths was a fable, as if they weren’t all fables.
AP:
Next:
gods of the first, second , and third order or rank!
Interesting!
“Hercules is one of the gods of the second order, who are known as ‘the twelve’; and Bacchus belongs to the gods of the third order, whom the twelve produced. […] from Bacchus, who is the youngest of the three, they reckon fifteen thousand years to the reign of that king.
In these matters they say they cannot be mistaken, as they have always kept count of the years, and noted them in their registers.
But from the present day to the time of Bacchus […] is a period of not more than sixteen hundred years; to that of Hercules, son of Alcmena, is about nine hundred; while to the time of Pan, son of Penelope (Pan, according to the Greeks, was her child by Mercury), is a shorter space than to the Trojan war, eight hundred years or thereabouts.”
For more detailed calculations, see Eusebius’ corrections [16].
Notice that the Egyptians have
“always kept count”
of the years – since the beginning.
If you doubt this, look it up for yourself.
These ancient historians constantly refer back to the beginning of nations, and often to the beginning of the world.
Like Josephus, he also discusses the division of land in thirds.
“For my part I am astonished that men should ever have divided Libya [Africa], Asia, and Europe as they have, for they are exceedingly unequal. […]
As for Libya, we know it to be washed on all sides by the sea, except where it is attached to Asia.”
To the point, just a few sections later…
“For my part I cannot conceive why three names, and women’s names especially, should ever have been given to a tract which is in reality one […]
According to the Greeks in general, Libya was so called after a certain Libya, a native woman, and Asia after the wife of Prometheus.
The Lydians, however, put in a claim to the latter name, which, they declare, was not derived from Asia the wife of Prometheus, but from Asies, the son of Cotys, and grandson of Manes, who also gave name to the tribe Asias at Sardis.
Manes of Lydia in Greek Mythology – Greek Legends and Myths
As for Europe, no one can say whether it is surrounded by the sea or not, neither is it known whence the name of Europe was derived, nor who gave it name, unless we say that Europe was so called after the Tyrian Europe, and before her time was nameless, like the other divisions.”
Let’s be honest, how long could a land go nameless?
If nobody lived there, it could be a very long time, but how can man live for a hundred thousand years without naming a continent?
AP Editor:
Europe was largely covered with icepacks until 1500 BC and thus ’empty!’
I see a clear message from all these historians.
Miles Williams Mathis: A Study of History – Do YOU have the HOLY GHOST?
The mythologies were real stories, embellished in the retelling.
A skeptic might ask for more proof at this point, not being satisfied with what was given.
I say that even if I give dozens or hundreds of references, the skeptic won’t be satisfied.
Their problem is not with the evidence, but the implications.
I advise that he look honestly into this himself.
The examples are ample and obvious from most of history.
There are a few things that are abundantly clear in reading these histories.
These historians thought they had a general idea of when humanity started.
They had common stories about the birth of gods, yet they didn’t have a common language.
How long does it take for languages to diverge?
How long does it take for mythical accounts to diverge?
This is further complicated by the flood histories around the globe. [17]
We know how these nations started.
We know the citizens of these nations worshiped their founders as gods.
There’s another thing that is clear, and Isaac Newton uses two biblical proofs to demonstrate it.
The nations of Shinar and Elam were defeated by Abraham with an army of 318 men.
Egypt was so thinly peopled before Moses that Pharaoh said that the Israelites were more and mightier than they were.
CIVILIZATION: Ancient Mesopotamia was in the Americas – Do YOU have the HOLY GHOST?
As you just saw, Thucydides makes clear this same point about the Trojan expedition.
Euhemerism Vindicated! “Mythical” Trojan Horse Found in “Mythical” Troy | Ancient Patriarchs
Do you see the point here?
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, THE FIRST BOOK, chapter 24
ancientgreekbattles.net/Pages/43570_EpidamnusIncident.htm
Thucydides HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR – BOOK 1 – : Full text, in English – 12
There wasn’t much time; there weren’t many people.
History can’t go back 50-100 thousand years as would be expected with the Theory of Evolution.
These historians tell us plainly how it all started.
We don’t have to make up our own mythology.
If evolution can work with the details of these records, I have no clue how.
Yet those who want to accept evolution will find a way… or ignore it.
May we never be so deaf.
About the author:
Noting that education brings:
- money
- position
- honor
and not desiring any of them, Brian Forbes chose to skip a formal education in favor of independent learning.
Brian Forbes has no credentials whatsoever.
May the argument be won or lost on its merit, not on an appeal to authority fallacy!
This article was a summary of the facts found in his book, From Noah to Hercules, which can be viewed at:
Mankind’s origin – according to history
[1] After the Flood by Bill Cooper Internet Edition.
After the Flood, by Bill Cooper
[2] Athena and Eve by Robert Bowie Johnson, Jr.
[3] Compendium of World History by Hermon L Hoeh.
cgca.net/coglinks/wcglit/hoehcompendium/hhc1toc.htm
[4] Papers relating to chronology by Isaac Newton.
Papers relating to chronology and ‘Theologiæ Gentilis Origines Philosophicæ’ (Normalized)
[5] Travels of Noah into Europe by Richard Lynche.
The Travels of Noe into Europe
[6] Augustine, “The Harmony of the Gospels, Book 1.”
CHURCH FATHERS: Harmony of the Gospels, Book I, Chapter 23 (Augustine)
[7] All quotes from Eusebius were from his Chronicle.
Eusebius: Chronicle (4) – translation
[8] The First Apology of Justin Martyr.
Saint Justin Martyr: First Apology (Roberts-Donaldson)
[9] Antiquities of the Jews by Josephus.
sacred-texts.com/jud/josephus/ant-1.htm
[10] See Noah’s Three Sons by Arthur C. Custance.
noah’s three sons – Anna’s Archive
[11] The Natural History by Pliny the Elder.
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, BOOK I
[12] The Geography by Strabo.
LacusCurtius • Strabo’s Geography
[13] The Library of History by Diodorus Siculus.
LacusCurtius • Diodorus Siculus
[14] Virgil, “The Aeneid Book VIII.”
The Aeneid by Virgil: 8: The Embassage to Evander
[15] The history of Herodutus by Herodotus.
classics.mit.edu/Herodotus/history.mb.txt
[16] Eusebius said,
“Perhaps these so-called sars were originally measured not in years, but in some very small period of time.
For instance, the ancient Egyptians talked about lunar years…” and “It says that the ten generations lasted for 120 sars, which is the equivalent of 430,000 years.
The reader who is keen to know the truth can easily understand, from what we have already said, that Xisuthrus is the same as the man who is called Noah by the Hebrews, in whose time the great flood occurred.”
He said more, but it’s beyond the scope of our study.
Read it in context.
[17] Flood myths compiled by Mark Isaak.
Flood Stories from Around the World
Let it be noted that there are more things in common with these accounts than a flood.
There are practices such as honoring the dead and idolatry that also lend to the fact of recent common ancestry.
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Mankind’s origin – according to history