minutes, 30 seconds, of our time. Now the Egyptian year was altered by the first Athothes, in or about A. M. 1958, at the latest; and from that period it is admitted, that the length of the several years in which their history is recorded, agrees with the Hindu year of 365 days, 15 hours, 31 minutes, 15 seconds. This alteration was at least six hundred years before the pentateuch of Moses could possibly have been written. Nevertheless, all Scripture prophecies are recorded in years of 360 days. The period for the reign of the six antediluvian princes, as given by Berosus, agreeing with those recorded in the Hebrew text of Scripture, the one corroborates the other. Alorus * TABLE XIX. died after years 917 Alaparus began his reign after 917 prophetic years were passed, reigned 30 died after years 947 Amillarus. 947 .1077 130 1077 The next Table is given from the Hebrew text of our Scripture, according to the year of the world. *The error in this date is easily accounted for. The flood is placed according to the true epoch, or 1656 years of 365 days, 6 hours, and a fraction: and the reigns of the princes calculated in Zapo at periods of 3600 days. Berosus, more correct, and counting in round numbers, places the death of Alorus after 94 Zapoi or A. M. 928: because it occurred in the second Nepos, or third year of the ninty-fifth Zapos, answering to A. M. 931: which being the first Nepos of the eleventh Zapoi, from the commencement of the cycle of 60 years, the reign of Alorus is stated at 10 Zapoi, or one hundred years of 360 days. Vide Tables XIV and XXII. TABLE XX. 1043 Adam Seth began his reign A. M. 931 reigned years 112 Enos.. died A. M. 931 86 To form a correct comparative table of the two races, we must reduce the number of years the former are said to have reigned, to Julian years, or more properly speaking to Hindu years. For the year that we term Julian, was introduced soon 1 after the flood, if not long antecedent to it. We find it in the most ancient works of the Hindus, the Vedas. And it was certainly introduced by Athothes into Egypt, during his reign, which commenced more than six hundred years before the pentateuch of Moses was written, and at least one thousand six hundred before this year was introduced by Cæsar. In the following table, to avoid fractions, I shall carry the excess of days to the succeeding reign; that is, as the reign of Alaparus was 30 prophetic years, equal to 29 years and 208 days, I state his reign at 29 years, carrying the excess of days to the reign of Amillarus; and so on, in the following comparative statement. |