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APPENDIX.
In Abul Feda's " Historia Anteislamitica," edited by Fleisher,
p. 16, it is stated, that Syria was one of the earliest inhabited
countries, and that the Syriac language was the first that was
spoken; that the Sabaean language was established by Seth and
Edris, Enoch ; that there was a town called Haran, to which
pilgrims resorted, as they did to the two large Pyramids of Gizeb,
one of which was said to be the tomb of Edris, and the other of
his son, Syabi; where they celebrated, as a festival, the day on
which the sun entered the sign of Aries. In the " Melelwa Nahil,"
MS. 47, in Nic. Cat., Hermes is represented as the pupil of Agatho-
daemon. In another account, MS. 785, Uri's Cat. Agathodajmon
is mentioned as a king of Egypt. The Sabaeans consider the
Great Pyramid of Gizeb as the Tomb of Seth ; the Second, that of
Hermes ; and the Third, that of Izabi; while the Copts state, that
the Great Pyramid is the Tomb of Surid ; the Second, that of
Herjeb, or Haukith, his brother; the Third, that of his son.-—
Dr. Sprenger.
In the Syrian chronicle of Bar Ilebrseus, (translated into Latin
by Professor Bruns), Enoch is said to have invented letters and
architecture, under the title of Trismigistus or of Hermes/' to have
built many cities and established laws, to have taught the worship
of God, and astronomy, to give alms and tithes, to offer up first-
fruits, libations, &c, to abstain from unlawful foods, and drunken-
ness, and to keep feasts at the rising of the sun, on new-moons,
and at the ascent of the planets. His pupil was Agathodamion,
(Seth); according to other accounts, Asclepiades, a king, renowned
for wisdom, who, when Enoch was translated, set up an image
in honour of him, and thereby introduced idolatry. The Egypt-
ians are supposed to have been descended from these jiersons.
According to Hadgi Walfah, they derived their knowledge from
the Chaldeans, who are said to have been the same as the Per-
sian magi, and to have originally come from Babylon. The
statues of the Grecian Hermes, which seem to agree in name with
the Pyramids (Haram), were not images, but symbols of the Deity,
8 With respect to the idle fables that the Pyramids were antediluvian, and built
by Hermes, &c, it is scarcely worth while to observe, that the stones, of which they
are constructed contain fossils.
APPENDIX.
In Abul Feda's " Historia Anteislamitica," edited by Fleisher,
p. 16, it is stated, that Syria was one of the earliest inhabited
countries, and that the Syriac language was the first that was
spoken; that the Sabaean language was established by Seth and
Edris, Enoch ; that there was a town called Haran, to which
pilgrims resorted, as they did to the two large Pyramids of Gizeb,
one of which was said to be the tomb of Edris, and the other of
his son, Syabi; where they celebrated, as a festival, the day on
which the sun entered the sign of Aries. In the " Melelwa Nahil,"
MS. 47, in Nic. Cat., Hermes is represented as the pupil of Agatho-
daemon. In another account, MS. 785, Uri's Cat. Agathodajmon
is mentioned as a king of Egypt. The Sabaeans consider the
Great Pyramid of Gizeb as the Tomb of Seth ; the Second, that of
Hermes ; and the Third, that of Izabi; while the Copts state, that
the Great Pyramid is the Tomb of Surid ; the Second, that of
Herjeb, or Haukith, his brother; the Third, that of his son.-—
Dr. Sprenger.
In the Syrian chronicle of Bar Ilebrseus, (translated into Latin
by Professor Bruns), Enoch is said to have invented letters and
architecture, under the title of Trismigistus or of Hermes/' to have
built many cities and established laws, to have taught the worship
of God, and astronomy, to give alms and tithes, to offer up first-
fruits, libations, &c, to abstain from unlawful foods, and drunken-
ness, and to keep feasts at the rising of the sun, on new-moons,
and at the ascent of the planets. His pupil was Agathodamion,
(Seth); according to other accounts, Asclepiades, a king, renowned
for wisdom, who, when Enoch was translated, set up an image
in honour of him, and thereby introduced idolatry. The Egypt-
ians are supposed to have been descended from these jiersons.
According to Hadgi Walfah, they derived their knowledge from
the Chaldeans, who are said to have been the same as the Per-
sian magi, and to have originally come from Babylon. The
statues of the Grecian Hermes, which seem to agree in name with
the Pyramids (Haram), were not images, but symbols of the Deity,
8 With respect to the idle fables that the Pyramids were antediluvian, and built
by Hermes, &c, it is scarcely worth while to observe, that the stones, of which they
are constructed contain fossils.