Re: Annedoti, Anon (Re: A China-Sumer connection)

From: josephus (dogbird_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 03/03/05 

Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:29:37 GMT

Comm wrote:

> "Jacques Guy" <jguy@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
> news:422673DC.564B@alphalink.com.au...
>
>>Brian M. Scott wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:43:50 +1000, Jacques Guy
>>><jguy@alphalink.com.au> wrote in
>>><news:42264FB6.6107@alphalink.com.au> in
>>>sci.archaeology,sci.lang,sci.anthropology:
>>
>>
>>I was curious as to the origin of those bogus Greek
>>words. Bogus because not only "Musarus" cannot be
>>Greek, but it is given as meaning "abomination",
>>and "Annedoti" as "the repulsive ones".
>
>
> That is exactly what those words mean - abomination and repulsive - what was
> said of the appearance. They are not bogus Greek words at all.
>
> PKM found it for you. Not on a fiction site, either.
>
> Here, I'll copy paste:
>
> QUOTE
> Why don't you guys just search on the internet:
>
> http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/af/af03.htm

But this link and the next page are about creation archeology. The Tower
of Babble and evidence for the flood. BEROSSUS is their source, not a
scholarly effort as far as I can see.

>
> BEROSSUS:
> FROM APOLLODORUS.
>
> OF THE CHALDÆAN KINGS.
>
> THIS is the history which Berossus has transmitted to us. He tells
> us that the first king was Alorus of Babylon, a Chaldæan: he reigned
> ten sari: and afterwards Alaparus, and Amelon who came from
> Pantibiblon: then Ammenon the Chaldæan, in whose time appeared the
> Musarus Oannes the Annedotus from the Erythræan sea. (But Alexander
> Polyhistor anticipating the event, has said that he appeared in the
> first year; but Apollodorus says that it was after forty sari;
> Abydenus, however, makes the second Annedotus appear after twenty-six
> sari.) Then succeeded Megalarus from the city of Pantibiblon; and he
> reigned eighteen sari: and after him Daonus the shepherd from
> Pantibiblon reigned ten sari; in his time (he says) appeared again from
> the Erythræan sea a fourth Annedotus, having the same form with those
> above, the shape of a fish blended with that of a man. Then reigned
> Euedorachus from Pantibiblon, for the term of eighteen sari; in his
> days there appeared another personage from the Erythræan sea like the
> former, having the same complicated form between a fish and a man,
> whose name was Odacon. (All these, says Apollodorus, related
> particularly and circumstantially whatever Oannes had informed them of:
> concerning these Abydenus has made no mention.) Then reigned
> Amempsinus, a Chaldæan from Laranchæ: and he being the eighth in
> order reigned ten sari. Then reigned Otiartes, a Chaldæan, from
> Laranchæ; and he reigned eight sari. And upon the death of Otiartes,
> his son Xisuthrus reigned eighteen sari: in his time happened the great
> deluge. So that the sum of all the kings is ten; and the term which
> they collectively reigned an hundred and twenty sari.-Syncel. Chron.
> 39.-Euseb. Chron. 5.
>
> ---
> Regards,
> Paul Kekai Manansala
> http://sambali.blogspot.com/
>
> UNQUOTE.
>
>

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