#pseudo berossus

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CECROPS Two-Natured, first king of the Athenians, began to reign in the 2408th year of the world, the 1554th before Christ was born. He founded Athens, according to Cassiodorus. Justin, book 2, also says this about him:

Before the time of Deucalion the Athenians had Cecrops as king, who, according to all the ancient stories, was said to have two forms, because he was the first to join male and female in marriage. Under his reign Athens was either resettled or founded.

See Augustine, City of God book 18 ch. 8, Berossus book 5, Eusebius in the preface to the Chronicle.

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DIONYSIUS [sic], son of Ammon, took up arms and drove Rhea and Camesenuus from the kingdom of his father, and kept their son Osiris for himself, adopting him as his son. He named him Ammon Jupiter, after his father, and Olympicus after his master Olympus, and he gave him the whole kingdom of Egypt in the 1948th year of the world and the 2014th year before the birth of Christ. After nine years, Barzanes the son of Sabatius was conquered in Armenia by Ninus. See Berossus book 5.

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JANUS, in the tenth year of the aforementioned Ninus, went from Africa to the Celtiberians, where he set up two colonies, named Noelas and Noeglas. And in the 19th year of Ninus, Janus went to Italy. When he had found that Camesenuus (who is Ham) was corrupting the youth more than expected, for three years he bore this level-headedly. Then, assigning him a few people from the colonies, he commanded him to leave Italy, and he commanded all the corrupted colonies of Gomer to tend the highlands across the broad river Janiculum. And he gave them his daughter Crana Helerna, that is, they elected her by suffrage and raised her to be queen with a white scepter. He gave the Janigenes their surname Razenua, and taught them physics and astronomy; he wrote down divinations and rituals, in the 1948th year of the world and the 2014th year before Christ was born. Therefore they followed his teaching, the same names and divine venerations as were used in Armenia-Saga. Berossus book 5.

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BELUS Jupiter, when his father Nimrod had ruled for 56 years, the son himself reigned, in the 1844th year of the world and the 2118th year before the birth of Christ. He built up the marked-out foundations of Babylon, more like a fortress than a city. He enjoyed constant peace around the borders of his empire. Consult Berossus book 5, as above.

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NIMROD Saturn, son of Cush, son of Ham, son of Noah, began to be strong on the earth. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar, in the 1788th year of the world and the 2174th year before Christ, namely that same year in which Reu was born. While he reigned a confusion of tongues was created in the building of the tower of Babel. Josephus’ Antiquities book 1, ch. 9 [sic; the quotation is actually in chapter 4] cites this saying of the Sibyl: "When all men existed with one voice, someone built a high tower, as if to ascend to the heavens by it: Truly the gods sent out winds, overthrew the tower, and individual and unique languages were distributed: therefore it came to pass that the city was called Babylon, which means “confusion”." See Genesis ch. 10 and 11 and Berossus books 4 and 5.

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DEUCALION, son of Prometheus (but not him who was mentioned above, according to calculations) began to reign among those who lived around Parnassus in the 2428th year of the world and the 1534th before Christ was born.

When he was eighty-two, he saw Thessaly flooded. He and his wife Pyrrha were carried by boat to Mount Parnassus, and were saved.

See Berossus book 5 on king Sparetus; Xenophon On Ambiguity; poets also tell stories about him. Also Archilochus On Chronology and Joannes Annius write that Deucalion was born in the 2nd year of Spherus, 15th king of the Assyrians, 70 years after the flood.

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TUISCO, who Moses called Ashkenaz, was the son of Gomer, the firstborn son of Japheth. He gave rise to the Sarmatians, who live next to Poland, and are now counted among the Germans; he taught them writing, and designed their laws. He gave the German Kingdom its beginning in the 1909th year of the world and the 2053rd year before the birth of Christ. He reigned for 150 years, died, and was taken up among the gods. From Gomer come the Cimbri, who, fleeing from Italy, dwelt in Dacia and the places in the North which we commonly call Denmark. See Berossus book 5.tu