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( Plausable alternative theory. The TWIN PILLARS ,
in Masons lore, Joachim and Boaz. S. )
.....
WARNING OF DELUGE IN TIME TO MAKE RECORDS
DATA
In addition to the data given in "The Deluged Civilization", we have the following traditions:
Mantho.: "It remains therefore to make certain extracts concerning the dynasties of the Egyptians from the writings of Manetho the Sebennyte, the high priest of the idolatrous temples of Egypt in the time of Ptolemy Philadelphus. These, according to his own account, he copied from the inscriptions which were engraved in the sacred dialect and hierographic characters upon the columns set up in the Seriadic Land by Thoth, the first Hermes; and after the Flood were translated from the sacred dialect into the Greek tongue in hieroglyphic characters, and committed in writing in books and deposited by Agathodaemon the son of the second Hermes, the father of Taut, in the hidden chambers of the temples of Egypt" (from Syncellus, Chron. 40) .
Sanchuniathon.: "And Usous . . . was the first man who dared to venture on the sea. And he consecrated two stelae or pillars to Fire and Wind" (Ur and Al, hence pillars of Khur-Khal, or Hercules)
( Enki & enlil again ? S. )
. . . "These things the Cabiri, the seven sons of Sydyk and their eighth brother Esmun first of all set down in memoirs as the god Taautus commanded them." (From Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica, Book 1, Chapter 6.) I do not know if it has been pointed out that Taautus of Egyptian and Phoenician mythology is the same as Taaus of the Babylonian mythology. The name means "The One Who Does Things for the Spirits".
He is also the Theos of the Thracians.
He was the private secretary and executive of the Gods.
Ammianus Marcellinus.: "There are certain underground galleries and passages full of windings which it is said that the adepts in the ancient rites (knowing that the Flood was coming and fearing that the memory of the sacred ceremonies would be obliterated) constructed in various places and distributed beneath the temples; which were mined with great labor. And, smoothing the walls, they engraved on them numerous kinds of birds and animals and countless varieties of creatures of another world, which they called hieroglyphics."
Josephus.: "The sons of Seth, being naturally of a good disposition, lived happily in the land without apostatizing and free from any evils whatsoever and they studiously turned their attention to the knowledge of the heavenly bodies and their configurations. And lest their science should at any time be lost among men, inasmuch as Adam had acquainted them that a universal aphanism or destruction of all things would take place alternately by the force of fire and the overwhelming powers of water,
they erected two columns, the one of brick and the other of stone, and engraved upon each of them their discoveries; so that in case the brick pillar should be destroyed by the waters the stone one might survive to teach men the things engraved upon it, and at the same time inform them that a brick one had formerly been also erected by them. It remains even to the present day in the land of the Siriad." (Antiquities, Book 1, Chapter 2.)
POINTS IN REGARD TO WHICH TRADITIONS ARE AGREED
The traditions handed down by the Egyptian priest Manetho, the Phoenician historian Sanchuniathon, and the Jewish historian Josephus are in better agreement than most tradition groups and are consistent that:
1. The records made before the Flood were on pillars.
2. They were written in hieroglyphics.
3. The pillars were in the Seriadic country.
4. They were made by the sons of Sydyk or Seth (the Cabiri).
5. That either after or before the Deluge copies were made in hieroglyphics on the walls of, or in books deposited in, extensive systems of underground chambers.
These traditions will be found translated in Cory's "Ancient Fragments" or in Mead's "Thrice Greatest Hermes".
WARNING OF DELUGE IN TIME TO MAKE RECORDS
As pointed out in "The Deluged Civilization", there was ample warning of the Deluge. For example, Noah of the Pentateuch and Atra-Hasis of the Babylonian tradition had time to build the immense Ark and the Telchines had tie to colonize Cos. So there would have been time to erect the monuments.
From the history of Berossus, quoted by Syncellus and Eusebius, it is clear that seals began to appear in increasing numbers as the Deluge drew near; which may be significant as indicating a breaking through of the Arctic Ocean into the Asiatic Mediterranean on the east of the Caucasus. The connection between the Arctic and the Asiatic Mediterranean is shown on Strabo's map but had probably ceased to exist by his time. The Caspian, Aral and Balkasch Seas are all that are now left of the Asiatic Mediterranean.
There is one interesting point about the Noah or Atra-Hasis traditions. In one tradition he left the Ark with his wife and the pilot and disappeared. The others thought he had been taken to heaven and make no further reference to him in their tradition. But in another tradition Gilgamesh goes to see him at his old home, to learn the story of the Deluge. It rather appears as if he and his wife and the pilot had gone back home immediately they got on dry ground. In the Pentateuch one of the versions states that Noah walked with God, an expression used also of Enoch; so there is some indication that some of the survivors of the Deluge did not know what had become of the others, because they separated as soon as dry land appeared.
LOCATION OF THE SERIADIC LAND
The monuments were not in Egypt for two reasons; Seirios until a comparatively late date always meant the sun itself and not the star; if Josephus had meant Egypt he would have said so. I have also a Phoenician reference which shows that Siriadic land cannot mean Egypt.
The word Siriadic might mean one of three things, in view of the form "-iadic":
1. The country of the sun (Seirios).
2. The country of the lasso users (seira).
3. The country of the Seres.
These are all the same land, that is the North Caucasus Isthmus, Asiatic Sarmatia. For it was the land of Ur or Apollo where, according to a fragment of the Phaethon of Euripides, he stabled his horses. The Seira was, according to Liddell and Scott, Greek Dictionary, "a line with a noose used by the ancient Sagartians and Samartians to entangle their enemies.
( This is mentioned in several myths of the regions history. Hints of a people of Metaphysical skills. S ) Herod. 7.85 and Paus. 1.21.8".
And the Seres lived there, according to Strabo 11.5.8 and Muller's Ptolemy, page 905. The latter states that their kingdom was near the mouth of the Hypanis (now Kuban), but from other writers it extended across the whole isthmus and this agrees with the fact that they were the first to establish caravan routes from there to Babylon. See Strabo, ibid.
MEANING OF SYDYK
That the steles were built by the sons of Sydyk is significant because sydyk means "pointing up to the sky" and was the name given to an ithyphallic monument. The root is found in this meaning in the Greek word "sideunes".
LOCATION OF THE SYDYKS
Stieler's Hand Atlas of 1905, Plate 49, P. 19, shows right in the center of the eyot where the long mounds define the position of the city of Ur or Apollo, a village called Pssydache (Sydach). I believe this to be the position of one of the steles.
PSSYDACHE THE BRICK OR THE STONE STELE
This was probably the brick stele. The city of Ur, that is Urach, was the Erech of the Gilgamesh epic of the Babylonian inscriptions. The name survives in Terek. "Sevenfold Erech of the wide plazas" was sevenfold Tartarus of the wide ring-shaped plazas with their race tracks, etc., between the encircling canals. Erech, we are told, had brick walls, which would be natural on account of the convenient clay and bitumen. So it is rather more than probable that the stele of Pssidache was built of brick; and for other reasons (Erythria, etc.) it was probably red brick.
The stone stele would be built where stone was convenient and to the south, for the north was the plain which was to be inundated and there was no convenient stone or good foundation. Going south, about thirty miles we come to the pass of Arabus or Erebus, and the stone stele might have been placed there.
But at the further end of the pass where it debouches into the Alizon valley, which we know was the other home of the Cabiri, is a town called Achmuti or Eshmuti. As Eshmun or Achmun was the eighth Cabiri we might reasonably look for the stele in this neighborhood.
About ten miles down the Alizon valley is another place called Semochada Scheni, which means "Sun City of the Scheni." (The Phoeni or Phoenicians, the Fenku of the Egyptian Book of the Dead.)
ITINERARY OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
The Egyptian Book of the Dead gives the itinerary of the dead exactly as Homer gives it (see Chapter 125 et seq.). But the transportation is in the hands of the Phoeni. A ritual (burying a lamp with a glass chimney and digging it up again) is gone through at the "city north of the olive tree", that is, Phanagoria (for olive yards of Phanagoria see Smith, Classical Dictionary) at the mouth of the Kuban. The shade sees Tartarus at a distance, goes through the pass of Erebus, and comes out into the Alizon valley at Tioneti (To-neter, the "Holy Land"). About ten miles down the shade comes to Eshmuti (Eshmun city); a little further down, to the "City of the Sun of the Phoeni" (or possibly of the Overseers, Shemochada-Scheni). Still further down the valley is "Sekhet-Eli", the fields of the sun or Osirus (Sakately) . And finally to the mountain of Bakhu, the "Mountain of Sunrise", projecting easterly into the Caspian Sea (now Baku), and the Sek-het-sasi or "flaming fields" common to the Egyptian, Greek and Parsee mythologies.
THE RIDDLE OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
To-neter (the "land of the Aet-Ur) was south of the Caucasus, on the other side of Erebus from the Siriadic Land, i.e. Asiatic Sarmatia. When one remembers the great olive yards of Phanagoria and the mineral oil of the Baku district, the riddle of the 125th Chapter of the Book of the Dead ("What is thy name?" "I am he who is assembled under the flowers and who dwelleth in the olive-tree") is easily answered. It is oil, mineral and vegetable, i.e. Fire, Hermes.
The Book of the Dead, chapters 147 and 149 is a most valuable guide book to the Caucasus region, as it gives the names of the tribes, places, etc. in considerable detail. In Chapter 147 the doorkeepers of the seven Arits or earths or countries are mentioned by title and are not the names of individuals, of which a place name sometimes forms a part. But the Watchers are in all cases the different tribes or nations, beginning with the Cimmerians, the Seres, etc. And the Heralds are the marks or boundaries which indicate to the shade when he is passing from one nation's territory into that of another. The route above the head of Oceanus seems to have been more southerly than that of Homer, for we find "Teb-hra-ha-Keft" (Tiber or Keft) given as one of the Heralds.
It will be noted that the entrance was between pylons (the Bo-az pillars). In Chapter 149 the fourteen aats are different regions beyond Erebus. The first is Asmuti, then Hercules (now Melikarth), etc.
Most of the identifications are direct, the names being unchanged. For example, "the two sycamore trees of turquoise, from between which the God Ra doth emerge when he setteth out upon his journey over the Pillars of Shu towards the door of the lord of the East, wherefrom Ra cometh forth" is unmistakably the gap at Shu-mash of Mar-ash.
But one would not immediately identify Sekhet-Aaru, literally "The Field of Reeds", the name of the land of paradise or heaven, with Sakat-ali unless one knew that El was the other name of Shem, the sun-god; and that Ta Shema meant "reed land" in Egyptian; and so Sekhet-Aaru was merely the name used to the uninitiated for the hidden or secret name, Sekhet-Shem or Sekhet-Eli.
Another instance of this is the use of the name "Heru-khuti", i.e. Hercules, for the Phoenician title (Melikarth) of Hercules.
EXACT LOCATION DETERMINED BY OVERLAPPING OF TRADITIONS
We have seen how the Greek, Phoenician and Egyptian traditions overlap, starting from the entrance to the sea of Azov and extending through the pass of Dariel, as far east as Baku and the "Flaming Fields" at the extremity of the peninsula of Apsuron.
Analogously the Babylonian traditions start at the eastern extremity of the peninsula of Apsuron at Shamasha and Marash and extend west, past Sabuje and Napare-uli or Sapare-uli, through the pass of Dariel to Terek (Tartarus) on the north, Tamischiera on the west, and Bit-Jakin on the east. Overlapping, therefore, the other three traditions, Greek, Phoenician and Egyptian.
This overlapping enables us to determine quite exactly the location of the chambers where the records were stored after transcription and translation from the steles.
For Berossus' record of the Deluge, which he took from the cuniform records in the temples at Babylon, states that Cronus bade Atra-Hasis "setting down in writing the beginning, middle and end of all things, to bury them in Sippara, the City of the Sun; to build a boat and go aboard it with his family" and that "after the Flood some of those saved went to Babylonia, dug up the writings from Sippara, founded many cities, built temples, and so repopulated Babylonia".
The original Babylonia (Bab-al-on, "Gate to the Land of the Sun", Havilah, Pshaveli) was, we know from other evidence (see "The Deluged Civilization" pp. 49, 50, 75, 76) substantially the same as the land of Dilmun, i.e. the-Alizon valley where are now the Plain of Adschinour, Chaldan, Lagodeschi, etc.
And Napare-Uli of the Stieler Atlas (Papare-Uli of the Times Atlas) is Sippara-Eli, i.e. "Sippara of the Sun". It was there that the records were stored . And we may be sure that, even if the records were removed for consultation, they were replaced because there would be no better way of keeping them.
THE RECORD STELES NOT THE PILLARS OF HERCULES
The brick and stone steles were not, we may be fairly sure, the Pillars of Hercules. The Pillars of Hercules were erected to Ur the Fire God and to Al the Storm God. These two gods were amalgamated into one twin god, possibly from some incident as that described in the life of Elijah (1 Kings, 18), the god of fire. Fires were kept burning on top of the twin pillars. Later these fires were shielded by glass, so that one gave a green, the other a yellow, light. Herodotus describes those at Tyre as "Two pillars, one of pure gold, the other of emerald, shining with great brilliancy at night." The pillars were called Jakin and Boaz. See 1 Kings, 7;15.
LOCATION OF THE PILLARS OF HERCULES
Theres much more
Its a fascinating read:
http://www.radiocom.net/Deluge/Deluge7-10.htm
..
( Plausable alternative theory. The TWIN PILLARS ,
in Masons lore, Joachim and Boaz. S. )
.....
WARNING OF DELUGE IN TIME TO MAKE RECORDS
DATA
In addition to the data given in "The Deluged Civilization", we have the following traditions:
Mantho.: "It remains therefore to make certain extracts concerning the dynasties of the Egyptians from the writings of Manetho the Sebennyte, the high priest of the idolatrous temples of Egypt in the time of Ptolemy Philadelphus. These, according to his own account, he copied from the inscriptions which were engraved in the sacred dialect and hierographic characters upon the columns set up in the Seriadic Land by Thoth, the first Hermes; and after the Flood were translated from the sacred dialect into the Greek tongue in hieroglyphic characters, and committed in writing in books and deposited by Agathodaemon the son of the second Hermes, the father of Taut, in the hidden chambers of the temples of Egypt" (from Syncellus, Chron. 40) .
Sanchuniathon.: "And Usous . . . was the first man who dared to venture on the sea. And he consecrated two stelae or pillars to Fire and Wind" (Ur and Al, hence pillars of Khur-Khal, or Hercules)
( Enki & enlil again ? S. )
. . . "These things the Cabiri, the seven sons of Sydyk and their eighth brother Esmun first of all set down in memoirs as the god Taautus commanded them." (From Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica, Book 1, Chapter 6.) I do not know if it has been pointed out that Taautus of Egyptian and Phoenician mythology is the same as Taaus of the Babylonian mythology. The name means "The One Who Does Things for the Spirits".
He is also the Theos of the Thracians.
He was the private secretary and executive of the Gods.
Ammianus Marcellinus.: "There are certain underground galleries and passages full of windings which it is said that the adepts in the ancient rites (knowing that the Flood was coming and fearing that the memory of the sacred ceremonies would be obliterated) constructed in various places and distributed beneath the temples; which were mined with great labor. And, smoothing the walls, they engraved on them numerous kinds of birds and animals and countless varieties of creatures of another world, which they called hieroglyphics."
Josephus.: "The sons of Seth, being naturally of a good disposition, lived happily in the land without apostatizing and free from any evils whatsoever and they studiously turned their attention to the knowledge of the heavenly bodies and their configurations. And lest their science should at any time be lost among men, inasmuch as Adam had acquainted them that a universal aphanism or destruction of all things would take place alternately by the force of fire and the overwhelming powers of water,
they erected two columns, the one of brick and the other of stone, and engraved upon each of them their discoveries; so that in case the brick pillar should be destroyed by the waters the stone one might survive to teach men the things engraved upon it, and at the same time inform them that a brick one had formerly been also erected by them. It remains even to the present day in the land of the Siriad." (Antiquities, Book 1, Chapter 2.)
POINTS IN REGARD TO WHICH TRADITIONS ARE AGREED
The traditions handed down by the Egyptian priest Manetho, the Phoenician historian Sanchuniathon, and the Jewish historian Josephus are in better agreement than most tradition groups and are consistent that:
1. The records made before the Flood were on pillars.
2. They were written in hieroglyphics.
3. The pillars were in the Seriadic country.
4. They were made by the sons of Sydyk or Seth (the Cabiri).
5. That either after or before the Deluge copies were made in hieroglyphics on the walls of, or in books deposited in, extensive systems of underground chambers.
These traditions will be found translated in Cory's "Ancient Fragments" or in Mead's "Thrice Greatest Hermes".
WARNING OF DELUGE IN TIME TO MAKE RECORDS
As pointed out in "The Deluged Civilization", there was ample warning of the Deluge. For example, Noah of the Pentateuch and Atra-Hasis of the Babylonian tradition had time to build the immense Ark and the Telchines had tie to colonize Cos. So there would have been time to erect the monuments.
From the history of Berossus, quoted by Syncellus and Eusebius, it is clear that seals began to appear in increasing numbers as the Deluge drew near; which may be significant as indicating a breaking through of the Arctic Ocean into the Asiatic Mediterranean on the east of the Caucasus. The connection between the Arctic and the Asiatic Mediterranean is shown on Strabo's map but had probably ceased to exist by his time. The Caspian, Aral and Balkasch Seas are all that are now left of the Asiatic Mediterranean.
There is one interesting point about the Noah or Atra-Hasis traditions. In one tradition he left the Ark with his wife and the pilot and disappeared. The others thought he had been taken to heaven and make no further reference to him in their tradition. But in another tradition Gilgamesh goes to see him at his old home, to learn the story of the Deluge. It rather appears as if he and his wife and the pilot had gone back home immediately they got on dry ground. In the Pentateuch one of the versions states that Noah walked with God, an expression used also of Enoch; so there is some indication that some of the survivors of the Deluge did not know what had become of the others, because they separated as soon as dry land appeared.
LOCATION OF THE SERIADIC LAND
The monuments were not in Egypt for two reasons; Seirios until a comparatively late date always meant the sun itself and not the star; if Josephus had meant Egypt he would have said so. I have also a Phoenician reference which shows that Siriadic land cannot mean Egypt.
The word Siriadic might mean one of three things, in view of the form "-iadic":
1. The country of the sun (Seirios).
2. The country of the lasso users (seira).
3. The country of the Seres.
These are all the same land, that is the North Caucasus Isthmus, Asiatic Sarmatia. For it was the land of Ur or Apollo where, according to a fragment of the Phaethon of Euripides, he stabled his horses. The Seira was, according to Liddell and Scott, Greek Dictionary, "a line with a noose used by the ancient Sagartians and Samartians to entangle their enemies.
( This is mentioned in several myths of the regions history. Hints of a people of Metaphysical skills. S ) Herod. 7.85 and Paus. 1.21.8".
And the Seres lived there, according to Strabo 11.5.8 and Muller's Ptolemy, page 905. The latter states that their kingdom was near the mouth of the Hypanis (now Kuban), but from other writers it extended across the whole isthmus and this agrees with the fact that they were the first to establish caravan routes from there to Babylon. See Strabo, ibid.
MEANING OF SYDYK
That the steles were built by the sons of Sydyk is significant because sydyk means "pointing up to the sky" and was the name given to an ithyphallic monument. The root is found in this meaning in the Greek word "sideunes".
LOCATION OF THE SYDYKS
Stieler's Hand Atlas of 1905, Plate 49, P. 19, shows right in the center of the eyot where the long mounds define the position of the city of Ur or Apollo, a village called Pssydache (Sydach). I believe this to be the position of one of the steles.
PSSYDACHE THE BRICK OR THE STONE STELE
This was probably the brick stele. The city of Ur, that is Urach, was the Erech of the Gilgamesh epic of the Babylonian inscriptions. The name survives in Terek. "Sevenfold Erech of the wide plazas" was sevenfold Tartarus of the wide ring-shaped plazas with their race tracks, etc., between the encircling canals. Erech, we are told, had brick walls, which would be natural on account of the convenient clay and bitumen. So it is rather more than probable that the stele of Pssidache was built of brick; and for other reasons (Erythria, etc.) it was probably red brick.
The stone stele would be built where stone was convenient and to the south, for the north was the plain which was to be inundated and there was no convenient stone or good foundation. Going south, about thirty miles we come to the pass of Arabus or Erebus, and the stone stele might have been placed there.
But at the further end of the pass where it debouches into the Alizon valley, which we know was the other home of the Cabiri, is a town called Achmuti or Eshmuti. As Eshmun or Achmun was the eighth Cabiri we might reasonably look for the stele in this neighborhood.
About ten miles down the Alizon valley is another place called Semochada Scheni, which means "Sun City of the Scheni." (The Phoeni or Phoenicians, the Fenku of the Egyptian Book of the Dead.)
ITINERARY OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
The Egyptian Book of the Dead gives the itinerary of the dead exactly as Homer gives it (see Chapter 125 et seq.). But the transportation is in the hands of the Phoeni. A ritual (burying a lamp with a glass chimney and digging it up again) is gone through at the "city north of the olive tree", that is, Phanagoria (for olive yards of Phanagoria see Smith, Classical Dictionary) at the mouth of the Kuban. The shade sees Tartarus at a distance, goes through the pass of Erebus, and comes out into the Alizon valley at Tioneti (To-neter, the "Holy Land"). About ten miles down the shade comes to Eshmuti (Eshmun city); a little further down, to the "City of the Sun of the Phoeni" (or possibly of the Overseers, Shemochada-Scheni). Still further down the valley is "Sekhet-Eli", the fields of the sun or Osirus (Sakately) . And finally to the mountain of Bakhu, the "Mountain of Sunrise", projecting easterly into the Caspian Sea (now Baku), and the Sek-het-sasi or "flaming fields" common to the Egyptian, Greek and Parsee mythologies.
THE RIDDLE OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
To-neter (the "land of the Aet-Ur) was south of the Caucasus, on the other side of Erebus from the Siriadic Land, i.e. Asiatic Sarmatia. When one remembers the great olive yards of Phanagoria and the mineral oil of the Baku district, the riddle of the 125th Chapter of the Book of the Dead ("What is thy name?" "I am he who is assembled under the flowers and who dwelleth in the olive-tree") is easily answered. It is oil, mineral and vegetable, i.e. Fire, Hermes.
The Book of the Dead, chapters 147 and 149 is a most valuable guide book to the Caucasus region, as it gives the names of the tribes, places, etc. in considerable detail. In Chapter 147 the doorkeepers of the seven Arits or earths or countries are mentioned by title and are not the names of individuals, of which a place name sometimes forms a part. But the Watchers are in all cases the different tribes or nations, beginning with the Cimmerians, the Seres, etc. And the Heralds are the marks or boundaries which indicate to the shade when he is passing from one nation's territory into that of another. The route above the head of Oceanus seems to have been more southerly than that of Homer, for we find "Teb-hra-ha-Keft" (Tiber or Keft) given as one of the Heralds.
It will be noted that the entrance was between pylons (the Bo-az pillars). In Chapter 149 the fourteen aats are different regions beyond Erebus. The first is Asmuti, then Hercules (now Melikarth), etc.
Most of the identifications are direct, the names being unchanged. For example, "the two sycamore trees of turquoise, from between which the God Ra doth emerge when he setteth out upon his journey over the Pillars of Shu towards the door of the lord of the East, wherefrom Ra cometh forth" is unmistakably the gap at Shu-mash of Mar-ash.
But one would not immediately identify Sekhet-Aaru, literally "The Field of Reeds", the name of the land of paradise or heaven, with Sakat-ali unless one knew that El was the other name of Shem, the sun-god; and that Ta Shema meant "reed land" in Egyptian; and so Sekhet-Aaru was merely the name used to the uninitiated for the hidden or secret name, Sekhet-Shem or Sekhet-Eli.
Another instance of this is the use of the name "Heru-khuti", i.e. Hercules, for the Phoenician title (Melikarth) of Hercules.
EXACT LOCATION DETERMINED BY OVERLAPPING OF TRADITIONS
We have seen how the Greek, Phoenician and Egyptian traditions overlap, starting from the entrance to the sea of Azov and extending through the pass of Dariel, as far east as Baku and the "Flaming Fields" at the extremity of the peninsula of Apsuron.
Analogously the Babylonian traditions start at the eastern extremity of the peninsula of Apsuron at Shamasha and Marash and extend west, past Sabuje and Napare-uli or Sapare-uli, through the pass of Dariel to Terek (Tartarus) on the north, Tamischiera on the west, and Bit-Jakin on the east. Overlapping, therefore, the other three traditions, Greek, Phoenician and Egyptian.
This overlapping enables us to determine quite exactly the location of the chambers where the records were stored after transcription and translation from the steles.
For Berossus' record of the Deluge, which he took from the cuniform records in the temples at Babylon, states that Cronus bade Atra-Hasis "setting down in writing the beginning, middle and end of all things, to bury them in Sippara, the City of the Sun; to build a boat and go aboard it with his family" and that "after the Flood some of those saved went to Babylonia, dug up the writings from Sippara, founded many cities, built temples, and so repopulated Babylonia".
The original Babylonia (Bab-al-on, "Gate to the Land of the Sun", Havilah, Pshaveli) was, we know from other evidence (see "The Deluged Civilization" pp. 49, 50, 75, 76) substantially the same as the land of Dilmun, i.e. the-Alizon valley where are now the Plain of Adschinour, Chaldan, Lagodeschi, etc.
And Napare-Uli of the Stieler Atlas (Papare-Uli of the Times Atlas) is Sippara-Eli, i.e. "Sippara of the Sun". It was there that the records were stored . And we may be sure that, even if the records were removed for consultation, they were replaced because there would be no better way of keeping them.
THE RECORD STELES NOT THE PILLARS OF HERCULES
The brick and stone steles were not, we may be fairly sure, the Pillars of Hercules. The Pillars of Hercules were erected to Ur the Fire God and to Al the Storm God. These two gods were amalgamated into one twin god, possibly from some incident as that described in the life of Elijah (1 Kings, 18), the god of fire. Fires were kept burning on top of the twin pillars. Later these fires were shielded by glass, so that one gave a green, the other a yellow, light. Herodotus describes those at Tyre as "Two pillars, one of pure gold, the other of emerald, shining with great brilliancy at night." The pillars were called Jakin and Boaz. See 1 Kings, 7;15.
LOCATION OF THE PILLARS OF HERCULES
Theres much more
Its a fascinating read:
http://www.radiocom.net/Deluge/Deluge7-10.htm
..