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A51638	The Egyptian history, treating of the pyramids, the inundation of the Nile, and other prodigies of Egypt, according to the opinions and traditions of the Arabians written originally in the Arabian tongue by Murtadi, the son of Gaphiphus, rendered into French by Monsieur Vattier ... and thence faithfully done into English by J. Davies ...	Murtaḍā ibn al-ʻAfīf, 1154 or 5-1237.; Vattier, Pierre, 1623-1667.; Davies, John, 1625-1693.	1672 (1672)	Wing M3128; ESTC R23142	128,209	344

second Pyramid which is the Colour'd is an ancient Nubian having a Basket on his head and in his hands a Censer like those used in Churches wherewith he incenses about it at all the Obelisks As to the Birba of Achemima its Spirit is a Young Man Beardless and Naked sufficiently known among the Inhabitants of the place The Spirit of the Birba of Semir is a black swarthy Old Man of high Stature and having a short Beard The Spirit of the Birba of of Phacat appears in the form of a black young Woman having in her arm a little black Infant deformed shewing his Dogs teeth and having his eyes all white The Spirit of the Birba of Ridousa appears in the form of a Man having the head of a Lion with two long Horns The Spirit of the Birba of Busira appears in the form of an old white Monk carrying a Book The Spirit of the Birba of Gaphi appears in the form of a Shepherd clad in a black Robe with a Staff in his hand As to the Pyramids of Dehasoura their Spirits are seen in the form of two black old Men. The Spirit of the Birba of Samnos appears in the form of a Monk who comes out of the Sea and views himself in it as in a Looking-glass All these Spirits are manifestly seen by such as come near them and the places of their retirement and frequent there abouts along time There are for all of them certain particular Offerings by means whereof it is possible the Treasures of the Birbas and the Pyramids may appear and that there may be a friendship and familiarity between Men and Spirits according to what the Sages have establish'd Saurid the Son of Sahaloc says the Author continued King of Egypt a hundred and seven years His Astrologers told him the time he should die whereupon he made his last Will to his Son Hargib told him whatever was necessary for him and ordered him to have him carried into the Pyramid and to have him disposed into the Tomb which he himself had caused to be made that he should cover the bottom of it with Camphire and Santal-wood and that he should enbalm his body with the drugs which prevent corruption and that he should leave by him the richest of his Armour and the most precious of his Housholdstuff His Son performed all this after his death and then Hargib Reigned after his Father in the Land of Egppt and follow'd his footsteps being careful as he had been to administer Justice to the People to have the Countrey cultivated and inhabited and to procure the wellfare of his Subjects which obliged them to have a great affection for him He afterwards caused to be built the first of the Pyramids of Dehasoura and to be brought thither abundance of Wealth and precious Stones of great value Hargib was particularly addicted to Chemistry to get Metals out of the Mines and to gather money he afterwards enterred every year a great quantity thereof and minded not the putting of Statue and speaking Idols into his Pyramid He a long time continued that exercise during which he had a Daughter who being grown up suffer'd herself to be debauched by one of hi● people which obliged him to sent her away into the West where he had a City built for her in the Countrey of Barca This City being built they gave it the name of that Princess which was as they say Domeria For he caused a Pilory t● be built in the midst of the City and her name to be grav'd on it then he sent to live there with her all the old Women of his House He continued King ninety nine years then dyed and was interred in the Pyramids His Son Menaos Reigned after him in Egypt and was a proud and hauty Prince who spilt much blood ill treated his Subjects Ravished many Women and squandered away a great part of the Treasures of his Ancestors For he built Palaces of Gold and Silver into which he brought Chanels of the Nile the bottom whereof he caused to be covered with Jacinths and other precious stones instead of Sand. He tormented Men and took away their goods and Cattel by force This got him the hatred of the People and at last the Beast he rid on threw him and broke his neck Gods curse go with him So God delivered the Egyptians of him As to the History of the Deluge and the adventures of Noah to whom God grant peace and mercy take in few words what is said thereof They relate that Adam Gods peace be with him after God had descended from Paradice and been merciful to him after his Sin was by God himself appointed King of the Earth and Mankind descended of his Race He was the first that Prayed to God Fasted and knew how to Read and Write He was Beardless and Hairless comely and well made There was afterwards sent him one and twenty pages of Writings then he dyed aged nine hundred and fifty years His li 〈…〉 should have been a thousand years but he bestowed fifty of them on hi● Son David His Successor and L 〈…〉 gatee was his Son Seth to whom a 〈…〉 to whose Children continued the Prophecy with the true Religion and the Superintendency of Divine Laws God afterwards sent Seth twenty nine sheets He liv'd on the Mountain and Cabel built in the bottom of the Valley Seth lived nine hundred and twelve years and had for Successor his Son Enos who lived nine hundred and fifty years and appointed for hi● Successor after his death his Son Cainan in whose favour he made his last Will and afterwards distributed the Earth among the Sons of his Sons Cainan died aged nine hundred and twenty years and made his last Testament in favour of his Son Mahalel In his time the square Temple was built He died aged nine hundred seventy five years and appointed for Successor his Son Jared whom he taught all the Sciences and told all that was to happen in the World He considered the Stars and read the Book of the secrets of the Kingdom which was sent from Heaven to Adam then he had to his son Enoch who is Edrisus Gods peace be with him There was then King in the World Mechavel the son of Cabel The Devil Gods curse with him went to him seduced him by his deceits and made him fall into errour then he told him that there was born to Jared the son of Mahalel a son who should be an enemy to theie Gods and come to great reputation Whereto Jared answered Canst not thou destroy him I 'le endeavour to do it said the Devil Whereupon God gave Edrisus Gods peace be with him Angels to guard him from the Devil and from his Progeny and Artifices When he was grown up to adolescency his Father made him Guardian of the Temple and taught him the sheets of Seth and Adam Gods peace be with them He was

Figure of a Woman standing on her head and two Lions of wh●te stone lying on each side of her which seem'd to roar and endeavour to bite They recommended themselves to God and went on and kept on their way till they saw a Light after which going out at an open place they perceiv'd they were in a great Sandy Desert At the passage out of that open place there were two Statues of black stone having Half Pikes in their hands They were extremely astonish'd whereupon they began to return towards the East till they came near the Pyramids on the out side This happen'd in the time of Jezid the Son of Gabdolmelic the Son of Gabdol Governour of Egypt who having heard of it sent some persons with those before spoken of to observe the open place of the Pyramid They sought it several days but could never find it again whereupon they were accounted fools But they shew'd him the head of a Ring which one of them had taken in the Assembly-place which they had found in the Pyramid which obliged him to believe what they said That head was valued at a great summe of money It is further related that other persons in the time of the Commander Achemed the Son of Toulon God shew him mercy entered in like manner into the Pyramid and found there a Cruse of red Glass which they brought away As they came out they lost one of their Men which oblig'd them to go in again to look for him They found him stark naked laughing continually and saying to them Trouble not your selves to look for me After which he got away from them and return'd into the Pyramid Whence they inferr'd that the Spirits had distracted him whereupon they went out and left him there Upon which they were accused before the Judge who condemn'd them to exemplary punishment and took away from them the Cruse which had in it four pound of glass A certain person said thereupon that that Cruse had not been set in that place for nothing Which occasioned the filling of it with water and then being weighed again it weighed as much as when it was empty and no more They afterwards took off some of that water several times but the Vessel came still to the same weight Whence they conjectured that it was one of the Wine-vessels whereof the Ancients had made use and had been made to that purpose by their Sages and placed there For the use of Wine was permitted among them This was a strange Miracle They relate further several Stories of this kind and among others that some entered into the Pyramid with a Child to abuse it and that having committed that sin there came out against them a black young Man with a Cudgel in his hand who beat them furiously so that they fled leaving there their Meat and their Cloaths The same thing happen'd to others in the Pyramid of Achemima There entered also into the Pyramid of Achemima a Man and a Woman to commit Adultery therein but they were immediately cast along on the ground and dyed in a Phrensie When the Priests says the Author had told King Saurid of the great conflagration which was to happen by Fire and that that Fire should come out of the Sign Leo he caused to be made in the Pyramids certain windings which abutted upon narrow Vaults which drew the Winds into the Pyramids with a dreadful noise He also caused Chanels to be made therein by which the Water of the Nile came in at the same place then it retreated of it self and return'd into the Nile by another passage after the manner of the Cisterns which are made for the reception of Rain-water He also caused certain Chanels to be made therein which reach'd to certain places of the Land of the West and to certain places of the Land of Upper Egypt He fill'd those Subterraneous places with prodigious things Statues speaking Idols and Talismans Some Coptites affirm that after the coming of the Deluge and the Conflagration had been predicted to him he said to the Astrologers Shall our Countrey suffer some part of these misfortunes It shall reply'd they be afflicted with a desolation which shall continue so many years that the Dragons and Vipers shall be so exceedingly multiplied therein that none shall dare to pass through it And whence shall this desolation come said Saurid From the King of a remote Countrey said they who shall destroy its Inhabitants and so ruine it that the marks thereof shall remain eternally clearly carrying away all its Wealth But after that it shall be repeopled by his Son born of one of his Bond-women This King was Nahuchodonozor who destroy'd Egypt and whose Son Balsas born of a Captive Coptess repeopled it and built there the Castle and the Church Mugalleca or Suspended What shall happen after that said Saurid to the Priests There will come into Egypt replyed they a Nation of ugly and deformed People from the Coast of the Nile that is from the Countrey whence it comes which Nation shall possesse it self of the greatest part thereof After that said he again what shall happen It s Nile shall fail it reply'd they and its Inhabitants shall forsake it Then it shall be possessed first by a Barbarous Nation whose language shall be unknown and which shall come from the Eastern Coast afterwards by another coming from the Western Coast which shall be the last He commanded all this to be writ down and that it should be graved on the Pyramids and Obelisks One of the things which confirm this discourse by their consonancy is that Abucabil the Mogapherian the Pacifier related this to Achamed the Son of Toulon God shew him mercy when he entered into Egypt With the help of God we shall speak of him hereafter As to the Spirits which are met in the Pyramids and the like Structures and the forms under which they appear the Author to whom God shew mercy speaks of them briefly thus in a Chapter he hath expresly made of them They relate saith he several things of the Pyramids which would be long to declare but as to the Spirits which reign over them and such other Structures named Birba's they say that the Spirit of the Meridional Pyramid never appears out of it but in the form of a naked Woman who has not even her privy parts covered beautiful as to all other parts and whereof the behaviour is such as when she would provoke any one to love and make him distracted she laughs on him and presently he approches her and she draws him to her and besots him with love so that he immediately grows mad and wanders like a Vagabond up and down the Countrey Divers persons have seen her walking about the Pyramid about Noon and about Sun-set One day she distracted one of the People of the Chacambermille who was afterwards seen running stark naked through the streets without fear or wit The Spirit of the