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iv. 15), neA^dwtt, i.e. the flower of the moon, which likewise signi- 

 fies syllabically both the moon and king Menes. Add that this 

 Menes is (L. vii. 15) expressly called kn km, i.e. ^«^a\. RHn, the 

 progenitor (of the Egyptians). Besides, the Vetus Chronicon 

 testifies that Menes and his sons ruled since the beginning of the 

 first Canicular period, July 19th, 2780 B.C. Even the Tablet of 

 Abydos specifies 34 kings from Menes to Osimandyas, who ruled 

 since 1730; and since, at that time, each king reigned summarily 

 30 years, Menes must have ruled 1020 years prior to Osimandyas^ 

 i.e. about 2750 B.C. Eratosthenes specifies from Menes to Osi- 

 mandyas (inclusive the omitted -l'r«^«^£vs/>(/^C «) 35 kings, and 

 hence Menes would Ifave reigned since 2780 B.C. Eratosthenes 

 gives the time of the same kings from Menes to Osimandyas as 

 970 years, or, including Stammenemes I., 1000 years. Accord- 

 ingly, Menes would have settled in Egypt 1000 years prior to 1730 

 B.C., i.e. 2730 B.C. Finally, the Tablet of Karnak preserved the 

 names of the kings who ruled in Mizraim, i.e. the eastern and 

 western parts of the Delta, from Menes to Thuthmos IV. (1866 

 B.C.) One of these catalogues enumerates 30, the other 28 kings 

 from Menes to the said king ; and, since regularly each king 

 ruled a human age, Menes must have occupied Egypt either in 

 2766 or 2706 B.C. according to the Tablet of Karnak. In short, 

 all these historical traditions concur in confirming the testimony 

 of the Vetus Chronicon, that Menes reigned since the beginning 

 of the first Canicular period in 2780 B.C. 



Let us now see whether this result is mathematically confirmed 

 by our 14 planetary configurations observed on the day of Me- 

 nes's arrival in Egypt. It is to be remembered that our Planetary 

 Tables express the point of the summer solstice by 3' 0°, that of 

 the winter solstice by 9° 0°, and the points of the equinoxes by 

 o' 0° and 6' 0°. Our approximate computation refers to _ 27S0, 

 July 16, 6h. (Paris time), which was the day of the summer sol- 

 stice (p. ). 



Ancient Observation. Coii/putation. 



© 3^ 0° © 3» 0° 



(i 7" 0'"— an" (i 7» 3° 



h ^' 0«' — 10° h 8' 4° 



7| 0^ (;° — 30° % 0» 13° 



d 8» C-^ — 10° d 8» 6" 



? 3= 10° - 20° 9 3» 15° 



$ 3= 0-^ — 10° 5 :;» -2° 



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