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The great glory," says Sota, " of our Spaia is, that at the com- 

 mencement of its establishment and foundation by Tubal (the grandson 

 of J^oah) and his family, the sciences so flourished, and with universal 

 fame, that princes came from all regions of the globe to be instructed 

 in them.""^' 



" Astur, son of Osiris," he adds, " was the founder of the sovereignty 

 and colonizer of the region north of Spain, including Gallicia andBiscay." 



Horus was the ruler over Arragon, Catalonia, and Valencia ; and 

 after he had extinguished" the three brothers Jerones (Geriones), kings 

 of Spain, who had been spared by Osiris when he slew their father, the 

 giant King Jerone (Gerione), he died with great glory. 



A Spanish ecclesiastical dignitary, and doctor of exalted station, Don 

 Gabriel Pasqual y Orbaneja, in a work entitled " Almeria lUustrada en 

 su Antiquedad Origen y Grandeza y Vida de San Indalesio" (foL, Al- 

 meria, 1699), in his introduction states that his work is mainly based- 

 on the ancient Spanish ecclesiastical annals of Plavius Lucius Dexter. 



In a previous paper I have shown that these spurious annals were 

 fabricated by Father Higuera, and were condemned eventually by the 

 authorities of the Roman Catholic Church. 



Orbaneja sets out with the foundation of Almeria, the Puerto Magno 

 of the Eomans, by Tubal, and his coming into that part of Spain now 

 called Andalusia, in the year of the world 1799, after the deluge 143 

 years. 



Tubal was succeeded by Tago, son of Gomer, eldest son of Japhet. 

 Tago was succeeded by the Libyan Hercules, son of Osiris. 



After Hercules fourteen kings reigned in Spain, to whom succeeded 

 Alceo. 



Alceo was succeeded by Erithreo, and the latter by Melicola; and 

 then came Abidis, ''in whose time occurred the great drought, which 

 lasted twenty- six years, depopulating the country almost entirely, and 

 causing its people to fly into foreign distant lands."f 



''It is a constant tradition," says the author, "that when the 

 calamity ceased, many and diverse people came into Spain to people 

 it, and amongst the newcomers the principal were the Phoenicians." 



. He then proceeds to notice another great calamity of continuous 

 earthquakes that involved a great part of the nation in ruin, and com- 

 pelled its inhabitants to fly to various regions, which calamity occurred, 

 as Florian de Ocampo mentions, 500 years before Christ.J 



The Licenciado Geronimo Quintana, in his work, " La Muy Antiqua 

 Villa de Madrid; Historia de su Antiquedad E^obleza y Grandeza" 

 (foL, Mad., 1729), says — " The death of the King Abidis occurred in the 

 year 1 709 before the Christian era. He was the last king of Spain, with 

 whom closed the long line of Spanish kings .... The King Abidis 

 then being dead, and having left no successor, great vicissitudes that 

 changed the face of the country occurred, the punishments of ambition 



Sola, p. 160. t Orbaneja, " Almeria Illustrada," p. 13. J lb., p, 25. 



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