101 Myths of the Bible: how ancient scribes - Conscious Evolution TV

yth #47:
The Sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan.
The Myth: And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
(Gen. 10:6)
The Reality: This genealogy parallels that in an earlier Greek myth about the origins
of the Danoi, the Greeks who allegedly invaded Troy in the twelfth century B.C.
The Table of Nations makes Ham the father of four countries, Cush, Mizraim,
Phut, and Canaan. Ham, as we noted earlier, has a name identical to one of the ancient
names of Egypt, Keme. Three of his sons have names that easily can be identified with
nations in the Egyptian sphere. Cush is the ancient name of Ethiopia; Mizraim is the
Hebrew name for Egypt; and Canaan obviously corresponds to the land of Canaan.
The name of the fourth son is not as easily identified but it is usually equated with
Libya, which makes good geographical sense. Libya was the Greek name for all of
Africa west of Egypt.
In this genealogy, we have a geographic scheme in which Ham generally corresponds
to the area of Egypt and its surrounding neighbors, and his four sons constitute
four divisions within that region, Ethiopia to the south, Libya to the west, Egypt
in the center, and Canaan to the north.
The genealogy reflected in this branch of the biblical story closely adheres to that
appearing in a Greek myth about the origins of the Danoi, the Greek people who,
Homer wrote, conquered Troy at about the twelfth century B.C.
According to the Greek story, the god Poseidon (the Greek God of the seas)
mated with a woman named Libya. They had twin sons named Belus and Agenor.
The latter moved to Phoenicia where he became king, and Greeks believed him to be
the ancestor of all the Phoenicians.
Belus became king of Egypt and, according to the mythic traditions, he had four
sons, a set of twins named Danaus and Aegyptus and two other sons named Phineas
and Cepheus. According to the Greek stories, Aegyptus was king of Egypt, Danaus of
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