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

104 101 Myths of the Bible
Libya, and Cepheus of Ethiopia, but ruling in Joffa in Canaan. The fourth son,
Phineas, has a name meaning Ethiopian.
Belus and Ham share a number of characteristics.
1. Belus is the son of Poseidon, god of the oceans, and Ham is the son of Noah,
who is not only the survivor of a worldwide flood, but has been identified herein
with Nun, an Egyptian equivalent to Poseidon.
2. Each is the father of four sons, three of whom are identified with Egypt,
Ethiopia, and Libya.
3. Belus’s fourth son, Cepheus, is sometimes identified as a Canaanite king and
Ham’s fourth son corresponds to Canaan.
4. Belus is portrayed as the brother of the King of Canaan while Ham, his biblical
counterpart, appears as the father of Canaan. However, the biblical genealogy is
ambiguous and, as we saw earlier in Myth #33, the Bible at times suggests that
Canaan was the brother of Ham rather than the son.
Although the genealogical structure between the two family trees is almost identical,
there is one significant difference in emphasis. Genesis relates the genealogy to the
evolution of mankind immediately after worldwide destruction. The Greek myth is
simply couched in geopolitical symbolism. Nevertheless, it shows an early tradition in
which Egypt appeared as the brother of Libya, Ethiopia, and Canaan.
Finally, we should note that the Greek Danoi, who disappeared from the historical
record by the first millennium B.C., were one of the “Sea Peoples,” a group of Greek
allies (among whom were the Philistines) who invaded Canaan in the thirteenth and
twelfth centuries B.C., about the same time that Israel settled there after the Exodus
from Egypt. This would suggest that the Greeks brought the myth into Canaan
where Hebrew scribes picked it up and incorporated it into their world history.