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Cinyras and Smyrna shows the correct orientation of the legend.
In this myth, King Cinyras extended his reign beyond eight years by
marrying his youngest daughter, the birth-goddess Smyrna. 876 In the
normal scheme of things, another princeling would marry her and thereby
inherit his kingdom. In other cases of planned prolongation, kings sought
to increase the period of their sovereignty by giving away two thirds of
their kingdom. 877 For example, Actor and Proteus both divided their
kingdoms into three parts, retaining only one part and bequeathing the
other two thirds to their successors. 878
In the Preface of this book, the author undertook to warn readers
about outlandish hypotheses. Here is a major challenge: Geoffrey of
Monmouth’s histories seem to bear little relationship to known historical
facts. This may be because they are often about important events in
Egypt two thousand years before his time. If this is indeed the case, these
events had monumental importance for the Israelites, as we saw in
Chapter 6. Shakespeare’s King Lear may well be the same age-old story
that had its greatest moment in history in the twenty-first dynasty of
Egypt, which divided the Kingdom of Egypt in 1075BCE. Thebes ruled
Southern Egypt and Tanis, in the far northeast of the Delta, governed the
new independent North Egypt. The folly of division weakened both states
and opened Egypt to a Libyan invasion in 945BCE. The Libyan Pharaoh
Shoshenq I overthrew all Egypt.
This hypothesis explains the real inspiration behind the well
known, despairing, yet unprovable legend of the division of Solomon’s
kingdom between Solomon’s son Rehoboam and an official of Solomon’s
court called Jeroboam. 879 The division of the kingdom between
Rehoboam and Jeroboam may really be an allegory of the acrimonious
rift between the parallel Israelite religions of Levite Judaism in the South
and universal hermetic religion of the Tribe of Dan at Panias in the North.
Now we look at division of the kingdom in the English context.
In 1292, King Edward I of England faced the great cause of Scotland,
whether he should divide Scotland. 880 His judges needed to decide a
difficult question, whether the kingship of Scotland should be awarded to
a representative of one of the three co-heiress daughters of David earl of
Huntingdon (the younger brother of William the Lion) or partitioned
between them.
This was to rule on two important issues. The first was
divisibility of the kingdom and the second was the proper moral and legal
solution to a clash between Western primogeniture and the ancient
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