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^Chapter Three
THERE WAS A GROUP AMONG THE ANCIENTS
called Al-Kabut who worked in this knowledge.
They were one of the most knowledgeable in this
held. They were also the ones that told the stories
about Hermes the first who built those famous Temples by
the Nile at the Moon Mountain and made on the same
mountain a Temple for the Sun that would suddenly
disappear in front of the people's eyes. He is also the one
that built the twelve-mile long eastern city of Egypt and
built a fortress that had four doors facing the four
directions and he made on each door a different statue. On
the side east door he made a statue of an eagle. On the
west side door he made a statue of a bull. On the north
side door he made a statue of a lion and on the south side
door he made a statue of a dog. He inhabited these statues
with talking spirits, so if someone approached the statues
they would talk and make horrible frightful noises and
scare anyone coming near it, unless they come in with
permission from the mediatory of each statue in each
direction He also planted a great tree that had plenty of
different kinds of fruit He made on the top of the castle a
thirty cubit long lighthouse with a dome on top that
changes colors every day for seven days men goes back to
the first color again. He made the light from the dome
shine on the city and gives it a different color every day.
He also made plenty of water around the lighthouse with
endless fish in it. He made amulets of all kinds around the
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