Secret_History

Chapter 9: Percy-ing the Veil 331
and Belus, the mythical hero of Egypt, loved this daughter named Libya. Agenor
in turn was the father of Europa and her brothers Cadmus the founder of the Greek
Thebes, Phoenix (the eponym of Phoenicia), Cilix (the eponym of Cilicia), and
Thasus (the eponym of the island of Thasos), all of whom founded settlements and
cities during their quest for their sister after she had been loved and abducted by
Zeus taking the guise of a bull to become the mother of the Cretan king Minos.
Belus, for his part, gave birth to Danaus and Egyptus, whose offspring returned to
Argos.
Now, looking at the Biblical version of the same myths, Abraham was the father
of Ishmael who was the ‘father of the Arabs’, according to the Hebrew texts.
Hermes was supposed to have been the father of Arabus who was also called the
‘father of the Arabs’. This Arabus was the legendary father of Cassiopeia, which is
almost a parallel development with just some name changes. It seems as though
Arabus and Ishmael were comparatively the same in type and function and there
are further comparisons to be made. But, the essential thing here is that Cassiopeia
would then have been a granddaughter of Hermes/Abraham and a daughter of
Ishmael. This would mean that the granddaughter of Ishmael was “Andromeda”,
the bride of Perseus, the son of Danae, the daughter of the king of Argos. We note
also that the mother of Ishmael was “Hagar the Egyptian”. Cassiopeia was said to
have been married to Cepheus, the King of either “Joppa” or Ethiopia. Most
sources say Ethiopia.
As it happens, this Ethiopia of which Cepheus was king, is not the land we know
of as Ethiopia today. 230 We notice that Eusebius tells us, “In the reign of
Amenophis III a body of Ethiopians migrated from the country about the Indus,
and settled in the valley of the Nile”. We might toss this aside as mere fable except
for the fact that a similar statement is made by Apollonius of Tyana: “The
Ethiopians are colonists sent from India”. This is a very important clue,
particularly the “time of Amenophis III”, but we will not pursue it here. We will
pause, however, to comment on the fact that Memnon, the son of Aurora and
Tithonus, was also said to be the King of the Ethiopians to the “extreme East”.
Memnon was related to Priam, King of Troy, and came to fight in the Trojan War.
Perhaps Cepheus and Memnon were the same individual since both the two names
are related to “head” etymologies.
Returning to the remarks of Fulcanelli in describing the transmission of the
knowledge of the “descent of a venerable God”, further explicating the matter by
telling us that Diodorus was on the right track when he said, “this star was not one
of those which people the heavens, but a certain virtue or urano-diurnal force,
having assumed the form of a star in order to announce the birth of the Lord
among us”, we find that we are dealing with matters having to do with the “inner
230 “The Road to Meluhha” in Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 41, 1982, pp. 279-288.