The Sirius Mystery by Robert K. G. Temple

Author:Robert K. G. Temple
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Notes

1. Graves, The Greek Myths, op. cit., 120.1.

2. Ibid.

3. Ibid., 120.1.

4. Larousse Encyclopaedia of Mythology, Paul Hamlyn, London, 1965, pp. 90-1.

5. Lindenblad, op. cit. (see Notes to Chapter One). See also further discussion in Chapter Eight.

6. Greek Myths, I3i.g. and 131.2.

7. Greek Myths, 3.C.

8. Ibid., 3.3.

9. Benardete, Seth. Herodotean Inquiries, The Hague, 1969, p. 126.

to. See the end of his Introduction to Greek Myths, op. cit.

ti. The four books by Eva Meyrowitz are now out of print. In the fourth book of the series (see Note 12) the author describes the series: 'This is the fourth volume of the series of which the first, The Sacred State of the Akan [1951], gives a picture of the old Akan civilization. The second, Akan Traditions of Origin [1952], deals with the early history of the people who now call themselves Akan. The third, The Akan of Ghana, their Ancient Beliefs [1958, originally entided The Akan Cosmological Drama], showed the development of their religion. The fourth, here presented, attempts to show that Akan religion, which includes the cult of the divine king and the main features of their social organization, is largely derived from Ancient Egypt.' Eva Meyrowitz is an anthropologist from Cape Town who worked in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) from 1936-45 studying the peoples of that country. The third volume mentioned above (1958) contains a final chapter which is entitled 'Analogies to Akan Beliefs and Customs in Libyan North Africa'. As for the Akan peoples, they speak languages of the Twi branch of the Kwa subfamily of the Western Sudanic linguistic stock and inhabit the eastern part of Ivory Coast, the southern half of Ghana, and parts of Togo. The majority are in Ghana, where they settled in successive waves between the nth and 18th centuries. All of Meyrowitz's books above, and the fourth mentioned in Note 12, were published by Faber in London.

12. The Divine Kingship in Ghana and Ancient Egypt (originally entitled The Akan of Ghana, the Akan Divine Kingship and Its Prototype in Ancient Egypt), Faber, London, i960. Went out of print in February 1963. The map is adapted from one in this book.

13. Greek Myths, op. cit., 8.

14. Ibid., 8.2.

15. Ibid., 34.

16. Ibid., 21.2.

17. Ibid., 34.1. and 34.3.

18. Ibid., 143.5.

19. The Odes of Pindar, trans, by C. M. Bowra, Penguin paperback, 1969, p. 176.

20. Graves, Greek Myths, op. cit., 6o.a.

21. Ibid., 6o.b.

22. Ibid., 6o.b.

23. Ibid., 6o.f.

24. Ibid., i52.e.

25. Ibid., 58.5. and e-g.

26. I will complete the quotation from Graves here: . . Chthonius ("of the soil"); Hyperenor ("man who comes up") and Pelorus ("serpent") -are characteristic of oracular heroes. But "Pelorus" suggests that all Pelasgians, not merely the Thebans, claimed to be born in this way; their common feast is the Peloria (see 1.2.)'. The remaining three names are thus seen to be quite as one would expect.

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