Konstantinos Konstantinidis – Amphiktyon
According to ancient tradition, the first king of Egypt was Hephaestus, followed by Helios (the Sun) and then Cronus. Cronus married his sister Rhea and begot Osiris and Isis. Osiris-Dionysus and his wife Isis built the city of Hecatompylos (“the Hundred-Gated City”) and gave it the surname of their mother Rhea; later it became known as Thebes. Osiris also fathered Anubis with his sister Nephthys.
As Diodorus Siculus relates, Actis, the son of Helios and a descendant of the earliest inhabitants of Rhodes, the Telchines—who according to tradition were so ancient that they cared for Poseidon when he was an infant—sailed from Rhodes to Egypt and founded Heliopolis there.
Later, a great flood befell the Greeks, and because of this deluge most of the people perished, along with the written records and monuments of the Greeks. This, it is said, was the reason why the Egyptians appropriated the knowledge of astronomy, since the Greeks could no longer appeal to written evidence. Consequently, the belief prevailed that the Egyptians were the first to discover the constellations and assign names to them.
In a similar manner, the Athenians who had founded a city called Sais suffered the same ignorance because of the flood. For these reasons, many generations later, Cadmus and his son Agenor came to be regarded as the first discoverers of letters, having brought them to Greece from Phoenicia, which was considered Greek according to this tradition.
The gods of the Greeks and the Greeks themselves are said to have built one hundred and twenty-six (126) cities in Egypt, from the age of Hephaestus until the time of Alexander the Great, including the cities founded during the Ptolemaic period.
The Dynasties of Ancient Egypt
Before the great flood in Egypt, the gods ruled from 32,544 B.C. until 18,644 B.C. From 16,644 B.C. until 15,389 B.C., the demigods ruled. Thereafter, the heroes governed for 11,985 years. Later began the age of kings and the dynasties of the Spirits of the Dead.
Herodotus states that 11,340 years before his own time, Egypt was ruled by the gods. After that, no god appeared again in human form.
(To be continued)
June 2, 2026
Amphiktyon – Lieutenant General (Ret.) Konstantinos Konstantinidis
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