>>21592558Plato's ancestor, Solon, learned about Atlantis from the priests of the 26th dynasty in Sais, Egypt, whose goddess Neith was syncretized with Athena, goddess of Plato's city-state. Neith is a very important goddess in predynastic Egyptian dynasties (before Egypt was unified). Supposedly, the Greeks called the first kings of Ancient Egypt, Aeritae or Aeria, and they also claimed that both are corruptions of the same root for Atlas and Atlantis. The Aeritaens are predynastic demigods and spirits of the dead who migrated to Egypt. Or something like this. And the lineage given by Plato supposedly corresponds to the lineage given by Manetho, an Egyptian priest who lived during the Ptolemeic era. He is the author of Aegyptiaca, the history of Ancient Egypt, a work that has not survived in its entirety. Manetho knew how to read and write Hieroglyphs, but he did all his work in Greek.
The first Aeritaen king according to Manetho was Ptah-Hephaestus, the second Ra-Helios, the third Shu-Agathodaemon, the fourth Geb-Cronos, the fifth Osiris-??? (probably Dionysus), the sixth Seth-Typhon, the seventh Horus-??? (probably Hercules), the eighth Thoth-??? (probably Hermes), the ninth Maat-??? (probably Athena) and the tenth Horus-Apollo.
Horus appears twice because there are Horuses in Egyptian Mythology: Horus, the Elder (Haroeris) and Horus, the posthumous son of Osiris. In any case, it is interesting to discover in this connection that in Egypt the planet Saturn was Her-Ka, "Horus the Bull", which could be referring to this first Horus who in Sumer was known as Ninurta, the hero of the gods, like Hercules (which probably arose from the Phoenician version of Ninurta, Melqart, who also gave rise to Baal-Hammon, the god of Carthage).
