Claudius F. Mayer: From Plato to Pope Paul / Orvostörténeti Közlemények – Supplementum 17. (Budapest, 1989)

82 He suggested divorce if the wife was sterile. Martin MARTINI, Jesuit missionary of the 17th cent. (História Sinica, Lib. VI. cap. 1) mentions the later practice that the Chinese took concubines when there was no hope of issue from a lawful wife. They held it the greatest misfortune to be without children who could accord then the honor of mourning and burial at their death. 83 ROLLESTON, J. D. (1926): Alcoholismus in classical Antiquity. British Journal of Inebriety, 24: 101. Also FREST G. P. (1931): Alcohol and the Other Germ Poisons. The Hague.—In 3,000 B. C. Emperor Fu-Shi decapitaded the inventor of wine. In 2,285 B. C. an imperial order banned a man from China, because he discovered the preparation of an alcoholic drink from rice. Emperor YŰ (ca. 2,200 B. C.) banned the wine from his table. One of his followers sentenced any drunkard to death. 84 REIBMAYR, 1. c. footnote 56, 161. 85 The Egyptians had seven castes (HERODOTOS), or 5 castes (DIODOROS SIC.). They recognized the value of hereditary professions in the artisans' caste. In the quarries of Hamamal, a pedigree remained which mentions 23 members of the same family who were architects one after áñother (until the time of Darius). 86 GOULD, C. W. (1922): America, a Family Matter. N. Y. p. 16. Miscegenation was the cause of the fall.

.. of Egypt. 87 WENDT, 1. c., footnote 69. These races and their modern equivalents are: I.) Ludu = Egyptian, Hamitic, 2.) Aamu = Semitic, 3.) Nahasu = Nilotic and Negro, 4.) Tamahu —IndoEuropean and Berber. 88 In the Old and Middle Kingdom, no Negro ship was permitted to pass down the Nile. The exchange of ivory, gold, and slaves was limited to the island at Syene. A stone pillar marked the boundary which to tresspass was prohibited. At the lower end of the Nile, commerce was restricted to the small island of Pharos until the 7th century B. C. 89 Importation of ignorant, utterly alien degraded the state (GOULD, 1922). Egyptians were not permitted to marry, or even to eat together with aliens, including Jews (See GENESIS, 43:32): I "Egyptians hold it an abnomination to eat with Hebrews." All Bible references are to The New English Bible. Oxford, 1970. 90 Chief among these races were the Jews who discovered the way to the Nile valley long ago. See the story of "Joseph in Egypt" (GENESIS, 37 to 50). ISAIAH (19:18) mentions five Jewish cities in Egypt, one of them named Heliopolis. See also JOUGUET P. (1928): Macedonian Imperialism and the Hellenization of the East. N. Y. 269. 91 Chapter 1 of EXODUS describes how the Pharaoh wanted to engage the services of Shiphrah and Puah, two Hebrew midwives, for the infanticide. This is the first documented genocide in history ordered by a ruler. The Lord's retaliation came soon (See EXODUS, 12:29). These events occurred between ca 1300 and 1200 B. C. (See HALL H. R. (1932): The ancient History of the Near East. 8. ed., Lond. 92 JOUGUET, 1. c„ footnote 90, 340. 93 The Egyptian's own gods showed good examples;

—the brothers Osiris and Set married their sisters Isis and Nephthys. Among Egyptian royality, AKHENATEN (or Amenhotep IV) (1388-1358 B. C.) was 13 years old when he succeeded to the throne of Egypt after his father's death. For some time, the regent was his mother, Queen Tiy. She allowed him to marry two women. First he married Tadukhipa, one of his father's widows; then, he married Nefertiti, his own full sister, thus making his succession triple sure (See PORTER, C. F. (1962): The Great Religious Leaders, N. Y.) Such closely relative marriage also continued after the conquest of Egypt by the Romans (C. F. WILIKEN, 1889; 1. by REIBMAYR, 1. c. footnote 56, 165.) 94 In a hymn written to Sun god Aton, the poet starts: "Creator of the germ in woman, Maker of the seed in man. Giving life to the son In the body of the mother.

.." (Cf. POTTER, 1. c. footn. 93) 95 DIODOROS SICULUS, L. I, LXXVIII; q. by MONPIN, 1 c. footnote 65. 96 WENDT, 1. c. footnote 69.—See also BUDGE E. A. W. (1966): The Book of the Dead

, New York. Here, at the "psychostasia

" ( —weighing of the conscience) the soul of the deceased AN is represented by a human-headed hawk. There is also reference here that, by hunting gods and eating them, a person can secure eternal life for himself. 52