The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-03-02
For the Wyandot Pioneer.
Extracts from Mr.. Dement'S Lectures.

Extracts from Mr.. Dement'S Lectures.
EGYPT.
rConlinued from last week
To this city Salatis repaired in summer
time to collect his tribe, and to pay and
drill his troops, that they might be ready
for action, and thus hold in terror those
who might be willing to attempt an inva-
sion. @ ia u @ d
Salatis was, on his death succeeded by
five successive kings, who did their ut
most, as we'll as their predecessors, to
root out the whole nation of the native
Egyptians. All this people were called
Ayesos, or king Shepherds; Eye in the
sacred dialect signifying king, and sos,
common dialect, signifying pastor or
Shepherd. Some say they were Ara
bians a
These people, who were thus denomi-
mated the Shepherd kings, and their de-
cendants, retained possession of Egypt
during the period of five hundred and
eleven years"
The following extract from an article
in the Asatic Researches, by Capt. Will
ford, tends also to confirm the opinion that
the Shepherds who invaded Egypt, had
migrated from distant land of the east.
can ancient king Chautura Yana, pass
ed a hundred years in a cavern, Christina
gera, the Black Mountain, the banks of
the Cali; performing the most rigor-
Gus acts of devotion.
At length Vishna appeared to him, and
promised him that he should have son,
whom he was to name Zamovatso. This
prince succeeded his father; was warlike
and ambitious, yet wise and devout. He
prayed to Vishna, to enlarge his empire,
and the God granted his request. Hear
ing that Misra- -sthan, the land of Egypt
was governed by a powerful and unjust
king called Nirmaryada, he with chosen
army, invaded that country without hav-
ing previously made any declaration of
war, and began to administer just among
the people, and to give them specimen
of the blessings of a good king; and when
Nirmaryada sent to expostulate with him,
he treated his remonstrance with disdain.
This brought on a bloody battle of three
days, in which the Egyptian king was
killed. The conqueror, who fought like
another Para Rama, then took the pos
session of the kingdoms of Misra, and
governed it with perfect exquity. Babya-
Vatsa, his son, devoted himself to relig-
ion, and resigned his crown to his son
Ruema Vatsa, who tenderly loved his
people, and so highly improved his coun-
try that from his own just revenues, he
amassed an incredible treasure. His
wealth was SO great that he raised three
mountains, called Ruem adra, Rujat-adri,
and Rety -adri; or, the mountains of gold,
silver, and of gems. go, 49, b..
In this legend, says DR.. Hales, wetrace
the distorted features Of the Egyptian
account By an interchange of charac-
ters, Yamo is the Timoas, of Manetho, a
quiet and peaceable prince who was at
tackled without provocation, BY this Mir,
maryada, of the Cushite race, called Sa.
latis by Manetho, and silites by syncel-
lus. His son, Babyu, is evidently the
Beon of Manetho. The third king was
surnamed Ruchma, from his immense
wealth, which he collected by depressing
the Egyptians, though he tenderly loved
his own people, the Shepherds. Wishing
either to extirpate the natives, or to breal
down their spirits by hard and incessant
labors, he employed them in constructing
those stupendous monuments of ancient
ostentation and tyranny.
The Pyramids, which are evidently the
mountains indicated in the Hindoo records
were, it is presumed, originally cased will
yellow, white, or spotted marble, brought
from the quarries of Arabia.
Several of the famous thirty dynasties
of Egyptian kings were of this Shepherd
race. But it is perfectly demonstrable
that the old line of the sons of Miser, con
tinued to sustain succession of princes
at Thebes, still called No Anon. Here
then we have two cotemporaneous dynas
ties of two distinct races, all of whom thu
infdel writer's have counted in their lists
to swell the time of Egypt's glory, ane
desparage the word of the ever living
God. This fact must have been perfectly
well known to these writer's, yet they have
found it convenient for their argument OF
this point to remain silent. The Shep
herd race then were the builders of tn.
pyramids, at least the three larger ones
They seemed also to have introduced in
to Egypt the science Of emblems and 0
Astronomy, and improved systems of gov
ernment, so that the subjugated race, &C
quired some political knowledge and in
tellectual culture, from the presence Q
their oppressors.
1t was during this foreign dominion
that Abraham visited Egypt. Abraham
s.