The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1880-06-24
SCRIPTURE AND HISTORY.
Similarity Of The Accounts In the Old Tests.
sent 60 Otker Old Records.

According to Berosus 1.-THE most ancient known
Chaldaic historian), the world when fir,t created
was in darkness and consisted of n fiuid mass
inhabited by monsters of the stranrest forms
Over the whole dominated female power. call
ed Thalatth or Sea- Then BeIus. wishing n
carry on the creative work, cleft Thalatth in
twain; and Of the half of her he made the earth.
and of the other halfthe heaven Hereupon, the
monsters, who could not endure the air and the
light, persisted. Belus, upon this seeing that
the earth was desolate, yet teerning with proiue-
tive power, cut of his own head and miuyling
the blood which flowed forth, with the dust Of
the ground made man. who were thus inteIli-
gent, being partakers of the divine wisdom. He
then made other animals, fit 10 live ON earth he
also made the stars, and the sun and the moon.
and the five planets The first man was
Alorus, Chaldsean, who reigned over mankind
for thirty-six thousand years and begat A son.
Alaparus who reigned ten thousand eight hmm
,lred wears. Then followed in succession e;ght
Others, whose reipns were of canal or yrrafer
length ending with Xisuthrus under whom The
great ,.sluge took place. The leading facts Of
this cosmogony and antcdiluvisn history. are
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