Aventinus 15

Johannes Turmayr's 1520 History of Bavaria, Chapters 15 and 16 - translated and annotated by Ras Feqade, AD 2020.

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## 15. How this King Tuitsch having died, was canonized and set in Heaven by his people.

### Summary

 [In this chapter, Aventinus relates that Tuiscon lived to be over 200, being one of the *prisci* or first generations after Noah, and that he ruled the Germans 176 years, until the 307th year after the Deluge, then he was buried in a sacred grove near modern Doesburg, Netherlands, and deified, along with his mother Nerth, who was conflated also with the Earthly Mother into a goddess, and is described as in Tacitus, who calls her Nerthus.

In fact Tuiscon ruled until 2248 BC, or the 507th year after the Deluge, ruling a total of 151 years, in agreement with *Defloratio*. The figure of 176 years miscounts from the fall of the tower. Since his constitution of 2302 BC had called for strict monotheism, his passing in 2248 BC marked a departure from that and the beginning of pagan polytheism. If Nerth was his mother and he was Askenaz, she must have been the wife of Gomer.

In his later *German Chronicle*, Aventinus computes the date of Tuiscon's death to 2037 BC, but this is too late, not taking into account the gap of over 200 years in the *Supplement* to *Defloratio*. He also ascribes Tuiscon an additional 60 years before the tower, giving him a total reign of 236 years, but this seems to be based on a misunderstanding. Anderson also gives him 176 years, 2142-1966 BC according to him.]

## 16. Of king Mann, son of the aforementioned king Tuitsch or Teutsch, the second Emperor in Germany, he is the German Jupiter.

King Tuitscho or Teutsch (so that I return to the history) was succeeded in the regime by his son, Mann, called **Mannus** in Latin; he was worldly and ruling lord over all things, lands and people 72 years. After him we were called the Manni and the German land Mannreich. Our ancestors put him in Heaven like his father because of his manhood, made him a god and raised him up for an especially great helper, who has done a lot of good things for the land and people in his life. Wherever they were in need and their devotion, they called him, after him they called the night luminary moon and the second day Monday; nothing was raised in a meeting neither in peace nor when it has become new or full, so their matters count according to the night and not according to the days (as we do now); they said the night came before, the day after.

In the same way they described his wife, Frau Sonn, in the number of the immortal gods, that she is a queen of heaven, after her are named the day luminary and the first day, set over common sickness and childbirth; nobody could say, she went under, they had to speak, she went to rest, as the common people now think that story.

[Mannus ruled Germany as Mannreich from 2248 until ca. 2182 BC, or around 66 years, as in Aventinus' Latin translation (his later German Chronicle says 82 years), after which he and his queen Sonn were also deified, and made days of the week to this day. Anderson also says he reigned 66 years, 1966-1900 BC in his computation.]