Aventinus 41

Johannes Turmayr's 1520 History of Bavaria, Chapter 41, 42 - translated and annotated by Ras Feqade, AD 2020.

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## 41. Of the sixth king in Germany with the name Mers, how the above mentioned hero, King Oryz came to him.

After the Emperor Herman, the German lands were under the submission and administration of his son, King **Mers**, for 46 years. Mersburg in Meixen is said to have got the name from him and quite a few old Germans, called Mersinger, who came to Behamerwald before. The same Mersers have been sitting in the country as we now call Saxony. Their king Malwend became Roman, because the Germans defeated the mightiest of all emperors, Augustus, and drove them across the Rhine in all German lands (as I describe in the other book afterwards) at the time when Christ the Lord was born.

[Marsus ruled Germany from Marsberg from 2057 to 2011 BC, 46 years as in both the German and Latin editions, and Anderson.]

## 42. Of the second large flood.

At this time was the other big water two months, it noticeably spoiled the land and caused great damage. The Greeks call it ogyges, flood, from their king **Ogyges**, who was then ruler of Greece, where the most famous place and college of ancient times, Athens, is located.

[The Ogygean Flood struck Attica, ruled then by Ogyges, in 2051 BC.]

Also in the regime of this our king Mers were still (as I have now said several times) in many lands warriors and giants, roughly big wild people like the unreasonable beasts, wolves and bears, exercised much force with country and people. Then several fled, the others sent their messages and called for help Oryz, who held court in Egypt and at that time the most powerful and just prince was beloved and highly praised by everyone, who has proven a lot of good to all lands and people, he and his spouse Eisen, by sowing the grain, grapes, wheat, vervain, sowing the fields, threshing, painting, paching fur, moving mows, snowing, squeezing the grapes, and all the necessary things to do, plowing the sickle wagons, plowing horses and oxen in them, spinning weaving and much more like that, and taught many. Since now the above complaint of both country and people, King Oryz, as a benevolent father and father, set out from Egypt with large people and many captains, who were good warriors and honestly notvest respectable people, to go to the giants and fight; everywhere he taught the people what he had invented through his reason.

Moving on across the sea to Greece, he set his son by the name of **Macedon** (is a wolf with us) as a noble in the same area, called Macedonia after him, that before (as reported above) was called Emathia: He proceeded farther afterwards with the other son, called Anubis (is in our language dog, the animal was his coat of arms and banner), many in the country where Constantinople is now located, he slayed the great warrior Lycurgus, gave the country a very old captain, called **Maro**, who led from there to Damascus in Syria, then back to the Danube, where it loses its place and falls into the Black Sea in seven places. Since he also wanted to know where such a large water (which is the largest in Europe and similar to greatest river in Egypt, the Nile) originates, he also wanted to see land and people in Germany, show them what is used for food, also dismiss unjust violence.

[Apis left Egypt in the hands of Antef (Typhon) I in 2069 BC and set off again with his entourage to teach plowing, etc, abroad, first picking up the Muses and Satyrs in Kush. They reached Greece, where Apis was made king by the inhabitants, in 2051 BC, the same time as the Ogygean flood. Lycurgus was slain in 2049 BC, and from 2026 until 2011 BC Apis and Isis were on the upper Danube, teaching the Germans.]

So he moved up towards the falls of the Danube as far as the duchy of Austria and Bavaria, as it is now called; at that time these countries had different names. The first king in this land was still alive, Eber, who came to this area with the Emperor Tuitscho or Teutsch, had now lived 464 years; he thereupon died, as he received this hero and guest, king Oryz, with great honors, as one counts from the beginning of the world 2200 years. Ebrau is still a common name with us, from which places and cities, animals and people have their names. Ebersau is one of the largest cities in Germany among the old; it is (as Ptolemy indicated) located around the river where now Stain and Chrems are in Austria.

[Jubilees says Eber was born in AM 1503, that is 2560 BC; he lived 464 years according to Hebrew Genesis also; however if he died in 2026 BC he was 534.]

King Oryz placed his captain, by the name of **Taur**, in this land from whom the mountains still get the name. Back then it was a vastly respectable thing for princes and lords to travel such long distances, to see a lot, to show a lot of good to the people, how they still do this custom according to our mighty lords and princes, to go to the holy grave. Therefore, because of their goodness, which they showed the common man, men called them heroes in times past, gods after death. Wherever they put the coffin and stooped, they name the päch villages after them. This opinion should also (as I have reported, Chunradus Celtis and Johannes Stabius, resident imperial majesty poet and historian) Aba, previously a city, now a castle and market, the Abenst the river, likewise the villages around Oryzpach, Apisdorf, the city of Abesberg received their names back then from this king and hero Oryz, also called Apis or Abis.

Emperor Maximilian, highly praiseworthy memory, also brought his slaughter from this king and hero, and had him painted like a peasant with a plow. I also found in Passau in the cathedral monastery book chamber that the Bavarians were from this king Oryz in this way: king Norein and his brother Baier (from whom the Bavarians came) would be his descendants.

This king Apis or Oryz then moved up the Danube until it rises. Our king Mers received him warmly, learned from him and his housewife, by name Eisen, spices and their strength, beer made from barley boilers and more like that, which have special strength. There are still a few herbs from this queen called vervain, eisenkraut. Italy then sent a message to King Oriz, pleading with him that he would do as he wished and that he would save them them from the wild giants' cruel shock. He did that, moved to Italy, killed the giants, helped the people, stayed there for ten years, taught the people the law and other things more, that serves food, peace and wellbeing. He left the land to his kinsman, by name **Lestrigon**, returned to Egypt, had a great memorial stone set in eternal memory, in which his deeds and journeys were cut, as back then the heroes princes and lords needed something; in it, too, was read how it was in Germany and the origin of the Danube, as such a copy of the columns is still present in Diodorus Siculus in the first book. So diligently the ancients inscribed their thing for the good of posterity: we are now almost ashamed of it, because we do not do much good that one would like to write about, his common money fool.

[In 2011 BC Apis went to Italy, defeated the three Palensan tyrants, who were Curetans or 'giants', and ruled there ten years, to 2001 BC, then left Italy in the hands of Lestrigon, son of his son Neptune and brother of Albion, and returned to Egypt. This was now in the reign of Gamber in Germany, after Marsus.]

But I come back to king Oryz, against whom at that time all giants were making, as they were in other countries, an alliance covenant with the warrior, called Typhon, who was the biological brother of this hero Oryz, with not less than 26 giants who were allied with him. Unwarned, he actually murdered his brother, King Oryz in Egypt, tore him into pieces, a piece was given to each ally and kept it; the giants were so wild and rough. But the murder didn’t last long unavenged.

[Apis returned once more to Egypt in 2001 BC and resumed the rule, as Mentuhotep Sankhkare, from his regent Typhon or Antef III, not his actual brother, until 1995 BC, when Antef, conspiring with the Curetans, killed him. Lestrigon in Italy was one of those who joined the Curetan alliance against his grandfather and former lord.]

Lady Eisen, King Oryz' sister and spouse, together with their sons, with the names Orus, Thot, Lybis (who from the Romans became Sol, Mercurius Hercules, from the Greeks Apollo, Hermes, Heracles) seized the whole country of Egypt, slew all the above named murderers, had their landlord look for and bring the pieces to the city, now Alkeier that was called Memphis at the time, donated a large tomb in the city, put her brother and husband, king Apis or Oryz to rest in heaven, called him a god. And that such the tomb lords imagined the people, they gave in freedom that they should be free from all things, road tax, guards, communal work, and other things like that. He also consecrated a holy ox, called Serapis, who was called the holy ox, had to get into the bullfinches, when he died consecrate another to an eternal memory of goodness, so humanly that the whole world has received from the above mentioned king Oryz. That is why the Jews in the desert also wanted to honor this figure's god with a molten ox. The queen also mentioned, so that the priests would be at least more diligent in making a god out of their man, she gave all the land in the third part, so that they would also be obliged to announce and wait for god service and learning, which they also diligently did: the seven free arts, all philosophy and theology and, in short, all art invented and learned by other people, as far and wide as they moved from all over the world. Anyone who did not move to Egypt was not considered to have learned, as Aristotle and others mentioned, and Moses with very short words (as his custom).

[Osiris, Isis, Anubis, Horus, Thoth etc. were originally figures who had lived, and been deified, before the Deluge. The first Osiris was none other than the biblical Cain himself. After the Deluge, these pagan names made a comeback, especially with Pharaoh Apis Mentuhotep, who claimed to be the embodiment of the deity Osiris. As a son of Ham and Rhea, he was able to outlive most of his contemporaries, ruling Egypt under several names, and living to the age of 278 until he was assassinated in 1995 BC. His tomb may be found today, in Thebes, not Memphis.]

The common people, the whole world believed that this king Oryz was a god and a great special helper, because he had done and shown so much in his life that he has helped faithfully: that he could come here now, as he was now immortal, do a lot. That is why he had many costly churches and monasteries with the ancients all over the world, up to four hundred years after the birth of Christ, only in the time of St. Jerome his cathedral in Alkeier was torn apart.

His son **Libis**, whom the Bible calls Lehabim, and the Greeks the Egyptian Hercules, ruled after him in Egypt; his name in the Egyptian language is because he had a lion skin on; like our princes now wolf pelts. One calls him for two countries the Egyptian and Hispanic Hercules, because he was born in the first and died in the other. This pharaoh (so the Egyptians then called their king, as they are now commonly called the sultan), made Joseph a ruler in Egypt because of his wisdom; the huge city keeper all over the country for eighty years. But now I want to say more about him and his father Jacob.

[Libis, aka Hercules Libycus and Mentuhotep Nebtawyre, was the son of Apis who avenged him and drove out all the Curetans across the Mediterranean. He left Egypt in the hands of Amenemhet I, and was finally buried in Tarragona Spain in 1921 BC. He was not the Pharaoh who made Joseph Prime Minister of Egypt; that was Senusret II in 1899 BC.]