Aventinus 38

Johannes Turmayr's 1520 History of Bavaria, Chapter 38, 39, 40 - translated and annotated by Ras Feqade, AD 2020.

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## 38. Of the King Sala and Shem, when they died.

In the fifteenth year of the above King Herman, King Sala died, who with King Tuitsch or Teutsch had moved from Armenia to the Nordgau; he lived 433 years. Afterwards, in the 21st year, Shem, also called Melchisedek, Noah's eldest son, died, as counted from the Deluge 502, from the beginning of the world 2160 years, he lived six hundred years.

[Salah, son of Cainan and father of Eber, was born in 2631 BC, migrated with Tuiscon to rule Pannonia in 2399 BC, and died there at the age of 433, in 2198 BC, or during the reign of Mannus, not Herman.

Shem son of Noah was born in 2856 BC, before the Deluge, he lived 600 years or until 2256 BC, well before this time. Some authors have identified Shem with Melchizedek, as here; more detailed accounts make Melchizedek the son of Malah, Malah being the brother of Salah and son of Cainan.]

## 39. Of King Bard, who reigned in France.

When King Herman ruled this side of the Rhine in Germania, King **Bard** was king beyond the Rhine in the land now called France. He established the arts of singing, wrote a large songbook, put on festivities and holidays, taught the people to dance, sing, jump, court; the people had to learn all sorts of songs and dances, the threader, fierldance and rides. Likewise did the mightiest king at Babylon, **Armamitres**, plow only the pleasure of what is gentle and pleasing to the body. It was like a noteworthy thing: beyond the Rhine one learned dancing and singing, service to jokes, curses and pastimes, on this side fighting and stabbing was seriously heard.

[Bardus I ruled in Samothea after Druis, from 2131 to 2068 BC, thus contemporary with Herman. The Babylonian Era of Armamitres in *Defloratio* seems to be 2069-2041 BC, 28 years rather than 38, where Armamitres elsewhere appears as Manitrus, a form of Manishtushu of Akkad, and the era seems to include his predecessors Sargon and Rimush as well.]

## 40. Of King Oryz in Egypt.

At these times Oryz reigned in Egypt (as I also mentioned above); he had many other names such as Osiris, Apis, Serapis. His housewife and sister was Lady Eisen; she also had many names, called Isis, Ceres, Juno in Latin, in Greek Io, Hera, Demetra. They had the vervain grain and wheat, among other things assigned, invented, taught to smith and make wagons, plows sickles, all the like all construction equipment, so such a necessity belongs; sowing agriculture, pushing, pulling animals, pulling wine wax is what people everywhere underwent. Before, the people scratched the soil with their hands and wood. In the holy scripture this Oryz is called Mizraim, and further from him Egypt is called Mizraim in the Jewish language and Bible.

[Oryz or Apis was the son of Ham by his second wife Rhea, whereas Mizraim had been born to Ham's first wife Naella. Apis' third reign in Egypt as Mentuhotep Nebhepetre from 2113 to 2069 BC was roughly contemporary with that of Herman. By this time ploughs, first invented by Abram in 2172 BC in Mesopotamia, were spreading across the Levant, where Apis and Isis adopted them and became leading proponents of their use.]