Aventinus 19

Johannes Turmayr's 1520 History of Bavaria, Chapter 19 - translated and annotated by Ras Feqade, AD 2020.

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## 19. Of the giants and great people, how agriculture and the schools or schrans were invented.

After Noah's death, the giants rose up everywhere, were big lazy, wild people, consoling their strength and size, pressed other people, forcibly according to their will, made other people along with roughly cheeky and willing, lay like the beasts in the big forests. Therefore (to keep the people in breeding and peaceful and to practice good things, which they do not idle, do not be lazy and want and thus perish like the beast, learn nothing, do nothing good), King **Sar** donates in the land formerly of the Rhine , as now is called the Rhine stream and France, common schooling, where the people should come under control, good manners, discipline and learning, also in other arts. And their name was Saro, after their current king, the sarannen, schrannen for short, and those who instructed the others, the sarannians or short schranner: these are the old proper German names, so that the school pupils and students are called; when schuel and schüeler are not German but Greek name, drawn from the word schola, which in Greek means must and incumbent. The Latins call it ludus and ludimagister, whom we are now called a schoolmaster, called schranner for short by the old saranners; Such students and studirn come from the Latin studere, that is Roman diligence. From the above-mentioned king, we still call them, because they give reign and take right, the sarans, for short the schrans, and a water in Lutring and Westerreich Sara.

[These giants also appear in various annals with the names gigantes, aborigines, Titans, Curetans, or Fomoire. They were descendants of Ham and his second wife, his sister Rhea daughter of Noah; as they were primitive and robust, it is quite possible that the remains known as Neanderthal represent their type.

Sar or Sarron followed after Magus in Samothea and ruled there from 2206-2146 BC. He was thus a contemporary of Mannus in Mannreich (Germany) who ruled 2248-2182 BC. Sarron in addition to founding a school at Toulouse and the stones at Stonehenge, is like his predecessors Samothes and Magus, associated with a class of Druids, the Sarronides.]

In Italy, King Sabatius, called Saturnus, invented plow sickle singe mule and pack ovens and other things more like that, which are part of the construction and the food production; the people had to work from him to sow, cut, thresh, paint, pach fur, pull animals, put imp, tidy tree gardens, learn to do white.

[This Sabatius or Saturnus is the same as Sebtah son of Kush previously encountered; Janus II had made Sebtah Duke of the Curetan-inhabited regions south of the Tiber which position he held from 2232 to 2211 BC, thus within the reign of Mannus. However, the invention of the plough is ascribed in Jubilees to Abraham himself at the age of 15 in 2172 BC; only hoes were used before that.]

Such is the case in the land of Egypt and neighboring countries of the king **Oriz** with his spouse, lady **Eisen**. And these two be the first farmers basins and millers, when the gentlemen needed something that they didn’t do anything else day and night, then that they thought and considered to find something new so that the common people would at least find it easier the people nerete least fit. That was a princely, honest thing back then. That is why also such princes, who are generally held in heaven, call for helpers in their needs for gods and great people. All gods and, as we call it now, all saints come here for help, who prove to people, as is the common saying and testifies: you don't believe in any saint, he'll do a sign.

[Oriz, also known as Osiris Apis and Mentuhotep, was the first son of Ham and Rhea, who married his sister Eisen or Isis, and was Pharaoh in Egypt several times in his extra-long life (being one of the *prisci*): 2263-2228 BC as Barsanos or Sa-Khety, 2224-2192 BC as Osiris Apis, 2113-2069 BC as Mentuhotep Nebhepetre, and finally 2001-1995 BC again as Mentuhotep Sankhkare, in addition to ruling several other countries in his intervening sojourns.]