It makes for some good writing

You might be wondering why I'm posting things that seem like they'd take a lot of time and then concluding that I must not be very strapped lately. Well, I guess it's lightened a little, but I'm still pretty busy. Sometimes, too, I like to just relax with a little light reading--like Josephus. So, here're my latest ponderances.

According to the historian Josephus of two thousand years ago (wrote during the reign of Vespasien, Titus, and Domatian), Seth's descendants were "the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies, and their order. And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars; the one of brick, the other of stone:they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind; and also inform them that there was another pillar of brick erected by them. Now this remains in the land of Siriad to this day."

Modern day historians note that the pillars in the land of Siriad, or Seiris, were erected by a Seth (Sesotris) that was king of Egypt and not by the antediluvian (pre-flood) Seth. The general tradition, however, must be founded on something that was passed down, so the coincidence, although strong, might just be that. Maybe there were pillars standing in the Egyptian desert with inscriptions that aided in informing the Egyptian astronomers. Perhaps Sesotris rehabilitated the old pillars or erected new ones on the memory of what was once there. Egypt, after all, is of the most ancient among peoples. This is speculation, of course, and will take much more learning and research before I can say anything with confidence.

So, Seth and his descendants may very well have had ancient wisdom about the heavenly bodies and it is peculiar that, according to Josephus, they were concerned about preserving the knowledge of their "inventions". This seems to allude to the possibility that there might possibly have been inventions that dealt with the heavenly bodies. Perhaps it only means that there were sundials, telescopes, and star maps, but wouldn't it be great if it were space shuttles or star gates? That makes for some good writing.