The Twitter Herodotus

2.141 Sethos came next. During his reign the Arabians and Assyrians attacked. They were defeated by mice, who ate their weapons and shields.

2.142 From the 1st king to Sethos was 11,340 yrs during which time the sun rose & set backwards 4 times & nothing changed for the Egyptians.

2.143 Each Egyptian high priest sets up an image of himself in Thebes. I was shown 345 images. The priesthood passes from father to son.

2.144 These rulers were men, but before them gods ruled Egypt. The last god to rule was Horus (our Apollo), the son of Osiris (Dionysus).

2.145 Pan is the oldest Egyptian god. Dionysus is younger, but still 15,000 yrs before Amasis. But our Dionysus was 1600 yrs before my time.

2.146 It's clear that the Greeks learned of Pan & Dionysus after they'd learned of the other gods, and gave that date as their birthdates.

2.147 After Sethos the Egyptians divided Egypt into 12 provinces & set up 12 kings who were to be allies, bound by marriage alliances.

2.148 These 12 made a labyrinth as a memorial. I've seen it: it surpasses the pyramids & all the Greeks' buildings combined in magnificence.

2.149 Even more impressive is the man-made Lake Moeris, 420 miles in perimeter. Its water comes from the Nile. There are two pyramids in it.

2.150 The soil that was dug up when the lake was dug was dumped in the Nile & thus carried away. (I asked, as I hadn't seen it mounded up.)