The Colossi of Memnon
Decoded
If like me you want to get to the bottom of our world history the first thing you have to do is forget everything you were taught at school. Don’t get me wrong some of the things we learned will probably come in handy one day, like the alphabet for instance but ancient history, not so much. One alarming example of this is the statue featured above known universally as “The Colossi of Memnon, who scholars insist is really Pharoah Amenhotep III.
Even though the statues contain 107 Roman era inscriptions in both Greek and Latin, dated to between AD 20 and 250; many of these inscriptions on the northern most statue make reference to the Greek mythological king Memnon, the statue was then-erroneously thought to represent according to modern scholars.
Officially
The Colossi of Memnon are a pair of giant statues made of stone that are located in the Theban necropolis in Luxor, Upper Egypt. The statues were supposedly made during the 14th century BC, during the period in ancient Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom. The best-known legend about the Colossi of Memnon is that of the ‘Vocal Memnon,’ in which one of the statues was reputed to ‘sing’ every morning at dawn.
We are taught that The Colossi of Memnon were built during the reign of Amenhotep III, a pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty who ruled Egypt during the 14th century BC. The statues, which are each about 20 meters (65.62 ft.) in height, are made of quartzite sandstone. The stone is thought to have been quarried either from El-Gabal el-Ahmar (near Cairo) or from Gebel el-Silsileh (near Aswan) and then transported by land to Luxor. The statues depict Amenhotep III in a seated position, with their hands resting on their knees, and their faces facing the Nile in the east. (see ancient origins dot net)
Ancient Version
Everything we think we know about the Egyptian Kings came from a priest named Manetho who was commissioned to investigate old records concerning the kings of the country by Philadelphus. He authored the Aegyptiaca (History of Egypt) in Greek that scholars continue to argue about to this day, through the surviving works of Josephus, Africanus and Eusebius.
In the third century BC, an Egyptian priest named Manetho wrote, in Greek, a history of his native country. Although no copies of his original manuscript have yet been found, redacted portions have been preserved in the writings of Josephus, Africanus and Eusebius. These preservations, which focus primarily on Manetho’s chronology of Egyptian dynasties, contain numerous inconsistencies and present many problems but they have served as the basis for our present arrangement of pre-Alexandrian Egyptian history as a succession of thirty or thirty-one dynasties. Much of the writing about Egyptian chronology attempts to either reconcile or reject Manetho’s history with respect to archaeological records. (Gary Greenburg)
Modern scholars as we mentioned make Memnon, the famous combatant of the Trojan War a mythological Greek God. These God’s are the same figures that we have become accustomed to knowing as Zeus or Apollo for example, who pull the strings behind the scenes in Homer’s classic ‘The Iliad.’ The problem as usual with ancient literature is that the Iliad is littered with corruption from start to finish. In the beginning of his work on the Aegyptiaca Manetho lists a dynasty of Gods that reigned before the flood that started with Vulcan. He was believed to have ruled in the country for 750 years followed by his son Helios who reigned a further 87 and 1/2 years. We also have the testimony of Eusebius and Africanus who says that Memnon, whose colossal statue uttered musical sounds was a king of Egypt. While Strabo states it to be the prevailing opinion, that the Egyptians called Memnon, who was at the siege of Troy Ismandes, who we know today as Osymandias king of kings.
The Statue
The Colossi of Memnon are reported as two 3400-year-old twin statues located in Luxor Egypt who the whole of antiquity referred to constantly as being represented by Memnon. This identification R Drew Griffin argued was entirely due to the fact that the northern most statue faces sunrise on the winter solstice and so was linked to dawn or Memnon’s mother. The twin statues of Amenhotep (really Memnon) are in a seated position gazing eastwards (sunrise) with their hands resting on their knees. They are constructed from a single piece of quartzite sandstone that were quarried from nearly 700 kilometres away. Each statue weighed in at around 720 tons each convincing Egyptologists that these monoliths did not travel via the Nile. Standing at 18 metres high or 60 feet the statues are visible from an incredible 10 miles away.
Today our modern civilization has no connection with these colossi, we have no clue how they were carved, and certainly absolutely no clue how they were transported. The truth is we have not got the technical ability that is required to accomplish the feats we can observe, that were achieved by our ancestors. The two statues denote yet another mystery that our ancestors are challenging us to explain presumably without the use of technology.
Memnon.
The general story concerning Memon who scholars believe is a myth is very easy to unravel when you understand what our ancestors are transmitting. But first you have to understand the language that they are employing as a tool to communicate with posterity, which is fourfold. Number one you have to identify the language that the ancients called ‘The Language of the Gods.’ Then you have to understand the clue that specifically informs you where the language exists. For example you are reading the bible and suddenly the clue jumps out of the text to reveal you are reading a passage that contains hidden information. Number three you have to be able to decipher that specific passage perfectly. Then lastly you have to be able to back engineer the source from where the language originated to identify the creator.
Tithonus was supposedly a half brother to king Priam, he had engaged the affections of Aurora (Dawn) and by her he had become the father of Memnon. Aurora conferred on him (Tithonus) the gift of immortality, but unluckily for him, she had forgotten to render her gift really valuable by exempting him from the infirmities of old age. The consequence was, that he experienced all the inconveniences of Swift’s immortals of Laputa, without the possibility of being released from them by the friendly hand of death. At length Aurora, pitying his deplorable situation, changed him into a grasshopper.
If we examine the above paragraph a little more closely, we can identify a corrupt version of the language I mentioned earlier. We can see the clue that jumps right out of the text before our eyes, that shows us that there is information contained within it. Unfortunately, the commentary comes from a modern author who is narrating over the top of the verse, rendering it for the most part undecipherable. However, what we can do is understand who the characters are and from what era they belong almost to the exact year. Which proves that the person the statue represents is Memnon. For paid subscribers we will investigate this further and reveal our initial findings below.
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Mythological details
According to Greek mythology Tithonus was the lover of Eos (Aurora) goddess of Dawn. Eos is said to have taken Tithonus from the royal house of Troy to be her lover. The myth of Eos and Tithonus' love was known to Homer, who wrote that in the morning Eos rose from the bed she shared with Tithonus in order to give her light to mankind.
The myth of the goddess' mortal lover is an archaic one; when a role for Zeus was inserted, a bitter twist appeared: according to the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, when Eos asked Zeus to make Tithonus immortal, she forgot to ask that he be granted eternal youth. Tithonus indeed lived forever.
but when loathsome old age pressed full upon him, and he could not move nor lift his limbs, this seemed to her in her heart the best counsel: she laid him in a room and put to the shining doors. There he babbles endlessly, and no more has strength at all, such as once he had in his supple limbs.
Eventually out of pity Eos turned him into a cicada (grasshopper).
Earlier in this report we mentioned how a musical sound could be heard emanating from seat of the statue precisely at dawn. The earliest recorded in literature is that of Greek historian and geographer Strabo who claims to have heard the sound during a visit in 20 BCE, by which time it apparently was already well known. The description of the sound varied; Strabo said it sounded “like a blow.” Pausanias compared it to the sound of a lyre breaking, but it was also described as the striking of brass or whistling. The point is the vast majority of the reports recorded was that the statue was emitting a type of musical sound at the break of dawn.
To be honest I was on the point of throwing in the towel concerning this myth, when out of the blue as so often happens in this line of work I saw this sentence, from wiki. ‘In fact the ancient Greeks would use a cicada sitting on a harp as an emblem of music.’
Once I saw that, the connection was obvious, even if its not so obvious today in our modern world you have to remember to think light years outside your normal range to accommodate. If we imagine that the people who constructed the statue had cleverly introduced a musical sound to emit from it at a certain time (dawn) every day. Then that particular monument would stand out easily from others of its type simply by adding a description of the novel sound it produces each morning. Once you understand that, all we need to do is refer back to the other fragments of the myth. Aurora or Eos asked Zeus to make Tithonus immortal. What better way do we know to immortalise someone than building them a monument out of stone, or if we like a statue?
Described perfectly by Tithonus limbs that once immortalised he could no longer move.
We can add to that the link that the Greeks used a cicada as an emblem sitting on a harp, then it is not a great stretch that the musical sound that emanated from the statue at dawn (Eos or Aurora) was generated by the harp.
That means that the myth is informing us that the statue represents not Amenhotep III or Memnon but Tithonus, the supposed lover of Aurora.
But that is the way this language works, because basically the myth can only be read one way, and the only way to extract the information is by being totally honest. But oftentimes there are details that can escape your notice, that are booby traps for the misinformed.
Other details in this myth implies that Eos the Titan goddess of dawn had kidnapped Tithonus as well as Ganymede in order to make them her lovers. This element shows us that it is the work of an imposter, and the real narrative is that Aurora was really kidnapped by Tithonus, who fled with her into Egypt before the statue was built. Everything about this myth informs us about the statue and its no coincidence that the name of the heroine is Eos (or Dawn) the time at which the musical sound can be heard. All of these details perfectly fit the statues that still stand in Egypt to this day as a testament to immortality and pointing to the only man in history that they can possibly represent.
Memnon.