Auriteans

Auriteans is the name given by the ancient writer Manetho to the first kings to rule over Egypt during the “reign of the gods”. R. Cedric Leonard comments on this on his website and in his books^{(a)[130][131].}

“Plato described Atlantis as being ruled by ten kings before its demise. Egyptian king-lists going back thousands of years before Plato (we will look at one example here) establish four important facts, which we note:

They are:

Egyptian tradition begins with the “reign of the gods”

In all there were ten of these so-called ‘god-kings‘

They were said to have reigned in a foreign country

From all appearances they were called ‘Atlanteans’

This last statement will be challenged by scholars, so let’s take a closer look at the Egyptian king-lists. One noticeable fact is that Manetho (250 BC) calls the first series of kings, who ruled during the “reign of the gods,” Auriteans. This seems to be nothing more than a corruption of the word ‘Atlantean.’ Let me explain.

Egyptian hieroglyphics only approximate real sounds: for instance, a hieroglyphic ‘k’ must be used to represent the hard ‘g’ sound. The hieroglyph that Manetho transcribed as ‘r’ can equally be transcribed as an ‘l’. Thus the ‘Auriteans’ of Manetho’s king-lists could just as well be ‘Auliteans’: phonetically almost identical to ‘Atlanteans.’ This idea obtains credible support from the fact that the ancient Phoenician historian Sanchuniathon (1193 BC) calls these very same kings ‘Aleteans‘ ^[0714](b). Isn’t it likely that Aleteans=Atlanteans?”

In spite of this valiant attempt to equate the Egyptian king lists with the kings of Atlantis, it must be pointed out that the ten Atlantean kings noted by Plato were brothers and so reigned concurrently over different part of the empire, whereas the king lists cited by Leonard relate to kings that reigned successively.

*^(a)  See: Archive 2055*