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C<\/strong>ecrops<\/strong> (Kekrops) was, according to tradition, reputed to have been the first king of Athens and is the earliest Athenian name referred\"Cecrops\"<\/a> to by Plato along with Erechtheus, Erichthonius and Erisichthon (Crit.110a<\/a>). There was an early belief that Cecrops was originally a native of Sa\u00efs<\/a>, in Egypt, who emigrated to Greece, where he founded Athens. However, this claim was disputed, even in ancient times(a)<\/sup>. This, if true, conflicts with Plato, who states (Tim.23e<\/a>) that Sa\u00efs was founded after<\/em><\/strong> Athens, not the other way around.!<\/p>\n

One site has suggested that Cecrops and Moses had a lot in common. “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? After even a cursory examination of the two, it is hard to deny that the founding \u201cmyths\u201d of Athens share many curious and intricate coincidences with Jewish history and the symbolism of Jerusalem. For as the founding myth of Athens goes, Cecrops (herein presented as the Athenian version of Moses) led the Athenians up out of the land of Egypt.”<\/em> (d)<\/sup><\/p>\n

Cecrops is usually depicted as a man with a serpent’s tail, without any clear reason, which for me, is vaguely reminiscent of Oannes, in Mesopotamian mythology, who had a man’s head with the body of a fish!<\/p>\n

Eusebius of Caesarea placed Cecrop’s reign between 1556 and 1506 BC, which, if verifiable would provide a possible \u2018anchor\u2019 for arriving at a credible date for the destruction of Atlantis.<\/p>\n

Wikipedia offers a list of the early kings of Athens which includes two monarchs named Cecrops, the first who is dated according to Eusebius\u2019 calculation, and the second, Cecrops II, who supposedly reigned from 1347 BC until 1307 BC!(c)<\/sup><\/p>\n

The existence of Cecrops as a real person who reigned over Athens during the 2nd millennium BC, is given further support by the Parian Marble.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

None of these earliest kings reigned before the middle of the second millennium BC, which would seem to argue against Atlantis attacking Athens eight millennia earlier, long before the city even existed or had a ruler.<\/p>\n

Atlantisforschung offers a more extensive article about Cecrops(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cecrops_I<\/a><\/p>\n

(b) <\/sup>Kekrops I. \u2013 Atlantisforschung.de (atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog)<\/a><\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_kings_of_Athens<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(d)<\/sup> https:\/\/mosesegyptianised.wordpress.com\/2018\/11\/22\/moses-and-cecrops\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cecrops (Kekrops) was, according to tradition, reputed to have been the first king of Athens and is the earliest Athenian name referred to by Plato along with Erechtheus, Erichthonius and Erisichthon (Crit.110a). There was an early belief that Cecrops was originally a native of Sa\u00efs, in Egypt, who emigrated to Greece, where he founded Athens. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[207,2114,1877,1979,2113,5189,3617,6088,1038,990],"class_list":["post-2980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cecrops","tag-critias-110a","tag-erechtheus","tag-erichthonius","tag-erisichthon","tag-eusebius-of-caearea","tag-moses","tag-oannes","tag-parian-marble","tag-sais"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65983,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions\/65983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}