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|EGYPTUS “Egypt,” the daughter of HAM and EGYPTUS (Book of Abraham 1:23,25)
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The etymology of Egyptus is from Babylonian syllabic cuneiform ''ḫikuptaḥ'' “Egypt” (Ugaritic ''ḥkpt''<ref>Ugaritic ''arṣ'' “land” at ''Baal Cycle'', tablet 3, VI:16 (''CAT'' 1.3).</ref>) from the Egyptian name for Memphis, the old capital of Egypt, ''Ḥwt-kЗ-Ptaḥ'' "House-of-the-Spirit-of-Ptah" (i.e., the Temple of Ptah) ➔ "Egypt/ Aegyptus/ Egyptus" (E-gy-pt; Coptic ''ekepta''), and Greek Αἴγυπτος in Homer as both Nile River and country,<ref>''Lexikon der Ägyptologie'', I:77, IV:25-26; Gardiner, ''Egypt of the Pharaohs: An Introduction'', 1-2; cf. Budge, ''Book of the Dead'' (1895/1967), 490; Rhodes, JSH-TYL, 5.</ref> and in Appollodorus (''Bibliotheca'', 2:1:4-5), as the eponymous son of Belus & Anchinoe, who first conquers Egypt. Variant ZEPTAH is clearly Egyptian ''ZЗt-Ptḥ'', ''SЗt-Ptḥ'', "Daughter-of-Ptah" (the -t- in ''SЗt'' is silent),<ref>Egyptian ''S(З.t)-ptḥ'' in Middle Kingdom (H. Ranke, ''Die ägyptischen Personennamen'' I.288.22); cf. Phoenician transcription as ספתח and Neo-Babylonian transcription I''si-ip-ta-ḫu'' (Vittmann, ''Göttinger Miszellen'' 70, p. 65), cited in Y. Muchiki, ''Egyptian Proper Names and Loanwords in North-West Semitic'', SBL dissertation series 173 (Atlanta: SBL, 1999), 29.</ref> as is Astarte the "Daughter of Ptah" in the Late Egyptian Hieratic story of "Astarte and the Sea"<ref>"Astarte and Yam" in the ''Papyrus Amherst'' in Pritchard, ed., ''ANET'', 3rd ed., 17-18; Gardiner, ''Late-Egyptian Stories'', 76-81; Gardiner, "The Astarte Papyrus," in ''Studies Presented to F. Ll. Griffith'', 74-85; ''Lexikon der Ägyptologie'', I:500-510. Albright showed how Astarte is the same as Atargatis-Cybele, ''Qudshu'', ''Baˁalat'', Juno, Virgo, etc., ''Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan'', chapter III; see also C. H. Gordon in ''Encyclopaedia Britannica'', 15th ed., 24:91-127; and A. R. Durham, “Zeptah-Egyptus,” Sept 1958 in Christensen, ed., ''Papers of the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on the Archaeology of the Scriptures'', 12-16.</ref> (which may be later reflected in the name of the Babylonian or Jewish Sibyl Sambethe/ Sambathis, the daughter or dau-in-law of Noah, who also came to Egypt after the Flood<ref>H. C. Youtie, "Sambathis," ''Harvard Theological Review'', 37:213-217; Cf. Charlesworth, ''OTP'', I:318, citing Rosenstiehl & Heinz, "De Sibtu, la reine de Mari, à Sambethe," ''Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuse'', 52 (1972), 13-15; ''Sibylline Oracles'', Prologue:33; I:289, III:809,823-827 (J. Charlesworth, ''OTP'', I:317-318, 327, 341, 380; R.H. Charles, ''APOT'', II:392-393), from the oldest and most certainly Jewish section of OrSib.</ref>). For vocalization of Zeptah/ Egyptus, compare Coptic ''ekepta'', ''Ptaḥ'', and Greek φθᾶ.<ref>Budge, ''Book of the Dead'',  490; Mercer, ''Pyramid Texts'', IV:204.</ref>  She is the equivalent of Hathor (Egyptian ''Ḥt-Ḥr'' "House-of-Horus [Sky]"), also the daughter of Ptah,<ref>''Lexikon der Ägyptologie'', IV:32, citing H. S. Smith, ''A Visit to Ancient Egypt'' (Warminster, 1974), p. 11 and n. 44.</ref> who is the same constellation as Virgo, which is the first month of the Inundation season (on the Palermo Stone, each king is accompanied by his mother's name and by the measured height of the inundation in September,<ref>Gardiner, ''Egypt of the Pharaohs'', 28, 62-64.</ref>).  For, "when this woman discovered the land it was under water" (Abr 1:24).  Hathor is the Eye and Mother of Reˁ, the first king of Egypt (1:25; ''Book of the Divine Cow''), that first king being otherwise known as “Hermes Triplex” in the ''Corpus Hermeticum'', i.e., the first king of Egypt after the Flood<ref>F. Yates, ''Giordano Bruno'', 48-49, citing L. Thorndike, ''History of Magic and Experimental Science'', II:215,222.</ref> (Abr 1:23-25).

MSS variants Egyptes, Zeptah, Zep-tah

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