Amenmesses
He became Pharaoh after Merneptah in 1204 BCE. Little is known of this man. Takhat his mother is also a mystery. Be it only by good fortune he appears on the scene and was present at Mermeptah’s death. He took responsibility for Merneptah’s burial. By the rules of succession he then became the next pharaoh and he lasted the next four years. After his death, Merneptah’s son, Sethy became Pharaoh.

Boomerang
The oldest known boomerangs have been found in northern Europe. The Egyptians had a great appreciation of boomerangs. They were buried in tombs for use in the after life. The boomerangs found in Tutankhamun’s tomb were measured and models tested by Jacques Thomas, Expert es boomerang, 24, rue Tronchet 69006 Lyone France. “Most of the facsimiles turned out to be able to fly high and pretty far before returning close to the thrower. With a tight flight-path, a fast flight and a strong hitting power, they were certainly used for fowling.” Their use was often depicted in mortuary chapels, e.g. of Amenemhat and Nekht.

Dedi
The legendary hero of a quest for the tree of Isis, who lived to be one hundred and ten years old. His father, of a descending lineage of chief builders and high priests including Ham, Cush, Jokshan, Dedan, and the pharaoh Seneferu. His family controlled tax free land at Dedsneferu where the venerable magician, Dedi spent the last eighty years of his life practicing politics, future seeing, healing arts, teaching and telling stories. His ancestors were for many generations of the most powerful priest class privileged to the most ancient wisdom of Throth (the mind of god). As a ‘spirit-master’, he appears in many tales liaising between Pharaoh and the gods, including: ‘The Epic Journey Of The Scribe’s Scroll’ and ‘The Prophecy of Dedi’ and in the ‘Westcar Papyrus’ which is kept at the Berlin Museum.

Dje Efferu Dje
He was named after his great uncle, a keeper of the mint for queen Hetshepsut. He was born brought up aboard his father’s trading vessels. He was gifted with language and ‘hereditary’ book keeping skills. He was also related to the architect Anini, a builder’s son, with whom he exchanged jokes about the ridiculousness of the pyramids. E.g. where is the last place an Egyptian would want to be buried? In a pyramid. As this tale is told, Dje stayed behind to live near the library at Gujarata, where he was valued for his language skills. He eventually took over running the university, and fled with his wife, Arismaina and their two children when the Aryans took over their coastal valley nestled on the Indian Ocean. The citadel and its culture were sacked. The university built on the ziggurat and all it contained was destroyed by fire. His children safely grown and established in a mountain village and after Arismaina had passed away, Dje left without his wealth and without family to wonder about the country side carrying an empty bowl and preaching the wisdom he had learned. A novel: “An Original Sage”

Dr. Peter Bell (Doctor of Philosophy)
There is no such person in real life. He is as per one who was born in New York, 24 August,1913. Educated in ancient languages and the classics at Radcliffe College, Harvard and or Oxford. Master of textural scholarship and debate. He pursued of a career lecturing at prestigious institutions and publishing in the field of Oriental Studies.

Exodus
There is little mention of the Exodus by ancient Egyptians. It appears to have been an oral tradition among Semitic tribes until four hundred years after the event, with the Hebrews establishing their own historical agenda and embellishment, which has become a major mytho-poetic event also adopted by Christians and Moslems. The majority of what has been written about it has been written during the last two centuries. Of course this migration of specific Semitic tribes remains somewhere between history, myth and a Hollywood movie. Exodus is perpetuated today, as both a prime moment in the foundations of at least three major religions and as a secular event studied through anthropology, psychology and sociology. Exodus remains a documented event and a fabulous story from our mytho-poetic past, with countless books, versions and opinions on the subject.

Gujarata
An imaginary city representing another stepping stone back to our past. Eventually the barbaric Aryans conquered the length and breadth of India. Mohenjo Daro, Harappa and Lothal are examples of spectacular cities and a civilisation they wiped out. Cities that could only be called modern. The uniformity of their brick work, town planning, water supply and sewerage systems dating back to the seventh millennium BCE., are not surpassed by industrial era Europe until two centuries ago. Not even the Romans were their match. This civilization carried out extensive trade in the Indian Ocean and throughout the Arabian Sea (Persian Gulf).

Pacificus, Atlantus, Indius:
There are two basic categories for theories on origins of civilisation. One says all civilisations evolved independently without contact or influence from others. This theory assumes the nature of our ancestors to have been sedentary and to have stayed in their places and invented their civilisations independently. The other recounts evidence of a contact medium between ancient civilisations. It assumes colonisation, that ancient humans were travellers (like us) and adventurers and that the evangelistic spirit of modern men has existed from the dawn of civilisation. The isolationists have the answers and disregard the messy evidence supporting importation of what we call civilisation. The burden of proof seems to be with the diffusionists. Evidence grows in the diffusionists favour but they cannot get past the stepping stones buried by the flooding (one hundred and fifty metre rise in sea level) caused by melting glaciers at the end of the last ‘ice age’. At worst the answers may lie a hundred metres below sea level never to be found, that is unless the great flood subsides which means we are having another ‘ice age’. This then securely entrenches the pat answers of the isolationists. This means the origins of civilisation and most of human history might forever remain a great mystery for mankind. For academics of the day, it was just bad luck Heinrich Schliemann used Homer’s ‘Iliad’ and found Troy to be more than myth. Fortunately for academics, the Atlantis of Plato’s ‘Timaeus’ and Critias’ and as well the myth of the ‘Cabiri’ invasion is safely covered by one of the world’s deepest oceans, the Atlantic (name sake ‘Atlantis’) ocean.

Ha Biru
The ancient name used by the Egyptians, (also, Mizram) for tribes of Semitic people living in Egypt. Some experts feel this name developed into the collective name Hebrew. The actual Egyptian is A-Pi-ru or Apiru. Ha Biru was also used as a general term referring to other related Semitic tribes who warred against Egypt for a thousand years. At the time of ‘The Scribe’s Scroll’ they were known for colourful, though usually dusty, clothes and lived by tending flocks and trading with donkey caravans. They inhabited, wandered, and settled throughout Egypt, Canaan, Siani, Palistine, Phonicia, the Negev Desert, Msopotamia and Southern Syria.

Herodotus
A Greek historian who lived B.C.D. 485 to 425. When he visited Memphis, a group of Egyptian priests had overcome their fear of bringing to life some of the old gods and had completed investigations of ancient sacred libraries. They boasted the reading of many old papyrus’s, such as ‘Book of the House of Osiris, Lord of Abydos’. Thanks to this activity, the priests were able to give Herodotus many stories and details of their history. He translated all his acquired knowledge about ancient Egypt into Greek. Through his efforts, many stories and religious documents have made it to present time. However, he was a ‘popular’ historian and it is known that he amplified and embellished to make for an entertaining description or story telling. (Some things never change.) An Egyptian priest-historian Manetho criticised the ignorance of Herodotus and claimed his stories were only for Greek tourists. He has also been referred to as ‘father of lies.’ He retired to Thurii Italy where he finished his life writing and training scribes.

History
There are as many versions as there are purposes and causes to serve. See: E.H.Carr’s “What Is History” Pelican 1961. This book, “The Epic Journey Of The Scribe’s Scroll is not concerned with ‘modern academic history’, nor with the traditional owners of history or myth, nor with the sanitised packaging of history and myth through universities, the press radio and TV, for political gain, for maintaining spiritual prejudices nor for profit or control. History is not, never has been and never will be an empirical area of knowledge. Dr. Bell knew his business of representing the interests of professional historians engaged in public history and the private needs of international scholarship. If I was to follow all these protocols, this story with its independent research could not and would never be told.

Jethro
A legendary priest of Midian, host to the Exodus, patriarch, and mystic of pre-Mosaic Yah, who in ‘exile’ from the land of Midian, re-established the extensive desert farming settlement at the wadi emanating from ‘The Mountain’ of the god Yah or El Shaddai, in the southern Sinai. Legend tells of a man called Mose who flees Egypt, after murdering a soldier, joins Jethro’s family and marries one of his daughters Zipporah. Exodus: 18, may be interpreted as the initiation of Aaron and the chosen Israelites into the cult of Yah through one of his sacrifices. Jethro’s son Haber, may have been Mose’s guide out of the Sinai to the land of Moab. Having had many daughters, this author assumes the son in ‘The Scroll’ to possibly be Hobab. He may have been the son to carry on with rebuilding the settlement, after Jethro’s death. The determination for rebuilding would be indicative of the spirit and drive eventually responsible for the continuity behind a monastery which still exists in this inhospitable place at the present time. Exodus 3:1, 4:18, 18:1-10, ‘Leviathan’T.Hobbes Ch. XXXVl. Sigmund Freud’s, “Moses and Monotheism” Pub:Vintage Books 1967.See plethora of reference books on Moses etc. Desert farming see: ‘The Negev M.Evenari, L. Shanan & N. Tadmore, 1971 Oxford Uni. Press London.

Kanku Chuan Fa
A travelling man from the area we would now call North Korea. His skills were what we would call in our era ‘martial arts’. He lived a charmed life, having survived being taken into the slave trade several times and eventually ending up as a gift to Ramesses II. He was given his freedom. Of his own free will, he remained loyal friend of Dedi’s family and accompanied Dedi on many of his journeys. He mated with Zouna for life. They had a daughter who became the tribal queen over ninety clans of the horse people, whose ancestors would one day conquer the world. A novel: “Princes Zouna Returns”.

Ma-gur Boat houses
Artificial floating islands, Noah’s Ark, Utu-nipishim’s Ark and oldest and three times the size of Noah’s Ark, the great six decked ship of Ziusudra. These giant ships are depicted so often in ancient writing and art work they must have existed. The reed ship was superseded by the plank ship, but not in majesty or size until the nineteenth century of the present era. We can be familiar with the problems of launching even a small reed ship as the ‘Ra” by Thor Heyerdahl. There was no such problem for the ancient royal ship builders in the reed marshes. Massive boats bigger than Noah’s Ark were built in boat holes which filled in the spring floods, giving launch to enormous seaworthy floating islands on which they sailed and drifted to the ends of the earth.

Mer-en-Ptah Hotep-Her-Maat-Merneptah
The fourth Pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty. Born to Istnofret, he was thirteenth son of Ramesses II. He was Pharaoh from B.C.E. 1213 to1203. After the deaths of his two remaining older brothers Prince Ramesses and Khaemwaset, he became surrogate Pharaoh for his god king father, who had been very ill for years. Merneptah inherited an Egypt at its penicil. Though successful in foreign battles, the spirit that united Egypt under his father for sixty years began to deteriorate under his reign. It is suggested, with the priesthood have weathered over sixty years of repression under Ramesses ll, they were prepared for the next Pharaoh. The Greek author of this tale would not have known him to be a rotund man in his sixties when he became pharaoh. Also he would not have seen the references to the ‘defeat of Israelites’ on a famous stele attributed to Merneptah and a similar reference in his mortuary temple. He had several sons and daughters. Tausert and Sethy-Merneptah are mentioned in this novel.

Minoans
Here again, the more you read and study the subject, the less we actually know and the more questions there are. The Minoans were a seafaring people who controlled the sea trade of the eastern Mediterranean (Small Sea), from the islands of Crete and Thera. In 1400 BCD, Thera was destroyed by volcanic activity and the island of Crete was levelled by accompanying earth quakes and tidal waves. These natural catastrophes were followed by a Hittite invasion. Some of these ‘masters of the sea’ or Sea People settled in the area to become Greece and helped to build the Mycenaean civilisation. About this time (by sheer coincidence of course?), a ship building industry began on the west coast of India. It is not impossible for Minoans to have also scattered to the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf and the Big Sea (Indian Ocean). Their pottery has even been discovered in Papua New Guinea. There is no evidence showing to the contrary that they could not have became involved with the ship building and sea trade of riverine civilisations on the Tigris-Euphrates rivers and with Indus valley civilisations. Why not? There are more mysteries about occupation of the islands of the Indian Ocean than there are answers. ‘The Maldive Mystery’ Thor Heyerdahl, Allen & Unwin, London 1986.

Mleccha, Meluhha, Port of the Seven Wise Men, Indus Valley Civilisation, and Dilmun (Tilmun)
When I started researching this tale, the biggest dilemma was how they could have possibly made it home? I went back to reading the works of Thor Heyerdahl. If you have any doubts about the advanced technology of sailing craft on the Indian ocean during and before the setting of this novel, read ‘The Tigris Expedition’ by Thor Heyerdahl. The return from the Great South Land to Mesopotamia in this novel could not have been possible without the scientific work, dedication and bravery of Mr. Heyerdahl.

Dilmun (Tilmin)
Remains both enigma and an excitement. Truly a lost civilization. This place appears to be the stepping stone upon which the originators of our civilisation may have tarried on way to Mesopotamia. One would think that such a famous place would have a museum (It is in Bahrain.) To rival The National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. This ruins of this civilization, its cities, ports, ziggurats and thousands of burial mounds lie just outside Bahrain. Here it seems to me would be the ultimate pilgrimage back into our past. It announces an ancestral heritage preceding our patriarch Abraham of Ur who would have known of this place, Dilmun (Tilmun). From whence they came, we know not. Thanks again to Mr. Heyerdahl who has so inspired me to attempt the telling of this story. Anyone at all interested in the origins of western civilization needs to read Geoffrey Bibby’s ‘Looking For Dilmun’ Collins Publishers, St.James Place, London 1970.

Moses or Mose (meaning son or child in Egyptian)
The man referred to here is complicated by at least two perspectives for viewing the man and the myth. According to Egyptian records, this Mose was a prince, grandson of Pharaoh, a field marshal accredited with victories in Ethiopia and a priest in the monotheistic tradition surviving in Egypt as started by Akhnaton (Ikhnathon). There is evidence to show following the catastrophic destruction of Akhetaton and with the return to the traditional pantheon of Egyptian gods, the monotheistic tradition continued for centuries, though with little popular success. This sect of priests may have been known as ‘The School of Priests at On’. They may have had an enclave at Qadesh contributing to the difficulties Egyptians had with battles there. It is suggested, through Mose, there was the chance for the sect to convert a great multitude from paganism.

Mosche or Mosheh (meaning ‘the drawer out’ in Hebrew)
May also have been the first born of a Levite linage, son of Amram, been adopted by an Egyptian princess and raised as her own. He eventually became leader of Exodus, ‘the giver of laws’, and lived to be one hundred and twenty. Moses and Monotheism” Pub:Vintage Books 1967.See plethora of reference books on Moses for countless versions of his life and times.

Ramesses II User-maat-re Ramesses
The third of eight Pharaohs in the Nineteenth Dynasty. He ruled for sixty six years from BCE. 1279 to 1213 and was one of the most successful Pharaohs; known for his successes at building, warfare, politics and diplomacy. The Greek author of this tale would not have known of his delta residence at Pi-Ramesse. The author’s knowledge of Ramesses ll would be limited to ruins in the Memphis area and from cults existing at the time of his visits to Egypt. For contemporary information, the Howard Carter for Ramesses ll would have to be Kenneth A. Kitchen’s, “Pharaoh Triumphant. The life and times of Ramesses ll, King of Egypt” Aris & Phillips Ltd-Warminster England,1983.

Rhoda
An albino Semitic woman, who had been left behind in the Midianite settlement of Jethro. Her mother was of the fierce Shasu and her father was of Midian. She practiced midwifery and the medical arts. Though of Ha Biru origins, she became an Egyptian priestess and travelled with Dedi, eventually becoming his wife and was mother to his many children. She is said to have lived to be 111 and passed away on the same day as Dedi. She became the first woman scribe to write in the Phoenician language, which was to become the language of the Hebrews and of King David’s court. In her later years she used her writing to free her mind of memories. This tradition was passed to her daughters and is a possible linage to the authoress told of in Harold Bloom and David Rosemberg’s, ‘The Book Of J’, pub: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. Her sons followed their father’s priestly line, learning Egyptian priestly ways and language.

South Land:
Europe came out of its dark age, with regards to the great South Land, only a little over two hundred years ago. Fisherman, head-hunters and migrating tribes have known about this place for thousands of years. Surely ancient ancestors of today’s Indonesia and the Philippines, who sailed to and inhabited islands in the Indian Ocean all the way to Madagascar, also visited The Great South Land. They still attempt fishing excursions to their ancestral fishing grounds along the north coast of Australia. Surely the Indus valley traders sailed their sturdy reed and plank-built ships as far south as they did west and north visiting this land. Ulysses sailed to the South Land. The ancient Chaldeans have a legend speaking of a land where the animals had pockets in their stomachs. With well crafted boats, civilisations of the ancient world were not as isolated from each other as historians would like us to believe. The ancient Romans who spoke of voyages to Ceylon mentioned a South Land. Pliny (Book Vl,XXlll,82) states that it takes a modern Roman boat seven days to sail from Ganges to the island of Ceylon and a reed boat twenty days. At the ‘Old Babylonian’ site of Terqa: “In the pantry of a house belonging to an individual named Puzurum, dated by tablets to c. 1700BC or slightly there after, were found a handful of cloves….native to Molucca Islands of the coast of Indonesia.” Mesopotamian Civilization the Material Foundations” D.T. Potts The Athlone Press London 1997 pp. 269-70

Jehovah YAH
The enigma of these letters, YHWH (vowels included Yah?), is they eventually formed the call sign, Jehovah, for a large part of the world’s population. In its original ancient traditional usage, YHWH (Yah) was not to be said aloud. James A Michener, in his book ’The Source’, Pub: Fawcett Crest, 1965, explains it simply and clearly, page 399. “But since any deity must be referred to in some manner the custom had grown up calling YHWH by the arbitrary Hebrews word ADONAI or ELOHIM (sing. ELOAH), which would later become Lord. When the vowel indications for Adonai were added to the letters YHWH, a curious symbol developed which German scholars many centuries later would mistakenly read as Jehovah, a name which never belonged to him or to anything else.” Adding to this controversial subject is the whole question of the family deity of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He also seems to be referred to by many other names such as: ‘Shaddai’ and El Elyon and El-. We know the letters YHWH, but not how it was pronounced. Just as likely is the real word for God is YAH or YAHU, as in JAHallel (Hebrew, He will praise God.), JEHdeiah (Hebrew, May YAH rejoice), JEHiah (Hebrew, May YAH rejoice), JEHO = JAHWEH or JEHoahaz (Hebrew, YEHOahaz or YO’AHAZ: YAH lays hold.)

Zouna
Matriarchal ancestor of the King of the world. A princess from the horse riding peoples of what we now call Mongolia. She was taken into the slave trade, by accident when she and her brothers were ambushed by explorers. She would have become an exotic slave for Merneptah’s harem, had the gods not seen the wisdom of her being mated with and companion to Kanku for life. With Zouna’s disappearance, her mother’s dynasty collapsed with much blood shed. Even knowing this, Zouna left her comfortable life in Upper Egypt with Kanku and attempted a return to her people to reclaim what was rightfully hers and her heirs. Miraculously, this myth become story has survived the ravages of time has fallen into my hands.