Charles Editors

CHAPTER I

THE SAVAGE’S DREAD OF INCEST

PRIMITIVE MAN is known to us by the stages of development through which he has passed: that is, through the inanimate monuments and implements which he has left behind for us, through our knowledge of his art, his religion and his attitude towards life, which we have received either directly or through the medium of legends, myths and fairy-tales; and through the remnants of his ways of thinking that survive in our own manners and customs. Moreover, in a certain sense he is still our contemporary:

Ahmose (1550-1525)

Amenhotep I (1525-1504)

Thutmose I (1504-1492)

Thutmose II (1492-1479)

Thutmose III (1479-1425)

Hatshepsut (1473-1458)

Amenhotep II (1427-1400)

Thutmose IV (1400-1390)

Amenhotep III (1390-1352)

Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten (1352-1336)

Smenkhare (?)

Neferneferuaten (who some scholars believe was Nefertiti) (?)

Tutankhamen (1336-1327)

Ay (1327-1323)

Horemheb (1323-1295)

Ahmose (1550-1525)

Amenhotep I (1525-1504)

Thutmose I (1504-1492)

Thutmose II (1492-1479)

Thutmose III (1479-1425)

Hatshepsut (1473-1458)

Amenhotep II (1427-1400)

Thutmose IV (1400-1390)

Amenhotep III (1390-1352)

Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten (1352-1336)

Smenkhare (?)

Neferneferuaten (who some scholars believe was Nefertiti) (?)

Tutankhamen (1336-1327)

Ay (1327-1323)

Horemheb (1323-1295)

About noon, Your Majesty, a light from heaven brighter than the sun shone down on me.

"About noon, Your Majesty, a light from heaven brighter than the sun shone down on me."

Anne Boleyn’s coronation

Delta region before the close of the Late Stone Age. 3 The earliest outpourings of migrating Arabians may have been in progress about the same time. This early southward drift of Armenoids might account for the presence in southern Palestine, early in the Copper Age, of the tall race referred to in the Bible as the Rephaim or Anakim, “whose power was broken only by the Hebrew invaders”. 1 Joshua drove them out of Hebron, 2 in the neighbourhood of which Abraham had purchased a burial cave from Ephron, the Hittite. 3 Apparently a system of land laws prevailed in Palestine at this early period. It is of special interest for us to note that in Abraham’s day and afterwards, the landed proprietors in the country of the Rephaim were identified with the