Sunday, 4 December 2011

Sambethe (estimated to have lived from 5000B.C.)


Sambethe, otherwise known as the Persian Sibyl or the Hebrew Sibyl lived from about 5000 B.C. And is believed to be the first ever Sibyl (meaning prophetess). Some of the books of the Sibylline oracles is attributed to her, and in which she identifies her family; father Gnostos, mother Circe, sister Isis. More interestingly, in the oracles she is identified as the daughter-in-law of Noah which places her at being in existence at the time of the Great Flood.

Technically she has married into the family of Enoch (the first prophet) who was the grandfather of Noah's wife, a family very knowledgeable in the ways of the prophet. As I researched the names of Noah's family further, the more varied the possible names became, it seems that each religion that recorded the story of Noah gives different possible names for his wife and his son's wives, and some religions even give multiple possible names. I do not wish to get dragged into a debate about Noah here so I will leave this part of the discussion till another time.
Again the topic comes up about the ages people lived to in those days, as various documents that mention Sambethe, mention that she lived many centuries. And as we all know loads of people in the Bible are listed have lived very long years. Anyways, the Sibylline oracles say that some years after flood, Sambethe mobed to Greece and began to write oracles.

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