A Cyclical History of the World:
From the Flood of Ogyges until the Event at Tunguska

by Stephen E. Franklin

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Table of Contents

Part I: Alignment of Hebrew, Egyptian, and Assyrian Chronologies

Introduction  The Patriarchs and the Pharaohs

Chapter One  Solomon and Shoshenq

Table: Chronological Alignment of Solomon and Shoshenq

Chapter Two  Joseph and Thutmosis IV

Table: Chronological Alignment of Joseph and His Relations with the Kings of the 18th Dynasty
Table: Comparison of Manetho's 18th Dynasty with Modern Values 

Chapter Three  Children of Merneptah―Moses, Miriam, and Seti II

The House of Merneptah

Table: Chronological Alignment of Moses and his Relations with the Kings of the 19th Dynasty

Osarsiph Seizes the Throne
An Earlier Revolt of the Stonecutters
Final Exodus
The Trojan Front
The Return of Seti

Table: Kings of the 19th Dynasty

Chapter Four  Judges of El

Dating the Judges

Table: The Period of the Judges from Joshua until the Ascension of Solomon
Table: Twelve Generations From Joseph to Joshua

The Assyrians Attack
The Song of Deborah
Ruth among the Judges
Samson among the Philistines

Table: The 20th and 21st Dynasties

Chapter Five  Abraham and the Kingdom of Ugarit

Table: Chronology of the Patriarchs from the Birth of Nahor until the Death of Jacob
Table: Preliminary Alignment of the Kings of Ugarit with the Hebrew Patriarchs

The Location of Ur
Abraham in Syria
Abraham in Egypt
The Battle with Chedorlaomer
Return to Syria
The Religion of Ugarit
Isaac in Egypt

Chapter Six  Ham, Shem, and the First Dynasty of Babylon

Table: Chronology of the Patriarchs from the Beginning of the 1st Dynasty of Babylon until the Birth of Abraham
Table: Decryption and Correction of the Ages and Lifespans of the Patriarchs
Table: Comparison of Early Assyrian and Biblical King-lists

Chapter Seven  Jewish Kingdoms―Israel and the House of David

Table: Chronology of the Late Period Kings of Judah, Israel, and Tyre

The Throne of David
Solomon and Shulmanu

A Play: The Song of Songs

Who Was the Queen of Sheba?

Table: Genealogy of the Early House of David

The City of Solomon
The Arrival of Kingship in Israel
Is There Balm in Gilead?—Romulus and the Lost Tribes of Israel

Table: Interlocking Rule in Latium and the Levant during the 8th Century BC

Chapter Eight  Adam and Atlas―Eden and the Fall of Atlantis

Table: Seasons of the Egyptian Year
Table: Global Cyclical Cataclysms and Their Associated Avatars

Eden and Atlantis

Table: Comparison of Antediluvian King-Lists

Location of the Garden

Map: Garden of Atlas, ca 3200 BC

Descendants of the Atlantes

Chapter Nine  Seth and Typhon―Identifying the Agent of Destruction

In the Beginning
The Father, the Mother, and the Son

Illustration: The Pythagorean Tetraktys or Tree of Life

The Pythagorean Cosmos

Starmap: Letters of the Phoenician Alphabet and Their Equivalent Asterisms
Starmap: Letters of the Phoenician Alphabet and Their Constituent Stars
Illustration: Tarot Board, School of Pythagoras, Circa 510 BC
Illustration: Location of the Name IAHUEH on the Tarot Tower

The Stairway to Heaven
The Event at Tunguska

Chapter Ten  Noah and Menes―The Ark at Thebes

Genesis of the Sahara
The Antediluvian World

Table: "Eliminating some of the noise from the table of antediluvian kings ..."
Table: The Antediluvian World from Horus to Menes

The Deluge

Table: Bonnaud's Table of Thebes and the Ark

The Global Presence of the Flood Story

Table: Descendants of Noah (Menes) to the End of the First Dynasty of Egypt

Chapter Eleven  Sargon, Naram-Sin, and the Egyptian Seventh Dynasty

Table: The Egyptian Seventh Dynasty and the Akkadian Empire

The Table of Nations

Table: Table of 72 "Nations" from Genesis
Table: 28 Provinces of the Akkadian Empire

Decoding Manetho

Table: Manetho's First Seventeen Dynasties Adjusted for Temporal Inflation and Aligned with the Invasion of Sargon
Table: Manetho's Early Dynasty I Represented Using Roman Numerals
Table: Sothic Years One

Decoding the Sumerian Chronicles

Table: The Chronicle of the Single Monarchy from the 1st Dynasty of Kish through the Dynasty of Akkad―Adjusted and Aligned

Nitocris and Sargon
The Timeline in India

Table: List of the Kings of India from Menes until Sargon

Chapter Twelve  Tangled Bloodlines

208 BC―The Mystery of Mithras

Table: Timeline of Events Related to Mithras, Yeshu the Nazir, and John the Baptist

102 BC―Yeshu the Nazir

Table: Ancestors of Jesus According to Matthew and Luke
Table: Various Elements of the Story of Jesus in Those of Other Avatars

333 BC―Alexander on the Way to Jerusalem
AD 5―The Hidden Messiah
The Son of Isis
Yeshu among the Phoenicians

Table: Yeshu before the Flood
Table: Comparison of Antediluvian King-Lists in Luke and Matthew

Er—The Resurrection of an Armenian King

Chapter Thirteen  The Hyksos and the Hebrews―The Second Intermediate Period

Dynasties in Chaos

Table: Dynasties 12 through 18 from Africanus—The Source of the Misalignment
Table: 16th Dynasty—Hebrew Governors of Canaan

Sargon—The Akkadian Interregnum

Djedkare Shema—Egypt and Crete under Unified Rule

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The Kings of Crete from the Phaistos Disc
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61 Days—The Phaistos Royal Calendar
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Twilight
The Feathered Serpent

Chapter Seventeen  AD 854—Pope Joan