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Rh Hermes. This "Thoor" is now seen to be the first Sumero-Gothic King Thor or The Asa Bur-Mioth who, as I have shown elsewhere, was the historical human original of Pro-Metheus, the traditional inventor of writing according to the Greeks, as cited at the head of the opening chapter.

That alphabetic letters were not invented in Egypt is clear, as we have seen, from the fact that true alphabetic writing is not found in Egypt, except amongst Phœnicians and other foreign colonists in the post-Cadmean period. And of the supposed derivation of alphabetic letters from the Egyptian hieroglyphs, it is now seen that only one of M. de Rougé's hieroglyphs is represented in the alphabetic letters, and that one with its name or phonetic value was borrowed from the Sumerian.