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Misor
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Misor was the name of a deity appearing in a theogeny provided by Roman era Phoenician writer Philo of Byblos
in an account preserved by Eusebius in his Praeparatio Evangelica, and attributed to the still earlier Sanchuniathon
. He was one of two children of the deities Amunos and Magos. The other named was Sydyk. It is said that these two were the first to discover the use of salt
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Misor's son was named Taautus
, and believed to be the inventor of the first written alphabet.
Philo of Byblos
Philo of Byblos was an antiquarian writer of grammatical, lexical and historical works in Greek. He is chiefly known for his Phoenician history assembled from the writings of Sanchuniathon.-Life:...
in an account preserved by Eusebius in his Praeparatio Evangelica, and attributed to the still earlier Sanchuniathon
Sanchuniathon
Sanchuniathon is the purported Phoenician author of three lost works originally in the Phoenician language, surviving only in partial paraphrase and summary of a Greek translation by Philo of Byblos, according to the Christian bishop Eusebius of Caesarea...
. He was one of two children of the deities Amunos and Magos. The other named was Sydyk. It is said that these two were the first to discover the use of salt
Salt
In chemistry, salts are ionic compounds that result from the neutralization reaction of an acid and a base. They are composed of cations and anions so that the product is electrically neutral...
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Misor's son was named Taautus
Taautus
Taautus of Byblos, according to the Phoenician writer Sanchuniathon, was the inventor of writing and son of Misor who was bequeathed the land of Egypt by Cronus....
, and believed to be the inventor of the first written alphabet.