Ar-Lamech of Sirap's Songs Rescued from the Deluge

-tians name their Hermes Trismegistus original: "Merkur Trismegist." In the 18th century, the Roman Mercury and Greek Hermes were often used interchangeably. Hermes Trismegistus was the legendary "Thrice-Great" Egyptian sage to whom a vast body of mystical, alchemical, and philosophical writings was attributed. as the author. The Muslims original: "Muselmänner." A common historical term for followers of Islam used in older European literature. make him the inventor of various sciences, for all of which they claim he left behind written records.

While Noah built his Ark so as not to be included in the general wrath of his Lord which threatened his corrupt contemporaries, his kinsman Ar-Lamech Lamech is a biblical patriarch from the line of Seth (the father of Noah) or the line of Cain. In various traditions, his family is credited with the invention of music, metalworking, and poetry. composed songs in order to lead his degenerate fellow men back to the original simplicity of the patriarchal life. But—alas! The work was hardly finished when the whole human race, as is known to us from the Scriptures, was [overtaken] by a general over-