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Scota, Egyptian Queen of the Scots 15 Scota, Egyptian Queen of the Scots 15 AESOP’S FABLES AESOP’S FABLES Aesop’s Fables have been told and retold for thousands of years. Here are a few that The ‘X’ Chronicles have picked to pass on. THE FOX AND THE GRAPES THE FOX AND THE GRAPES A fox was walking along the road, when he spied some delicious grapes growing on a high trellis. “My they look good!” he said. He jumped up but couldn’t reach them. He tried again and again, but to no avail. Finally he looked angrily at the grapes and said, “Hmmmmm, who wants the old grapes? They’re probably sour anyway.” Cleopatra to Christ / Moral: It’s easy to despise what you Cleopatra to Christ / Scota, Egyptian Queen of the Scots can’t have. Scota, Egyptian Queen of the Scots THE SICK LION THE SICK LION by Ralph Ellis by Ralph Ellis A lion, unable from old age and infirmities to provide himself with food by force, resolved to do so by trickery. He returned Book I - Cleopatra to Christ Book I - Cleopatra to Christ to his den, and lying down there, pretended to be sick, taking care that his should be publicly Why was the birth of a poor 'carpenter' in the first century known. The beasts expressed their sorrow, and AD visited by the Magi: the Persian king-makers? Why came one by one to his den. After many of the was Jesus later known as the 'King of the Jews'? There is a beasts had thus disappeared, a fox, presenting great deal of evidence within the New Testament, which himself to the lion, stood on the outside of the demonstrates that Jesus was actually of royal blood. But if cave, at a respectful distance, and asked him this is so, then from which royal family was he descended? how he was, “I am very middling,” replied the Using many strands of contemporary evidence, Ralph Ellis lion, “but why are you standing out there? has pieced together a historical jigsaw puzzle, which Please come in and talk with me.” “No thank demonstrates that the biblical Jesus was directly descended you,” said the fox. “I notice that there are many from Cleopatra VII, the most famous queen of Egypt. But footprints entering your cave, btu I see no trace this is not all, for in piecing this story together it would of any returning.” seem that Jesus also had an aristocratic Roman and royal Moral: The wise person learns from the Persian ancestry too; and it is the latter bloodline element misfortunes of others. that explains the appearance of Persian Magi at his birth. THE ASS AND THE FOX But why should the New Testament authors obscure the THE ASS AND THE FOX ancestry of such an illustrious prince? Well, the gospel writers were looking for an ideal family as their role model, but this particular royal family hid a dark, unmentionable secret. An ass put on a lion’s skin, and roamed Join Ralph on the incredible untold story of a king and queen who were exiled to Judaea in around the forest amusing himself by scaring all 4AD - just a couple of years before the Roman taxation of Judaea, when Jesus is said to the foolish animals eh met. Finally, he met a have been born. fox, and tried to scare him too - but as soon as the fox heard the ass’s voice, he said, “Well, I Book II - Scota, Egyptian Queen of the Book II - Scota, Egyptian Queen of the might have been frightened... if I hadn’t heard Scots your bray.” Scots Moral: Clothes may disguise a fool, but The legends of Ireland and Scotland tell a fantastic tale of his words give him away. an Egyptian queen and her Greek husband, who were THE THIRSTY PIGEON exiled from Egypt at some point during the second THE THIRSTY PIGEON millennium BC. Chased from their homelands, they took to the sea and settled in Spain and then Ireland. It is said that A pigeon, overcome by thirst, saw a it was from this Queen Scota and King Gaythelos that the glass of water painted on a sign. Not realizing it modern titles for the Scottish and Gaelic people were was only a picture, she quickly flew towards it derived. All of these early Celtic myths were finally set and crashed into the sign. Her wings broken, she down in a fourteenth century book called 'Scotichronicon', fell to the ground.. and was captured by a the title page of which appears on the cover of this book. bystander. But what are we to make of this ancient story - is it based Moral: Zeal should not outrun more upon fact or fiction? Historians have, as one might discretion. expect, taken the story to be complete fiction; but there are THE SERPENT AND FILE many elements to this hoary old tale that demonstrate that THE SERPENT AND FILE the authors of Scotichronicon knew a great deal about the ancient history and language of Egypt. Ralph Ellis has taken a lateral look at this mythology, and found many links and A serpent wandered into a carpenter’s associations that lead to one inescapable conclusion - that the extraordinary tale of Queen shop. As he glided over the floor he felt his skin Scota and King Gaythelos is probably true. pricked by a file lying there. 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