Some Similarities: Lecture by Mr. Kliene to Royal Asiatic Society At a meeting of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic So ciety held on Thursday afternoon in its lecture hall, Mr. Charles Kliene gave a very valuable paper on "Some Similarities in Chinese and Ancient Egyptian Culture." In introduction to his paper which represented a great deal of reading and original research Mr. Kliene said: "Egypt and China are the two most ancient nations of the world whose traditions and record= have come down to us in a connected form. In comparing these two records of ancient culture so many remarkable similarities have come to light that it is difficult nob to believe that the one is in some wav related to or derived from the other. The records of Egypt extend further back than thosd of China by thousands of years. It seems, therefore, more reasonable to suggest that LEgypt's culture vas the original and that it found its way to China as it found its way to Central America, rather than that Chinese culture went westward and appeared in Egypt.
"No man-made records have been discovered in Central Asia approaching the antiquity of the Egyptian god Ptah, the frst of the personifications- of rin the pre-Osirian religion, or even in the 'Book of Dead' dealing with Amon-Ra to justify the contention that civilization began at some mid-way point in an. Asiatic desert and then spread both to the west and the east. Osirian religion, which is practically the same solar cult under a different name, is at least 20,000 years old and maybe 50,000 for aught we know and pre Osirian cults existed for something like 60,000 years before-that. Central Asia has disclosed nothing of human origin equal to this in FIRST BORN OF CHAOS, Many striking resemblances _between China and Egypt were pointed out by Mr.- Kliene, starting with the fact that both agree that in the beginning all was chays. According to the Chinese the- first being to come out of chacs was P'an Ku, whose Father was Heaven' and whose Mother was Earth. After accomplishing his mighty work he died and his breath became the wind and clouds, his voice the thunder, one eye the sun, the other the moon, and so on. The oldest Egyptian god Res Horns bears a remarkable resemblance to the first Chinese man. Both nations had the idea of the Trinity,—Heaven, Earth, and a god in human form.
Fu Hsi, the additional founder of Chinese polity, was the offspring of a miraculous conception, an idea carried out in all great religi ions. From mysterious scrolls he derived a philosophy, "thus Fu Hei
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