... The four bereaved and searching divinities, the two mothers and their two sons, were joined by a fifth, the moon-god Thoth (who appears sometimes in the form of an ibis-headed scribe, at other times in the form of a baboon), and together they found all of Osiris save his genital member, which had been swallowed by a fish. They tightly swathed the broken body in linen bandages, and when they performed over it the rites that thereafter were to be continued in Egypt in the ceremonial burial of kings, Isis fanned the corpse with her wings and Osiris revived, to become the ruler of the dead. He now sits majestically in the underworld, in the Hall of the Two Truths, assisted by forty-two assessors, one from each of the principal districts of Egypt; and there he judges the souls of the dead. These confess before him, and when their hearts have been weighed in a balance against a feather, receive, according to their lives, the reward of virtue and the punishment of sin.

... In the morning of the world, there was nothing but water. The Loon was calling, and the old man who at that time bore the Raven's name, Nangkilstlas, asked her why. 'The gods are homeless', the Loon replied. 'I'll see to it', said the old man, without moving from the fire in his house on the floor of the sea. Then as the old man continued to lie by his fire, the Raven flew over the sea. The clouds broke. He flew upward, drove his beak into the sky and scrambled over the rim to the upper world. There he discovered a town, and in one of the houses a woman had just given birth.

... A Sumerian tablet, now in Oxford (Weld-Blundell, 623), gives a list of ten mythological kings who ruled for a total of 456,000 years in the period between the first descent of kingship from the courts of heaven upon the cities of men and the coming of the Flood.

A second tablet (Weld-Blundell, 144) names only eight of these kings, with a total of 241,200 years; and a third list, very much later, composed in Greece c. 280 B.C. by the learned Babylonian priest Berossos ... gives all ten kings again, but with a total of 432,000 years - which is an extremely interesting sum. For in the Icelandic Poetic Edda it is told that in Odin's heavenly warrior hall there were 540 doors:

Five hundred doors and forty there are, // I ween, in Valhall's walls; // Eight hundred fighters through each door fare // When to war with the Wolf they go.

The 'war with the Wolf' in that mythology was the recurrent cosmic battle of the gods and the antigods at the end of each cosmic round (the Götterdämmerung of Wagner's Ring), and as the reader - ever alert - has no doubt already realized, 540 times 800 is 432,000, which is the number given by Berossos for the sum of years of the antediluvian kings.

Furthermore, in the Indian Mahabharata, and other texts of the Puranic period (c. 400 A.D. and thereafter), the cosmic cycle of four world ages numbers 12,000 'divine years' of 360 'human years' each, which is 4,320,000 human years; and our particular portion of the cycle, the last and worst, the so-called Kali Yuga, is exactly one-tenth of that sum. So that we have found this number, now, in Europe, c. 1100 A.D., in India, c. 400 A.D., and in Mesopotamia c  300 B.C., with reference in each case to the measure of a cosmic eon. (Campbell The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology.)

By analogy with the ancient king lists we can guess that in Manuscript E ariki motogi ko oto uta corresponded to Adam and ariki motogi ko hotu.a matua to Noah: