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Yes, I'm aware Solon was already dead, my point was that through Solon this story got to Plato. I'm Italian and when I type rapidly I usually tend to
fail to use the right word sometimes.
Nonetheless, it was the belief of an Egyptian priest, therefore this account was a reality for them, or at least for him.
You don't need a work from Solon when you already have the testimony of Plato. Socrates didn't leave anything either, but we know his philosophy
through Plato. There are countless examples where oral traditions left us true accounts.
Regarding any ancient Egyptian text that says anything like that, I'd suggest Aegyptiaca by Manetho.
I'm sorry if I still don't know how to quote properly, I'm just going to answer here.
The concept of returning cycles of the world where catastrophe occasionally occurs during the end of a cycle is actually a belief shared by all those
cultures and mythologies. Saying "it's not" does not represent an argument.
If you wish, I'll make you a list of the mythological and sacred texts where you can find what I'm talking about.
Some examples would be "Waynaboozhoo and the Great Flood" for Native Americans, the obvious beliefs from the Inca and Aztec civilizations which the
whole world caught up into in 2012 (that allegedly marked the end of a cycle for them), but explicit texts regarding cyclicity you can fin in the
Popol Vuh and the myth called "The Shepherd and the Daughters of the Sun".
These mythologies came to them from oral traditions by Olmecs and Toltecs.
When it comes to Hindu mythologies, well the passages from the Rig-Veda and the Mahabharata are not rare.
Also, you can find it in the myth of Gilgamesh, in the Ziusudra, and other texts from ancient Mesopotamia.
The ancient Latin people believed that mankind already went through other stages before them, the first one being a golden age in which Saturn himself
dwelled among men (theory found in Hesiod's Theogony, and texts from Strabo and Diodorus Siculus).
This golden age was a belief from ancient Egyptians too, and the first cycle was called "Zep Tepi".
Of course, each one had a different reason why the cycle ended, some giving none. It's only Plato that said the Egyptians believed these cycles to end
with astrological cycles.
I can make other examples if you wish, also with Scandinavian mythology and other texts.
To answer your comment regarding Pierre Adams, it didn't work, it was never actually tried, and was obvious to the vast majority of engineers that
such a thing was not feasible to place 800 hundred tonnes block on top of other stones in a precise way.
If you, in turn, have evidence that such machine worked, please provide it, I'm always open to reconsider my positions.