Libya Named for Triton’s Wife Grandson Nasamon Made Famous Later Garamas of Minos’ Daughter Greeks to Kyrene

Ham’s grandson Sidon (see Genesis 10 the Table of Nations), otherwise known as Poseidon, had a son named Triton who married Libya and later had a grandson named Nasamon (the father of the ancient Nasamones of Libya). About a thousands years later, Minos of Crete sent his disgraced daughter to Libya where she bore Amphithemis, known also as Garamas, the father of the Garamantes who began the foggara irrigation system when the Ice Age had all but ended. The name Cyrenaica for the region was established by the Greeks circa 650 b. C. when they settled in the uplands near the coast on the spring called Kyre, for Cyre a warrior woman who killed a lion, perhaps an Amazon of a lineage which stayed when queen Myrina led most to Anatolia as Lake Tritonis to the west was drying-up.