Misor

Misor is level ground used as a moral term, the way English uses 'straight'. He and Sydyk are a pair because the words are a pair — sedeq and mishor turn up together throughout Northwest Semitic as the formula for dealing rightly — and Philo, writing a genealogy, has to make them brothers. His son invents the alphabet, which places writing one generation downstream of honest dealing. For a Phoenician account of the world's useful inventions that is a defensible order.

Children

• Taautos

Domains

• justice

Relations

• sibling: SydykThe other half of the word-pair.Reference treatment pairing Misor with Sydyk. (secondary)
• father of: TaautosFather of the inventor of the alphabet, which makes writing the child of uprightness — a genealogy that is clearly doing moral work as well as narrative work.Philo of Byblos: 'From Misor came Taautos, who discovered how to write the first letters.' (primary)

Sources

• Misor is a personification of uprightness in Philo of Byblos's Phoenician History, paired with Sydyk and named as the father of Taautos, the inventor of letters.: Philo of Byblos, Phoenician History. (primary); Reference treatment of Sydyk and Misor. (secondary)