No. 5.] CAMPBELL — HITTITES IN AMERICA. ;^93 



Abasech and Thapsacus are Pasco, Pisco, Posco and Tapacoche, 

 all denoting places of importance. Ashtar again and the Basque 

 Haitor are represented in the name of another legendary monarch 

 and hero, Ayatarco, concerning whose reign a remarkable story 

 is told that recalls the Bible narrative of Sodom and Gomorrah. 

 *' Giants having entered Peru, they populated Huaytara and 

 other towns, and built a sumptuous temple in Pachacamac, using 

 instruments of iron. As they were given up to sodomy, divine 

 wrath annihilated them with a rain of fire, although a part of 

 them were enabled to escape by going to Cuzco. Aytarco-Cupo 

 went out to meet them, and dispersed them about Limatambo." 

 Finally Euskara, Iscouria and Achaicarus find their analogue in 

 a famous Peruvian name which the present war with Chili has 

 brought to the knowledge of every newspaper reader, as that of 

 the best war-vessel of the Peruvians. Huascar is the name 

 given by Montesinos to the immediate successor of Ayatarco and 

 to subsequent occupants of the throne of the Incas, and it appears 

 also in the annals of Garcillasso. I hold that Huascar, Ayatarco 

 and Apachic are the Peruvian equivalents of the Circassian 

 Achaicarus and the Basque Euskara, of the Hittite Ashtar and 

 the Basque Haitor, of the Accad Hubisega and the Circassian 

 Pkhah. Just as, in ancient Chaldea, Sumerians and Accad 

 worshippers of Hubisega dwelt side by side, as, in Spain, Cymri 

 and Basques once bordered on each other, and as, in Kitaya, 

 Cambodian Khmer and Karien Passuko are found ; so, in Peru, 

 Aymaras and Quichua worshippers of Apachic divided the land. 

 The Institutes of Menu make mention of this ancient Turanian 

 family, perhaps at the time that the Karien Passuko were fighting 

 their way southward to their Burmese home. In that old Sans- 

 crit record they are the Pisachas, and belong to the great race of 

 the Asuras, the Sanscrit equivalent doubtless of Euskara and 

 Huascar. 



I may now refer to my former paper, in which I demonstrated 

 that the Peruvians, far from being an isolated American family, 

 are of the same stock as the Muyscas of New Granada, the 

 Cherokee-Choctaws, Iroquois and Dacotahs of this northern con- 

 tinent, and the Japanese, Koriaks and other Peninsular tribes of 

 north-eastern Asia. In that paper I set forth the mythological 

 names Pesca or Bochica of the Muyscas, Eefeekeesa of the Mus- 

 kogees, a branch of the Choctaw family, and Jebisu of the 

 Japanese, as denoting the same solar divinity, and to these I now 



