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II. The Persians knew them as the Gimiri, the Greeks as the Cim- 

 merians, and they are in part represented by the Cymri or Welsh 

 people of the present day. Dungi or Tarkhun-dara, the son of Urukh, 

 wrote a letter to Amenhotep IV., the Pharaoh of Tel-el-Amarna, in 

 pure Celtic, asking for the hand of his daughter, the princess Akh, 

 called in Egyptian Ankh-nes-paaten, whom he afterwards married, 

 and by whom he became a Pharaoh under the title of Tutankh-Amen. 

 The Celtic tongue in which he wrote was the Sumerian or Zimrite. 

 A descendant of Zimran, and father of Urukh, or more properly 

 Orchamus, was Peresh, the Buryas of the Babylonian monuments, and 

 the brother of Orchamus was Ulam-Buryas, or Ulam, the son of Peresh. 

 This Ulam figures in Irish legendary history as Ollamh, whom the old 

 chronicles call Ollamh Fodhla, and represent as a great lawgiver and 

 patron of learning. The word ollamh came to mean a doctor or 

 professor of any kind of learning, as it does to the present day. A 

 son of Ulam was Bedan, the Phaethon of the Greeks, fabled to have 

 been drowned in the Eridanus or Padus named after him, the Eridanus 

 being the Jordan of Palestine. This name so far has not been clearly 

 identified on the oriental monuments, but it survives in Greek story. 

 The second Ilus of the Dardanian line was his father Ulam, who had 

 married into the Zerethite family of Zareth-Shachar on the Dead Sea, 

 and had thus acquired supremacy over the Dardanians. The son of 

 Ilus was Laomedon, which truncated and apocopated word represents 

 Ulam-Bedan, in an inverted or Turanian order, meaning Bedan of 

 Ulam, but which in Celtic syntax should read Bedan-Ulam. As a 

 geographical term, it survives in Bodon-hely of Hungary, known to 

 the classical geographers as Ulmum of Pannonia, through which 

 country the Boii and other Celts passed on their way to the west and 

 north ; and also in the more western combination of Baden with Ulm 

 of Wurtemburg. Potonchan, where the Toltecs and Olmecs landed in 

 Mexico, Peten, and the Votan of legendary American history, all have 

 reference to the ancient fame of Bedan, son of Ulam ; and the Bladud 

 of British history, who flew like Phaethon and was dashed to the earth, 

 but who built Caer-Badus or Bath, is a corruption of Bedan, since 

 Nennius places Badon hill at Bath. The Ulams or Ollamhs were the 

 Olmecs of Mexican story, who were confederate with the Toltecs. 

 Did we know more of Guanche history, their name and that of the 

 Bedanites might appear in the Canary Islands. The Celtic Vettones 

 in Strabo's time dwelt side by side with the Iberic Turdetani in Spain. 

 It is not beyond the reach of possibility, that the Latin name of the 

 Canary archipelago, " Fortunatae Insulae," may be a corruption of 

 *' Fotunats Insulae," or the Islands of Votan or of the Votanides. 

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