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procession, Canek fell upon them and carried off the princess. Then 

 gaining the sea shore, he embarked with his prize and bore her away 

 to his kingdom of Peten. This is the Celto-Dardanian story of Helen, 

 taken by Paris from Menelaus, the aged bridegroom, and carried to 

 Troy by way of Sidon. In the Celtic or British story, as told in the 

 Mabinogion and by Geoffrey of Monmouth, the lover of Helen was 

 Conan Meriadoc, who would have taken her from Maxen VVledig, to 

 whom her father Eudav or Octavius, had married her. This Conan is 

 the Conn of Ossian and of Campbell's Tales of the West Highlands ; 

 and, in Irish story, is Conn of the hundred battles, the father of an 

 Art or Arthur. As Paris was called Alexander, so in the Indian 

 Puranas he bears the name Harischandra, and his son that of Rohita, 

 the Irish Art. Whatever truth may lie in the varying details of his 

 story, this hero was a historical personage, being Baal-chanan, the last 

 but one of the ancient line of kings, who, before the time of Moses, 

 reigned in what subsequently became the domain of the Edomites. 

 From the Chanan part of his name came the British Conan, the Gaelic 

 Conn, and the American Canek. The British addition Meriadoc, like 

 the Gaelic Murdoch and Murtough, is a Turanian or Hittite word, 

 Merodach or Berodach, meaning the son of Beor, w^ho was Bela or 

 Baal, whence Baal-Peor ; Merodach, therefore, is a synonym of Baal, 

 and Conan Meriadoc is virtually Hannibal. The Greeks cut dowm the 

 full name Baal-hanan to the form of Priamos, and made him the father 

 of the handsome libertine instead of himself, and they represented him 

 as the son of Laomedon or Ulam-Bedan, while his true father's name 

 was Achbor, perhaps, although this is not settled, a brother of Bedan. 

 He reigned over the Dardanian region in which lay Zareth-Shachar, 

 and of his race were the Celtic army leaders of the Hittites ; for 

 Achbor was the Saprer of the Egyptian monuments who ruled in the 

 time of Ramses I., and his son was called Mauro-sar. But the sons of 

 the latter, one of whom gave his daughter in marriage to Ramses the 

 Great, were Mauthanar and Khetasar. The first the Greeks called 

 Antenor, and the second, Ramses' father-in-law, receives but scant 

 mention as the Cytissorus or Cytorus of Herodotus and Strabo. 

 Baalhanan, as the son of Achbor or Saprer, must have been the 

 elder brother of Mauro-sar, and thus the uncle of Mauthanar. With 

 inversion of parts, for these compound names, as on a treaty of peace 

 with the Hittites, are in Turanian order, Mautha-nar would read 

 Nar-mautha. This is Brugsch's form of the name ; Lenormant's is 

 Maut-nur. Now this Nur-maut is Celtic, being Near-mada, " the boar 

 pig," and, with a change of the initial dental, is Diarmaid, the ancestor 

 of the Campbells, and the slayer of the mighty boar, by which he was 



