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In the persons of Ganibeta and Otadi, this family must have been fully 

 domiciled in Hierro, and this will account for the number of inscriptions 

 in that island. Ganibeta and Otadi belonged to the Hamathite, Beero- 

 thite, or Kenite stock, who were, par excellence, scribes (I. Chronicles II., 

 55), and who wrote the inscriptions of Arabia Petraea called Sinaitic. 

 As Hamathites, they are represented by the greatly cherished name of 

 the Japanese, Yatna-to, or "The Mountain Door," as well as by the 

 Amoxoaquis of the Mexican Toltecs, and the Amautas of the Peruvians, 

 who were their wise men, for the synonymous word Kenite is derived 

 from the Japanese Ke?t, "intelligent, clever, wise." These scribes must 

 in part have accompanied the Zerethites or Toltecs of the Canaries, both 

 in their migration thither, and afterwards to America ; for, not only 

 were the sages of Peru called Amautas or Hamathites, but also the 

 word Amauta enters into the composition of no fewer than eleven 

 names of the Incas given by Montesinos. While the original word 

 Hamath undoubtedly meant the same as the Japanese Yama-to, the 

 Mountain Door, from the application of the term to scribes, it came to 

 denote a book or library, as in the Akkadian forms sumuk, saniak, the 

 Japanese and Loo-Cliooan sJiomotsu and sJiivnitzi, and the Mexican 

 ainox, whence the wise men or Amoxoaquis. 



It is worth)' of note in this connection that Berothai. the Syrian 

 capital of a Hadad-ezer or Ben-Hadad of this race, leads back to an 

 ancient Hittite Beeroth, named evidently after Beeri, a father-in-law 

 of Esau, whose wife was Bashemath, and his daughter Judith or 

 Yehudith. Homer and the Greek dramatists have preserved the 

 eponym of Beeroth as Proteus, the old man of the sea ; his wife 

 Bashemath as Psamathe, and his daughter as Eidothea. Beeri, the father 

 of Bedad and grandfather of the first Hadad, or Usertsen of Abydos, 

 gave name to the Bharatan race of India, celebrated in that famous 

 epic, the Maha-Bharata, of which Yudhish-thira or Hadad-ezer is the 

 principal hero. The Parthians of the Persian Empire were the same 

 race, and their kings, Tiri-dates, bore the name with inversion of parts. 

 In Welsh history the well-known word Brython has nothing to do with 

 the Cymri or any other Celtic people, and as certainly has no 

 connection with the Sassenach. The Br\'thon were Iberic Picts, in 

 other words, the Ottadini. There are two curious passages, in the poems 

 of Taliesin, the Welsh bard, and in one by an anonymous author, which 

 seem to point, not only to an Iberian connection of the Welsh, but to 

 the fact that the Iberians were their instructors in mythology and many 

 things beside. In his Angar Cyvyndawd, Taliesin says : 



" Traethator fyng'ofeg", 

 Yn Efrai, yn Efroegf." 



