18i)o-96.] THE CELT IN ANCIENT EGYPT AND BABYLONIA. Vl 



Euphrates to help Priam and the men of IHum. While Cephalus, the 

 name of the father of Tithonus, is but Hyperion and Amphiaraus, his 

 father-in-law over again, Laomedon and Phaethon are one. Ulam- 

 Euryas was a Babylonian king and a cousin of Urukh or Urhammu. His 

 son Ulam-Bedan, or in Celtic and Semitic as opposed toTuraiiian order, 

 Padan-Ulam, was at once the Laomedon and the Phaethon of the Greeks. 

 Bedan or Padan, the ancestor of the Patinians, and at the same time the 

 •original of the British Bladud or Badud, who built Caer-Badus or Bath, 

 and, like Phaethon, attempted to fly to heaven, was the second cousin of 

 Tarkhundara, Dungi, or Tutankh. As Tithonus, the latter is the German 

 Tannhaliser imprisoned in the Horselberg, and True Thomas in the 

 coverts of Ercildoune, as Sir George Cox has demonstrated, but, in 

 Geoffrey of Monmouth, he is also Caradoc's brother Dianotus, king of 

 Cornwall, whose all attractive daughter Ursula invites comparison with 

 the Horselberg and Ercildoune. Thus world-wide was the fame of the 

 really Cymric or Sumerian, but Gaelic writing, Tarkhun-dara. 



The marriage of Akh with Tarkhun-dara was far from being the first 

 alliance between the Babylonian and Palestinian Celts and the Pharaohs. 

 Thi, the wife of Amenhotep HI. and mother of Amenhotep IV., was a 

 relative of Tushratta, king of the Mitanni or Midianites who dwelt be- 

 tween the Euphrates and the Jordan. When on a hunting expedition in 

 his country, the Egyptian monarch met her and made her his queen. 

 The monuments represent her " with light hair, blue eyes, and rosy 

 cheeks, like the women of northern climates." Her name, in the form 

 Tea, occurs more than once in ancient Irish history, and she was the 

 .original Greek Theia. Her mother was Tuaa, daughter of Amenhotep 

 II., and her father is called luau. This pecuhar Egyptian dress hardly 

 conceals a Celtic Hugh, which appears among Mitannian or Midianite 

 names as Eui or Evi. Here again we have to deal with no obscure man. 

 A son of the second cousin of Tushratta (who, by the way, was no less 

 a person than the Greek Adrastus), he was the Iva or Shamas-Iva, who, 

 with his father Ismi-Dagon and his brother Gungunu, not only ruled over 

 the greater part of Babylonia, but brought Assyria also under their 

 sceptre. They likewise called themselves kings of Sumir and Accad, 

 and asserted sovereignty over Ur as well. These proud Babylonian 

 monarchs, whose alliance the Pharaohs eagerly sought, must have been 

 tho.se whom Berosus comprised in his Median dynasty, the name Median 

 being then, as it probably was later, synonymous with Midianite. In the 

 sixteenth century B.C. they were almost supreme. The following table, 

 in which the Celtic members are printed in capitals, indicates their im- 

 portant position : 

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