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same man. Also the brother of the Eg)'ptian Menka-Hor, son of Senta, 

 was Singasit, called the son of the lady Bclat-Sunat, who ruled in Chal- 

 dea at Urukh or Warka. A Welsh Mabinogi mentions his mother as 

 Bleiddan Sannt of Glamorgan ; but, Diirabile dictii, he is no other than 

 the Hengist of Briti.sh story, and his Egyptian brother is its Horsa, no 

 Saxons at all, but most genuine Gaels. To Vortigern and Vortimer they 

 were foreigners, however, for these monarchs were of Hittite race. 



The Egyptian monuments have preserved for us the names of 

 four Hittite army leaders who are as Celtic as any of the foregoing 

 worthies. Brugsch calls the first of these, who was a son of Ulam- 

 Buryas and thus a cousin of Tutankh, by the varying names Sapalili, 

 Saplel, Saprer. An xA.ssyrian form of the same Patinian name was 

 Sapal-Ulme, and its Hebrew equivalent was Achbor-Ulam, in Ossianic 

 language Cairbar of Ullin. His son Mauro-sar was the original of the 

 Greek Meleager, famous in the story of the Calydonian boar, which 

 received its geographical name from Zimran's son, the ancestral Gilead. 

 And his son Mauthanar, by simple inversion of the parts of his name 

 and a common dental change, becomes Near-mada or Diarmaid, the 

 hero of the Irish boar hunt and the supposed mythical ancestor of all 

 the Campbells. After his death his brother Khetasar made peace with 

 the great Rameses and gave him his daughter in marriage. Wlio 

 stands for Khetasar in Celtic tradition I have not yet found, but, in 

 Herodotus and elsewhere among Greek writers, he is Cytissorus, the last 

 of the dynasty of Phrixus, which Phrixus was Buryas or Peresh, the son 

 of Gilead, and father of Ulam and Rakem. 



The list of distinguished Celts of monumental antiquity which I have 

 furnished is far from exhaustive. It comprises five Pharaohs only, and 

 these by no means the greatest. The great Egyptian monarchs were 

 Hittites, with the exception of the Thothmes- Rameses, who were of Horite 

 or Phoenician descent. But the Celtic Pharaohs were very religious, from 

 the divine Senta down to Prince Ptahhotep, the son of Assa, who wrote 

 a book of moral precepts. The latter was a Welsh Eudav, Latinized by 

 monkish chroniclers into an Octavius. He, however, was not the Eudav 

 who gave his daughter in marriage to Maxen Wledig. That Eudav was 

 luau or Shamas-Iva, whose daughter Thi married Nimutriya or Amcn- 

 hotep 1 1 1., a Hittite Pharaoh of the Keriezite line to which Caleb the son 

 of Jephuimeh belonged. His Hittite name was Meonothai or Megonothai, 

 and he is at once the Maxen and the Manawyddan of Welsh tradition. 

 What the Celt lacked in Egypt he made up for in Babylonia and even in 

 Assyria. There the Cymro or Sumirian came first, and the Accadian or 

 Hittite second. Look up the twentieth cut in George Smith's Chaldean 



