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of Zoan, descended from the Horite Akan or Yaakan, who was the 
Agenor of the Greeks. They had possessions in the Sinaitic peninsula, 
for in Numbers xxxiii. 31, 32, and in Deuteronomy x. 6, we read of 
Beeroth of the Bene-Jaakan, a name transferred in after years to Berytus 
in Phoenicia, for Bene-Jaakan gives the Phcenician name. The second 
letter in Yaakan is ayév, which has the value of g; hence the word 
would be transliterated Yagakan. It was out of this the Hittites made 
their Kukuno, or as elsewhere Kukano. Zoan, or, as Genesis xxxvi. 27, 
calls him, Zaavan, and 1 Chronicles i. 42, Zavan, was the elder brother 
of Akan or Yaakan. They were sons, along with Bilhan, the eldest, of 
Ezer, the son of Manahath, whom Osburn has compared with the Egyp- 
tian god Month, and who was the son of Shobal, the Horite, the Seb-ra 
of the Egyptians, his elder brother being Reaiah or Ra, the sun-god. 
Unless Manahath be Menes, this illustrious family has no early recog- 
nition on the Egyptian monuments, but Ezer is, in all probability, the 
Osiris whose body was dismembered by Typhon, who was Ziph or 
Khufu, and his grandson, the son of Yaakan, named Etam or Getam, is 
the Cadmus, son of Agenor, of the Greeks, and the Timzeus of Manetho, 
in whose reign the Hyksos conquered Egypt. 
To return to the general of Yahdai called Lasada. He is, no doubt, 
the Hyksos leader named by Manetho Salatis, but Arabian tradition calls 
him Lasouad, and ascribes to him the excavation of Lake Maras, the 
Meeris of the Greek writers. He is the Shuhite prince Laadah or Lag- 
dah of 1 Chronicles, iv. 21, the ancestor of the Lydians of Asia Minor, 
the Eleut Koriaks of Siberia and Kamtchatka, the Aleutians, and the 
Oneidas. According to the Kenite chronicler, his son was Mareshah or 
the illustrious Reshah, the Maris or Mceris, and the Marsyas of the 
Greeks, who gave name to the great Egyptian reservoir. This Mareshah 
is the Latin god Mars, and, without the honorific prefix ma, the Ares of 
the Greeks, the Arioski of the Koriaks, and the Areskoui of the Iroquois. 
Another inscription from the same place, the Wady Mokkateb, unites 
Yahdai and Lasada in two distinct proclamations. It is Mr. Forster's 
—— 
No. VIII. kishishime taki ma da shi shi kushi 
be kushi no kata ya da 
kishishime ra shi no ya ta 
la shi da shi no to 
In connected form : 
kiza shime daki Mada seshi Kushi 
engraved notice receives Mada regent Kushi 
