1898-99.] THE OLDEST WRITTEN RECORDS OF THE LEAGUE OF THE IROQUOIS. 261 
was simply “smelted or manufactured metal.” A member of this 
society, Dr. W. Canniff, may claim descent from Beda Kanebeta, a 
contemporary probably of the patriarch Abraham. MJHadad is the 
mining monarch out of whom the Greeks made their Aeetes of Colchis, 
and his adversary Husham is their Jason, whom, however, Hadad 
survived. 
Mr. Forster’s 61 is from the Wady Mokkateb. 
No. XV. kishishi be no da ta shiba 
ma no shi shi ta do shi ku no 
kumi meme 
ta do o shi shi da te 
In order : 
kiza shi Bendata shiba 
engraving ts Len-Hadad kills 
Amon sesshi todo seki-no 
Ammon commanding officer hasten will 
Kumi Emim 
League Emin 
todo oshi sadate 
officer violent death to avenge 
“ The engraving sets forth that Ben-Hadad has killed the commanding 
officer of Ammon. The Emim of the League will hasten to avenge the 
officer's murder.” This Ben-Hadad, so called, perhaps, because of his 
friendship for the Semitic speaking Sekenens and others, is the Hadad- 
ezer of his own Hittite language, and the Atotarho of the Iroquois 
tradition. With inversion of parts, the name is the same as the Parthian 
Tiri-dates and the Assyrian Esar-haddon. This early Hadad-ezer was 
the enemy of the Ammono-Hittite line, and favoured the Sekenens or 
Kukanos of the old Horite dynasty. The Emim of the inscription are 
the early inhabitants of Moab and Bashan, Genesis xiv. 5, for they 
really included the two branches of the Achashtarite division of the 
Hittites, namely the Chelubites and the Shuhites, to the former of which 
belonged the Rephaim and the Chanochites, Kaniengas or Mohawks, 
that included Hiawatha, the original founder of the League. The 
inscriptions, however, indicate that the Rephaim were of doubtful 
loyalty to the League, and appear to restrict the appellation Emim to 
the Shuhite branch of Ashteroth Kamaim, or of the two horns, in which 
Laadah and his son Mareshah were the chief figures. 
Mr. Forster’s 105 from the Wady Mokkateb illustrates the change of 
front of the Rephaim. 
