1898-99.| THE OLDEST WRITTEN RECORDS OF THE LEAGUE OF THE IROQUOIS. 267 
In English : 
“ Written notice: under Tirhanah and Tabor, (Sheber) the deceased 
chief Kentub superintended the scribes.” 
_ Sheber and Tirhanah were real personages, as were Gwr-Theyrn and 
Gwr-Thefyr, about whom British history is all astray chronologically, 
Why then may not Catigern, called the son of Gwr-Thevrn, not be as 
real, and the Shade-karonyes of Iroquois tradition? He was not, 
however, a Kubeku as they were, but a Nondewa or Nanda of the 
Mentuhoteps. In these ancient days the ancestors of our Iroquois were 
truly kings of men. Chief among them was Tekarihoken, whose name 
stands at the head of the League founders. The tradition about his 
being a Canienga is at fault, for he must have been Sargon of Agade, 
the eldest son of Yahdai, and thus a Zuzimite, Kubeku, or Cayuga. 
His original name Regem (I. Chron. ii. 47) is the Japanese rzkimz 
strength, power, authority, but the Chaldean form Sar-ruykin gives 
Tekarihoken. 
