CHAP. Xlir. HAM, KHEM, MIZRAIM. 26l 



Pantheon*, and is as little worthy of credit as the 

 statement he afterwards makes respecting an occur- 

 rence in the Mendesian nome ; where he also states 

 that "the Goat and the God Pan both have the 

 name Mendes in the Egyptian language." The 

 description of the God worshipped at Panopolis, 

 given by Stephanus of Byzantium t, accords exactly 

 with the Egyptian Pan, or Khem, which the learned 

 Prichard has supposed to be " Osiris or Horus," 

 and it is Khem, and not Mendes, to whom belong 

 the attributes of the God of Generation. 



The Hebrew word Ham is identical with tlie 

 Egyptian Khem, Qn being properly written Khm, 

 Kham, or Khem ; and is the same which the 

 Egyptians themselves gave to their country, in 

 the sculptures of the earliest and latest periods. 

 The Bible also applies to Egypt the name of 

 Mizraim (or Mitzrim), a dual or plural word, 

 which, as I have before observed!, seems to refer 

 to the two regions of Egypt, the Upper and Lower 

 country, over which the Pharaohs are always said 

 in their regal titles to hold dominion. It is, how- 

 ever, remarkable that the word itself docs not 

 occur in hieroglyphics, though traced in the mo- 

 dern name Musr or Misr, by which both Cairo 

 and Egypt are known at this day. 



According to the scriptural account§ of the peo- 

 pling of the world by the sons of Noah, it appears 



* Vide infra, Mantloo. 



■f Stephanus says, " Ecrn Kai rov Gsor ayaX/xa ^ityu, opOuiKov (%"''' '■" 

 aicoiop' (Tcaipti Ti fiaanyag ry ^ttiif. nf\i)vy, i]r ii^wXov (pantv etvai rov 

 rirti'a." Voc. riai'Of -oXiQ. Vide I'ricliaril, p. 120. 



J Vide supra. Vol. I. p. 2. § Gen. x. G. 



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