54 BABYLONIAN LITERATURE. 



Oceibia ascribes expressly to the Sabians 

 the notion that Seth taught the art of 

 medicine, and that he had received it as 

 an heritage from Adam. 1 



Akhuukha (U~y.rU) or Hanukha (U-yr^) 2 is 

 Enoch. 3 Ibn-Abi- Oceibia, drawing from 

 Sabian sources, calls Enoch (-l^oJ). 4 We 

 know the part of " inventor" which this 

 patriarch filled of old. The Arabs, also 

 following these Sabian traditions, identify 

 him with Hermes. 5 No doubt the Baby- 

 lonian Akhnukha, often quoted in the same 

 line with Armisa, is the legendary Enoch, 

 who rises into such high favour towards 

 the commencement of our era. 



Anuha, the Canaanite (U-yl), 6 another of 



1 See Herbelot Bibl. Orient, art. Sheith. We find traces of the 

 Sethians even lower ; see Chwolson's Ssabier, II. p. 269. 



2 Page 99, note. 



3 Banqueri has noticed, I. p. 9, that Adam, Enoch, etc., are 

 mentioned in every page of Ibn-el-Awwam. 



4 "Journal Asiatique," August-Sept., 1854, pp. 185, 187. 



5 Ibn-Abi-Oceibia, "Journal Asiatique," August-Sept., 1854, 

 pp. 185, 189. 



6 Akhnukha must not be confounded with Anuha. The or- 

 thography of the two words is different, and in one passage, the 

 two names are quoted as distinct, following one another (p. 62, 

 95, note). 



