50 THEOPHILUS G. PINCHES, LL.D., M.R.A.S.. ON THE 
lL. R. Farnell, M.A., dwelling a good deal on that subject, with 
the different titles and vames of the gods or goddesses. I think 
that is pushed a little too far. I can agree with Hercules being 
identified with Samson of the Scriptures, but I do not see how you 
can identify Apollo, god of the sun, with Adonis, as doomed to 
spend six months in the shades of the nether regions, the Tammuz 
of Ezekiel’s vision wept for by Jewish women, and whom the 
poet Milton commemorates in the mention of the river of Syria, 
that ran red to the sea—really owing to the soil washed out of the 
mountains in its course, but according to the legendary account 
with the blood of Tammuz yearly slain. It is very likely that 
there are many points of contact between Hercules and Samson, 
and not only in one city, but in many, of Greece was there a local 
Heracles with minor differences of detail as regards the particular 
surnames and diversities of ritual. 
Mr. Pincues.—I have not much to say in reply, 
My object, this evening, was to place before you an account of 
what took place at the Congress for the History of Religions, and 
I have put down, as concisely as I could, the opinions of other 
people who, unfortunately, are not here to reply. 
With regard to the question whether Elishah of the Old Testa- 
ment is the Alasiya of the Tel-el-Amarna Tablets, that I am 
inclined to leave undecided. There is a great likeness between 
the two words, no doubt. The definition that is generally 
accepted by Assyriologists is that the Alasiya of the Tel-el- 
Amarna Tablets is the island of Cyprus. That, of course, is very 
possible, but some hold it to be not proven. 
Mention was made by Mr. Rouse of the word Javan being used 
tor Greece by the Persians. In the Assyrio-Babylonian inscriptions 
the common word for Greece is Yawannu. Professor Sayce 
thought he had found another form in the Tel-el-Amarna Tablets ; 
but it requires more proof. 
I am in doubt, referring to another point raised by Mr. Rouse, 
whether the Habiri are the Hebrews or not, and I am equally in 
doubt whether it means the confederates. It is supposed to be 
represented by the characters sa-gas, and in that case it is written 
ideographically. In this case it would be more logical to apply it 
to a number of wandering tribes than to the Hebrews. But still 
it is necessary to admit that it is not certain that sagas is the 
equivalent of Habarv. 
