286 THE EASTERN ORIGIN OF THE CELTS. 



decorations in other lands.^^ The Tirttakas, a religions sect, may 

 have been Darda's descendants, and an early class of Druids.^* Cer- 

 tain it is that Druids and Buddhists alike held the doctrine of 

 metempsychosis and other beliefs, which have led many writers to 

 associate them equally with the philosopher Pythagoras. The learned 

 Davies has not hesitated to associate Druidism with what he knew , 

 of Buddhism.^ 



Following the course adopted in the last paper, we I'eturn to the 

 basin of the Tigris and Euphrates. In Chaldea, Zimran was repre- 

 sented by Camarina or Gomereek; his son Abiezer by Abn-Shahrein ; 

 and his grandson Darda by Teredon or Diridotis. Babylonia fur- 

 nishes Tliamara, the Naliar Malcha, Issedea, Sittace, Otris, Teredata 

 and Dorista. Assyria is more full, for it was the home of the 

 Sumerians. There we find Sumere, Samaran, Gomara, Saccada or 

 the Sakad of Ptolemy, Aturia, Meso-Pylse or Mosul, Calchas and 

 Chalachene, Dartha and Dura. In Mesopotamia appear Himeria, 

 Qmbrse, Semiramidis, Saccada, Auxaris, the Mailii, Achaiakala, Cse- 

 cilium, Dura, Dadara, and Daradax. Turning frona geographical to 

 juythological and historical evidences, the great Sumerian family 

 seems to exhibit its ancestry in the lists of Bar Hebrseus and other 

 chroniclers.^® There we discover among the earliest monarchs, 

 Nmrud, Cambirus, Smirus or Smii-m, Zmarus and Semiramis, setting 

 forth Zimran, unless Nmrud be a form of the name of his uncle 

 Mamre. These must represent the so-called Medians or Midianites, 

 who at an early period ruled in Chaldea. In other lists appear such 

 names as Ascatades, Ephecheres, Mancaleus, replaced by Ascalius 

 and preceded by M-amithus, who may have been Eshcol and Mamre, 

 Mamylus and Amyntes, who, as Heman, properly succeeds Ascat- 

 ades.^' Berosus seems to have known Mahalah ia Amelon and Heman 

 in Amenon, his successor, while Darda may have been his Euedores- 

 chus.^^ .The uncommon name Chalcol is preserved in full in Khal- 

 khalla, a surname of Nin or Bar.^* Enyalius will yet appear as 



33 Hardy, 2S1. It was also called Mela, and was a girdle. 



34 lb. 275, &c. 



35 Celtic Researches and British Druids. Vide Higgin's Celtic Druids. Pococke, India in 

 Greece, 102, associates the Druids with Buddliisni. 



2s Cory's Ancient Fragments. In support of the Eshool connection, it is worthy of note that 

 Semiramis was of Ascalon. 



37 Du Pin, Blbliothdque des Historiens, Amsterdam, 211, Sic. 



38 Ap. Euseh. Chron. 



39 Eawlinson's Herodotus, App. Book L, Essay 10. 



