294 THE EASTERN ORIGIN OF THE CELTS. 



col.'^ Pococke has well set forth that the name Calchas and all the 

 associations of that hero point him out as a Buddhist priest.'^ Tlie 

 character for wisdom and the skill in gnomic poetry attributed to 

 Amphiaraus, Amphilochus, Calchas and Tiresias, clearly indicate that 

 in their history the Greek writers preserved part of the story of Zim- 

 ran, Mahalah, Chalcol and Darda." In Paphlagonia, the same family 

 appears. Gazora reproduces Ezer ; Timoleum, Mahalah ; Domanitis, 

 Timonitis and the Amnias, Heman; and Callichorus, Chalcol. Gala- 

 tia recalls Ishod in Vasada; and it will be remembered that Josephus 

 unites Galatia with Gomer. Phrygia presents us with Thymbrium and 

 Amorium, Isauria and Achara, Melissa, Il^acoleia and Philomelium, 

 which is Abel Meholah, Eumenia, Glaucus and Cillexuga, Trogitis 

 and Tyriseum. Midseum once more connects the Midianites. Bithy- 

 nia, a settlement of Bedan, shows that Celt and Cymri rarely parted 

 company. Thymbrius and Smyrdiana, Astacenus, Astacus or Nico- 

 media, Posidseum, Aminias and Callica give Zimran, Ishod and the 

 two elder sons of Mahalah. Thymbrius in Pisidia and Chimsera in 

 Lycia are alike memorials of Zimran. Pisidia, Isauria and Milyas 

 in proximity, were tracts bearing the names of his three sons.'^^ As 

 Hei-odotus informs us that the Pamphylians were the people of 

 Amphilochus and Calchas, we must find in Pamphylia the name 

 Mahalah, with the prefix of the Coptic article.''^ Amblada in Pisidiii 

 and Melas in Pamphylia are other forms of the same name. In ad- 

 dition to Pisidia itself, which precedes Ishod with the Coptic article 

 also, he was celebrated in Side of Pamphylia and Isionda of Lycia,. 

 The Agrioteri pal us of Pisidia may be added to Isauria as a record of 

 Ezer. Hanona and Darsa in Pisidia, with the Glaucus of Lycia, per- 

 fect the Zimrite record in Heman, Chalcol and Darda. 



In Caria, Zimran, I«hod and Mahalah are found as Thymbria, 

 Pystus, Posidium, Miletus and Mylasa. In Lydia, Sinyrna, near 

 which ran the Meles and to the back of which rose Tmolus, has been 

 identified by Mr. Hyde Clarke as a Sumerian city.'^ Ephesus also 

 was called Samornia, deriving its chief name doubtless from Epliah, 



■ 75 strab. xiv. 1, 27. 



'*> India in Greece, 249. 



" Banier, iv. 204. 



"* The Milyffi, or descendants of Mahalah, were Lyoians, as belonging to the family nf 

 Lechem ; and Solymi, since Salraa was the head of that house. Beth Millo in Shechem, whe i* 

 a Shalem was found, may have been an early tribe of Milyte. 



78 Herodot. vii. 91. 



" Researches, &c., 43. 



