298 THE EASTERN ORIGIN OF THE CELTS, 



Eumelus, who is called the son of Admetus, but who is also made an 

 ancestor of Horner.^ Melia and Meles indicate, as does Mallus in 

 the case of Amphilochus, something of the true form of his name. 

 The Dryades, whose appellation has always been connected with the 

 oak, are called Meliadss, and belonged to Melia of Trachis.^ The 

 story of Thamyris the Thracian relates to (Echalia and Tricca. 

 Hestiseotis was a famous. Doric region, and from it descended the 

 Dymanes and Pamphylians.^ I can hardly think that the Dorians 

 were of Darda, although the memorials of the Zimri are to be found 

 largely in Doric ai-eas, and the love of swine was common to Dorians 

 and Druids. Dymanes and Pamphylians, representing Heman and 

 Mahalah, are called descendants of ^gimius, whom I have elsewhere 

 identified with the early Persian Achs&menes and with Ochime, the 

 husband of Hegetoria, from whom came Camirus.®' This personage 

 is Achumai the Horite, whom I have already made the real head of 

 the Dorian line. He was, I think, the father af Zerah, who manied 

 Keturah after the death of Abraham.** Zerah will thus be the head 

 of the Zorathites or Dorians, of whom the mythic King ^gimius was 

 the ancestor. The Myrmidons of ^monia, like the Mernmadse of 

 Lydia, connect the family of Mamre. As Asciamus, the Lydian 

 king who sent Ascalus to found Ascalon, has been shown by me to 

 be the sa.me as Achumai, Achsemenes, ^gimius and Ochime, we 

 properly find him synchronizing with the family to which Zimran 

 belonged.^ Epirus is far from deficient in traces of the Cymri. Such 



9* Strab. ix. 5. 



95 Soph. Phil. T25. 



sc HerodDt. i. 56. Mijller's Dorians, it.. T6. 



97: The Horites, Canad. Journal, Vol. xiii. No. 6. 



98 As I have identified Achumai with iE^yptus, we must flEd in Zeraeh, or, as his name would 

 ■be in Greeli, Kerali, the Cerc»stes who is called his son. He is also the Egyptian god Harlja 

 united with Ehem, and, better still, the son of Amenemes the namer of Coptos, whom Mr. 

 Osburn gives as Cherucheres; Amenemes, the son and successor of AehthoeSj is Achumai, the 

 son of Jachath., 



99 Since AscpIus or Eshcol was^a general, or, at any rate-, a tributary of Achumai, Aoiamus 

 or Amenemes, it is not surprising that tlie son of the latter should marry Keturah after the 

 death of Abraham, seeing thafe she was EschoFs sister. An important Egyptian date is afforded! 

 us in, the association of these names, by which we are able to arrive at the period when Egyptian 

 monarchy began and at the same time its mythology.. 



about 2000 B.C. Shobal, Ssb or SebeK 



I 

 about 1960 B.C. Eeaiah or Ea 



I 

 about 1920 B.C. Jachath or Actoes 



about 18S0 B.C. Achumai or Karnes 



about 1850 B.C.. Zeraoh osr Cherucheres=Ketur3h or Hegetoria 



I 

 Ethan 



The Arabian historians nsike Ascalus a man of Ludim. liahad or Ljdjis was thebrotheEOf 



Achumai. 1 Chron. iv. 2. 



