THE EASTERN" ORIGIN OF THE CELTS. 303 



given reasons for supposing that Mahalah married into tlie family of 

 Etam or Abi-Etam, whom I identified with Athamas and Amphi- 

 damas. The eldest son of Etam was Jezi-eel, or Jezregel if the 

 power of the medial ayin is made prominent. With the prefix of 

 the Coptic article, Jezreel becomes Pterelaus, and he was the father 

 of Oomsetho. "* But, as I have stated in a previous paper, the 

 Chaldean Jezregel was Kurigalzu, and he, by Mr. George Smith, is 

 made the father of the Babylonian Milisihu.^^" I am justified, there- 

 fore, in believing that, when the history of Milisihu is recovered 

 from the tablets, the tragical story of Mahalah will appear to the 

 world as the original of all the legends concerning Melcartus, Meli- 

 corta, Meleager, Meilanion, Milo, Tmolus, Megacles, Amphilochus 

 and Melanippus. ^■^*'* Glaucus and Tritsea, in Acliaia, add Chalcol 

 and Darda to the other Zimrite traces of that state. '^°t 



Arcadia evidently at some time had a Cymric population. They 

 left behind them Sciathus, Asseatis and Acidus, Agra, Amilus, 

 Malsea, Malsena, Molossus and Megalopolis, -(Slmonia, Aminius, 

 (Echalia aiid Callise, Trachys and Thyreum. Thamyris was asso- 

 ciated with the (Echalia of Arcadia as well as with that of Thessaly, 

 or, in other words, both of these reproductions of an ancient seat of 

 the Zimri in the East preserved the memory of the ancestral poet 

 and sage. The name of Heman appears in Arcadia as Eusemon, 

 who is called a son of Lycaon or Beth-Lechem. I have already 

 drawn attention to the remai-kable Greek word Epikouros, meaning, 

 like Abiezer, the helper, while it bears to it a close resemblance in 

 form. The Latin Ajutor presents also a perfect transliteration of 

 Jaazer in Gilead. Apollo Epikouros was worshipped in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Phigalia, and he was honoured with the sacrifice of a 

 boar on Mount Lyc^eus.^^^ The Arcadian Orchomenos has many 

 links to unite it with that of Bceotia, and the Actors who are asso- 

 ciated with its history are Ezers of the Zimri. Elis contributes 

 Pisatis, another Pisidia, Acidon, Omphalium and Amphidoli, Scollis 

 and Dorium. Another ffichalia and another Dorium, v.'ith Thuria, 

 in Messenia, illustrate the story of Thamyris. Laconia, a Doric 



119 Apollodori ii. , iv. 5, viii. 1. 



120 Records of the Past, v. 85 note. The Primitive History of the lonians. Canad. Journal, 

 Vol. xiv., Nos. 5 and 6. 



120* Is it possible that the name of Mahalah connects with the Pictish Meilochon, meaning 

 the seducer of virgins. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary, Dissertation, 

 isof Eumelus once more appears in connection with Glaucus. Paus., vii. 18. 

 isi Pausan. viiL 41. 



