314 THE EASTERN ORIGIN OF THE CELTS. 



logy, and another famous giant Gymir, must represent Zimran. Tlie 

 1 itter married Aurboda, a kind of Arriplie or Eripliyle, and had a 

 daughter Gerda, the Critheis of the Homeric legends."" Still another 

 Zimrite name appears in Hymir the fisherman, who should rather 

 have been Jokshan the brother of Zimran, seeing that his name 

 means " the nets," and is the original, in as far as Hebrew is an 

 original language in etymology, of the Greek Diktuon, meaning the 

 same thing. "^ Miolnir, a name of Thor, may possibly connect with 

 Mahalah. I do not know wh(>ther Tuisto, father of the German 

 Mannus, designates Ishod or not. Heman the son of Mahalah, or, 

 better still, Meonothai son of Abiezer, may represent Mannus. 

 Mimir, who deprived Odin of his eye, I have already associated 

 through the legends of Codes and others representing Eshcol, with 

 Mamre, the uncle of Zimran."^ Oxylus, one of these one-eyed 

 heroes, exhibits his Gileadite relationships in being called the son of 

 Mars and Protogenia, the daugliter of Calydon}"^^ Similarly Zimran, 

 as Tmbrius, is the son of ^gyptus and Caliande, and, as Ampheres, 

 of JSTepttme and Clito. The Scandinavian Gladsheimer was in all 

 probability a reminiscence of a Gileadite or Celtic region. Fortu- 

 nately for the reception of the fact of a Germanic connection of 

 Gileadites and Cymri, the character of the Cimmerians, as either 

 distinctively Celtic or Germanic, has never been settled."* The 

 explanation of this uncertainty is found in the Germanic education 

 of a portion of the Cymric stock which entered Europe from Asia. 

 We may naturally expect these Asiatic Zimri to reproduce in their 

 mythology and language some of the features characteristic of Greek 

 culture and tradition ; ^while the African Zimri of Spain, Gaul and 

 Britain, should possess elements in common with the Latins and 

 other Italian peoples. 



Besides the thi-ee Cymric tides which overflowed Europe, two of 

 which came from Africa and one from Asia, there were at least two 

 others that spread over parts of Asia and Africa respectively. One 

 of these we have traced through Persia and India to the borders of 

 China, and the other we left in Ethiopia. Both of these might 



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173 He is also called the son ot H»moD, who must be Heman. 



■1'* Rawlinson's Herodotus, App. Book iv., Essay 1. Mallet's Antiquities, 6S note. 



