192 THE SHEPHERD KINGS OF EGYPT. 



great pyramid and those of succeeding monarchs. It would swell this, 

 paper to an imnecessary degree were I to state the many conjectures 

 which the history and geography of Egypt give rise to in connection, 

 with the names of the sons of Jehaleleel, or were I even to state the 

 many arguments by which the identity of Ziph, Suphis and Typhon 

 may be supported. I write for students of Egyptian history who. 

 liave the facts before them, and to whom what I have briefly indicated 

 will be amply sufficient to bring conviction of the truth. 



Having traced the line of Achuzam as far as Anub, the son of 

 Ziphah, we may return to investigate the relations of his brother- 

 Hepher with Egypt. Looking iirst at that part of the history which 

 is termed mythological and accounted most uncertain, we may find 

 some indications of his presence in the prophet Plu'asius from 

 Cyprus,*^ a supposition which I found more on the name of the 

 place whence he came that on that which he bears, for Cyprus, I 

 have little doubt, took its name from Chephe.r. He is certainly the 

 god Kheper, one of the eight, and the head of the Cabiri, who are of 

 Ptah Sokkari, his father. Pococke has correctly united the name 

 Cabir with the geographical appellation Cyprus.*® Cabar is an. 

 Egyptian name for Venus ; Astarte is called Kabir ; and the legends 

 place the birthplace of the Venus of the Greeks, who must not be 

 dissociated from them, in Cyprus. ^'^ We shall yet find the name of 

 Astarte intimately connected with the family of Ashchur. Another 

 mythical character relating to Egypt is Hyperion, whose city was 

 Heliopolis or On.** He is Hepher and the Sephres who has already- 

 been before us, the latter name being the Egyptian equivalent of the 

 Chaldean Sippara and Kirjath Seplier of Palestine, the city of the 

 book. On, the city of this Seplires, Hepher or Hyperion, was 

 appropriately the university of Egypt.*^ He has left many geographi- 

 cal monuments. Abaris of the Sethroitic nome is the unaspirated 

 form of Hepher, and need not have given much trouble to the 

 student of Josephus, for it is simply Chabrias, which Strabo places near 

 Pelusium, a word presenting the aspirated form of the same name. 

 All its surroundings are Ashchurite, such as Casium and Phacussa, 



••s He is connected with the story of Busirisas the adviser of that monarch in the matter of 

 human sacrifices. 



^8 Pococke, India in Greece, 220, &c. 



*^ Guigniaut, i. 833 ; Rawlinson's Herodotus, ii. 51, note. 



^ Tlie whole story of Hyperion, Cycnus, Phgethun, iStc, is Egyptian, .and loelongs to the ine- 

 of Hepher. : 



*' Pvawlinson's Herodotus, ii. 3,. note.. 



