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of wliicli is the relation existing between Midas (Midian) and Gordius 

 (Zereth) as father and son. 



The name of Jehaleleel, the son of Achuzam, survives in the 

 Alihiei of Diodorus/ the Beni Halal of Bochart.^ The name indicates 

 the moon as lord of the night, and appi-opriately connects with 

 Ashchur or Shachar, the darkness. The deity whom Herodotus 

 assigns appropriately to the Arabs of this family is Alilat.'^ She was 

 a female deity, and was worshipped, like Al Uzza, at Nakhla, which 

 preserves the name in a different form. Kulal is the masculine god, 

 or husband of Ilahat, and is sometimes called Ila. Dhu-Kolosa, 

 Dhu-Kela or II, represent a solar deity, who is Alvan the son of 

 Shobal, the Dhu being doubtless a form of Div or demon, such being 

 the title of the Horite leaders and princes. Seleyyel, in Central 

 Arabia, must be a reminiscence of the son of Achuzam, who has him- 

 self left his memorial in Kasseem close at hand. I have already 

 directed attention to Yasin as Achuzam among historical personages. 

 His son Alyas is Jehaleleel. He is also Wayel, the son of Ghazahadj 

 or Himyar, tiie same individual as Walid, son of Azd, who, at the 

 head of his Amalekites, conquered Egypt, the latter foi-m of his name 

 giving the Alitis or Salatis of the Shepherds. Another Arabian 

 name connecting with Jehaleleel is Mali lay el, called a son of Aram 

 of Shem, the Aram being an interpolation, and the Shem a form of 

 Achuzam, inasmuch as he also is made an Amalekite. We sliall 

 find in Persian history, which has necessarily much of Arabian 

 tradition mingled with it, this name of Mahlayel or Mahaleleel 

 reappearing as a form of Jehaleleel. 



The eldest and principal son of Jehaleleel is Ziph. The region 

 known as Tayf or Djouf, where AUat was worshipped, and which 

 connects geographically with Seleyyel, Kasseem, Kheybar and similar 

 Ashchurite names, with the divinities Uzza and Nakhla, commemo- 

 rates him. He, and not Achumai son of Jachath, the Horite (whom 

 I, by a somewhat natural mistake, identified with Cheops or Kufu), 

 is the Kabus who follows Al Walid or Salatis. He is also Kabiya, 

 the son of Mahlayel, from a child of whom Yathreb obtained its 

 name. Yembua in Hejaz retains the memory of his nephew Anub, 

 who is the Yanbu Shadh of Arab story ; the Cush of Ham, who 

 appears in connection ^vith him, being really Coz of Ammon. This 

 Anub is the Nabit of Dimeshki, whose ancestry is thus given. He 



i Diod. Sic. iii, 22.' & Phaleg. ii. i9. 6 Herodot. iiL 8. 



