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is also the Nabat, son of Koud, of Mohammed Mustapha. While 

 upon the line of Coz, I may state that Harum appears in the 

 Nabathean Agriculture as A.rmisa, being there associated with one 

 Aghathadimun, who is Achuzam, the eldest son of Ashchur. The 

 Greek Agathodsemon is as much a true rendering of the original as. 

 is the " Petticoat Jack " of sailors, of the Acadian French "Petit 

 Codiac." The Greeks found it necessary to give in their own 

 language the etymology of all names, geographical and personal, 

 whether these belonged to Hellas or to the Barbarian. The Yathreb 

 who descended from Kabiya of Mahlayel, according to Arab tradition, 

 must be Tliriphis, the Egyptian goddess, said to be united with 

 Khem, who gave her name to Athiibis in the Delta. 



Hepher, the second son of Ashchur, is represented by the region 

 of Kheybar in Hejaz, which, like Yatlxreb in the same province, was 

 founded by the Amalekites. Prom him also came the tribe Wabar, 

 belonging to the same stock as the families already mentioned. 

 Japhar, the Arabian monarch who follows Sacsac, might be Hepher 

 after Achiizam, or Epher the Midianite after Jokshan. The first 

 supposition is the most natural, although the order in which their 

 names appear would agree better with the latter. My sources of 

 information are too few to enable me to speak decidedly in regard to* 

 the descendants of this monarch, as their traces are found in Arabia 

 and its history. I am in doubt whether in Monat, who was wor- 

 shipped at Codayd, we have the names of Chathath and Meonothai 

 in the line of Kenaz, or of Jachath and Manahath the Horites. 



Temeni survives in the Thimanei of Pliny, and the Buthemanei of 

 Agatharchides, the Beni Temim of the Ai'abian geographers.'^ They 

 inhabited a great portion of Central Arabia, and seem to have in- 

 cluded the Temanites who descended from Eliphaz the son of Esau. 



Achashtari was no less celebrated among the tribes of the desert, 

 than among those of the Nile Talley. As Athtor, he answers to the 

 Chaldean Ishtar and the Ash tar or Sheth of the Shepherds. His 

 name likewise remained in the title of the planet Jupiter, Al Moshtari, 

 in which we recognize the head of the Mestraei. The Sabians wor- 

 shipped him under his abbreviated name, Seth, reverencing the 

 Egyptian pyramids of Gizeh as the tombs of this patriarch and his 

 sons Enoch and Sabi, the latter being the same as Sabus son of 

 Idris, and, I think, the Jabez of Chronicles. Seth is also represented 



7 Genesis Elucidated, by J. J. W. JervLs, A.B., Londoiij 1852.; page 39&. 



