232 THE SHEPHERD KINGS OP EGYPT. 



niaiit "witli Astarte. This is tlie old union of Zereth and Zoliar, or 

 of the Shairetaan and Tocchari, who are further combined as the 

 Zorus and Carchedon who founded the famous African city. Zereth 

 is Melcartus, the Certos or Gurudes of Egypt. Besides Carchedon 

 he is called Sardon, and is the son of Aser, being united in many 

 cases with the Sousim, who are of his brother Achuzam. In these 

 two names we find a reproduction of the HeVjrew and Egyptian 

 designations of the sous of Zereth, Oherethites and Shairetaan, Cretes 

 and Sardinians. The union of Melcartus and Astarte, and the 

 parentage which Cicero gives the former as a son of Jupiter and 

 Asteria,^^ serve to point out his relationship with the line to which 

 Achashtari belonged. From Zereth came the African word Syrtis 

 (coast of the Cherethites) and the name Tritonis, so extensively ap- 

 plied in Libya, where Auseans (Achuzam) and the Cinyps (Anub) 

 region are found. The many uses of the root Trit, as it appears in 

 the Sanskrit and other languages, agree w"ith its derivation from this 

 historical personage. We shall never find the true science of language 

 until we learn that it is an historical and not a natural science. 

 Triton, the trumpeter, is an application of the meaning of the word 

 Tekoa, a blast with a trumpet. A similar application we find in the 

 Egyptian law which forbade the sounding of a trumpet in certain 

 districts because of its association with the braying of the ass of 

 Sheth or Typhon. With Sardon, lolaus is connected, and this, with 

 similar historical facts, has made me question whether Jehaleleel, 

 who is plainly this lolaus, was the son of Achuzam or of Zereth. 



Zohar is the Phoenician Hercules. He and Carchedon founded 

 Carthage, and from him Tauchira of Cyrene derived its name. Tunes 

 and Tanit the goddess may commemorate Ethnan. The geography 

 of North Africa is altogether on the side of an Ashchurite migration 

 along its coast. Assures and Tisurus, Tiges and Tigisis, Auzea, 

 Igilgilis, Sibus and Sufes, Yabar, Zarytus, Thenae, Aggorsel, with 

 many similar names, recall Ashchur, Tekoa, Achuzam, Jehaleleel, 

 Ziph, Hepher, Zereth, Ethnan, Acharchel, &c. The Tangier inscrip- 

 tion cited by Procopius, which describes the people of that region as 

 refugees from lands in Palestine which had fallen before the arms of 

 Joshua, is not necessarily a myth, although I by no means assert its 

 substantial character. The origin which the Moors gave themselves 

 as the, descendants of the Sabeans of Arabia and of the sons of Abra- 



15 Ciceron. de Nat. Deor. iii. 16. : 



