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Achuzam is geographically represented by the Cossaei of Chiiz or 

 Susiana, of which at one time a certain Alias was king, and in the 

 north-east by the region of Oxiana, the Asoa which the Chrouicon 

 Paschale affirms was colonized from Egypt.'^' The Grhizneh of the 

 Shah ISTameh is the same as Ghizeh of Egypt and Ghassan of Syria, 

 and perhaps the Philistine Gaza. The Euacae or Persian cavalry of 

 Arrian"* connect with the Arabian horse deity Yauk, the Indian 

 Yakshas, the Puiiic Susim and the Egyptian Hycsos. The River 

 Oxus at once recalls the Axius or Typhon of Syria and many similar 

 names of streams in different parts of Europe, Asia and Africa. I 

 cannot doubt that Ogyges, Oceanus and like terms, which have been 

 associated with these names, originated with the eldest son of Ash- 

 chur. Poseidon, the god of the horse and of the sea, will yet appear 

 as a member of the Tekoaite family. Among historical personages, 

 Achuzam is Yessun Ajam, one of the earliest Persian monarchs. He 

 founded the Yassanian, dynasty, and his son and successor was 

 Gilshah, who -was called Ubul Muluk or Abimelech. He is Jehaleleel 

 and Abimelech king of Gerar. His Ashchurite descent appears fj-om 

 his styling himself Uboo-Busheei', the latter word giving ns back 

 Busiris and the Bushur of Bushur Asshur. He was the inveterate 

 enemy of the Devs or Horites of Shobal, Confirmation of the 

 identity of Gilshah and Jehaleleel is found in the tradition given by 

 Mirkhond, that his successor Houcheng was Mahalaleel, and in the 

 statement of Tabari that Gilshah was the son of the same antedilu- 

 vian. The truth lies between the two, Gilshah being, as Jehaleleel, 

 this same Mahalaleel, the son of Achuzam or Yessun Ajam. An 

 important point in history is given us in this identification, taken 

 along with tlie fact that Ephron, tlie son of Zoliar, ruled in Hebron 

 or Kirjath Arba at the same period in the life of Abraham. We 

 learn that Salatis, prior to his invasion of Egypt, was the contem- 

 porary of the Hebrew patriarch, and that the dawn of history com- 

 mences some two generations earlier. The names Kaiomers and 

 Hamyer, so often applied to this monarch, I have not been able to 

 identify with any title borne by him., but I believe that their appli- 

 cation in his case and that of his father is due to the same cause as 

 that which gives us Electra for the mother of Jasion and Dardanus, or 

 Achuzam and Zereth. Jokshan and Achuzam, as language became 



17 Galloway. Egypt's Record of Time to the Exodus of Israel, 221. 



18 Arrlani Anab - Alex. vh. 6, 3. 



