236 THE SHEPHERD KINGS OF EGYPT. 



con-upted, were confused ; and Zimran, the elder brother of Jokshan. 

 who was the head of the Cymri, Smyrneans, Homeritae, &c., and a 

 great prince in his day, was confounded, in like manner, with 

 Jehaleleel and Achuzam, who were, probably, his uncle and grand 

 father. The Persians, as Cephenes, doubtless descended in part from 

 Ziph or Cepheus, and the name of this son of Jehaleleel sui-vives in. 

 those of the desert of Khiva and the Caspian Sea, with many more 

 in other parts of the Persian Empire. 



Of Hepher and his son Kenaz the names of Pecheng and Apher- 

 esiab may possibly be an inversion. The dynasty of the Ashkanees 

 should belong to this line, and the Gabrs or fire worshippers might 

 easily have taken their title from the head of a family noted for its 

 devotion to the sun's disc. Khafr, in the province of Pars, must be 

 a memorial of this son of A shchur, and the old kingdom of Khawer, 

 so often mentioned in the Shah Nameh and other records of ancient 

 times, doubtless took its name from him long before it was given to 

 Cyprus. His descendants in the line of Seraiah were the Chorasmii, 

 or people of Chorassan, who in many ways may be proved to be the 

 progeny of Joab, the father of the valley of the Charashim. To 

 follow siich investigations at length, however, would swell this paper 

 to a large volume, without materially increasing the evidence for the 

 Ashchurite connection of the Shepherd kings. 



Temeni survives in Persian stoiy as the giant Temendous or 

 Temendonus with a hundred arms, whom Gilshah defeated and drove 

 to Oman. This at once recalls the Arabian Thimanei. The fiible of 

 the Centirnani Ave shall yet find to be intimately connected with the 

 legends of the Ashchurites, the very Greek word hekaton coming from 

 Achuzam, he being the original Aegaeon to whom is sometimes given 

 the name of Briareus, which is an Egyptian form of Jehaleleel. 



We have already seen that the very word Achashtari is Persian, 

 and denotes royalty in that language. Kisdar, Hashterkhan and 

 Asterabad are names of places derived from it. Tashter is the 

 mythological personage who represents the yovmgest son of Naai'a'h. 

 In the Bundehesch his story is that of Xisuthrus, and he is the son 

 of Ahura Mazda. The Typhonian connections of Zohak and his 

 relations to the Ceto or Dercetides (Hittites and Ashterathites) make 

 it difficult to exclude him from the family of Ashchur, and in par- 

 ticular from that of Achashtari. Yet I cannot see my way to disjoin 

 iMm from the Horite stock or dissociate his name from that of 



