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fatlier. This pre-eminently Scythian family I leave for another 

 paper. 



Armenia. — The history of Armenia is so slender that it is im- 

 possible to say much concerning its connections. Were I to trust to 

 mere verbal analogies, it would be easy to make a list of them. 

 Haig, one of the earliest of Armenian monarchs, is said to be the 

 same as Aeetes of Colchis.'*^ The latter, I think there is little doubt, 

 is Achuzam. The region of Phasiana with Ascura, the Taochi who 

 dwelt to the south of Sacasene, with Gordyene, Sophene and many 

 other places, are purely Ashchurite. As for Armenaeus, Araniaeus, 

 Harma and Aramus of Moses of Chorene who follow Haig, they 

 may, I think, represent Harum the father of Aharhel. It is not at 

 all im]5robable that the Armenians are Jerahmeelite. 



Caucasus. — This region, including the ancient Colchis, Iberia and 

 Albania, was considered at an early period to have relations with 

 Egypt, and particularly with its great ruler Sesostris or Achashtari. 

 Dioscurias and the Cyrus river commemorate Ashchur, while Taochir 

 is either a form of Tekoa or of Zohar. The name Khevsours, which 

 some of the modern Circassians give themselves, and that of their 

 Neptune, who is Seozeres, indicate an Ashchurite ancestry. Adighen, 

 the name of the race, recalls the Taochi and the people of Attikeh or 

 Tekoa. 



Caucasus itself is but a grander Casius, and is rightly connected 

 with such words as Asia, the Coptic Os, Persian Ized, Babylonian 

 Isi, and a host of other terms denoting royalty and deity, all of 

 which point to Achuzam, the son of Esar or Ashchur. The Phasis 

 flowing into the Black Sea, and the Casius into the Caspian, with 

 Sacasene, present the same word. Aeetes, although sometimes con- 

 founded with Jachath son of Alvan, the true solar hero, is Achuzam. 

 His son is Aegialeus or Jehaleleel, and this is the same person as 

 Salauces (Salatis), who, according to Pliny, defeated Sesostris, being 

 also the son of Aeetes. Phasis is allowed to be of the same origin as 

 Caucasus, and I have already asserted that it represents Achuzam. 

 There was a king Phasis, the son of whom was Colchos, the founder 

 of Colchis, which is a reminiscence of the Arabian or Palestinian 

 Halak, where Jehaleleel reigned. The Silsilis and Khalil of Egypt, 

 Alaka and Lokaloka of India, C.ilicia, lolchos of Thessaly, and the 



21 Guigniaut iii. 1050. 



