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and Phoenicia and the Etruscan Tages. He is also lacchos, Saon or 

 Saus, and Cosmos, these being forms of Jasion, the brother of Dar- 

 danus, heroes already identified with Achuzam and Zereth. The 

 connection of Jasion with Alea — ^like that of Buddha and Ila — taken 

 together with the name of Aleo, one of the Cabirian family, the 

 identification of Axiokersus and Pluto, and the relation of father and 

 son sustained by Jasion and Plutus respectively, give another con- 

 firmation of the descent of Jehaleleel from Achuzam. The wife of 

 Achuzam was a member of the family to which Jezreel, the god of 

 seed, belonged, and is appropriately called Ceres, although she was 

 most probably Zelelponi, the daughter of Etam. She is the Cabirian 

 or Grephyrean Ceres, and shows her relation to Achuzam by the 

 names Achaea, Azesia and Auxesia. Hermes or Casmillus with his 

 serpents appropi'iately forms part of the legend regarding her. Her 

 daughter Proserpine has been already united with the line of Ash- 

 cbur, and Tyche and Styx, the companions of this goddess, present 

 us with forms of Tekoa and Sydyk, or Achashtavi. In Etneus, who 

 is one of the Cabiri, the name of Ethnan, the you.ngest son of Ash- 

 chur by Helah, appears. The Pelasgian inhabitants of Samothrace 

 are simply the Philistines or Philisheth. Samothi-ace was originally 

 called Samos, doubtless from Sem or Achuzam. Naucratis of Egypt, 

 which took its name from Naarah, was called Samocratis, the Sem 

 form of her eldest son's name superseding in part her own. In the 

 Saon of Samothrace, which represents him, we may have the original 

 of the BeniShaon, whom we have found to be identical with the 

 Beni-Sheth of the Hebrew record. 



Tenedos must not be omitted even in this superficial enumeration 

 of the islands containing recollections of the Ashchurite families. Its 

 name is derived from Othniel, who is Tennes, son of Cycnus or 

 Kenaz. Leucophrys, an old name of the island, is Leophrah or 

 Legophrah, which we have already found to commemorate Ophrah, 

 of the line of Othniel. The hatchet of Tennes is his Egyptian sur- 

 charge. 



Cyprus in its very name represents Hepher, the head of the 

 Cabiri. Its family of Cinyrads preserved the memory of Kenaz, 

 and the rites of Adonis that of his son Othniel. The Teucer who 

 connects with its history is really Zochar, the son of Helah ; and 

 latnan, a name given to the island, may furnish a memorial of his 

 brother Ethnan. Cyprus and Egypt and Phoenicia were intimately 



