252 THE SHEPHERD KINGS OP EGYPT. 



Bassareus, the father of the first Bacchus, or Achuzam. Neaera, the 

 so-called wife of Helius, and Moira, who unites with Tyche, repre- 

 sent Naarah. The Greek word answering to Achuzam is Ktema, 

 signifying, like the Hebrew, possession. Ctimenus is thus a Greek 

 form of Achuzam. He is Zeus Casius and Acesias, or the healer, 

 connected with the myth of Hercules at Accho, and united with 

 laso. Hades is an abbreviated Athothian form of his name, as 

 appears in its synonym Agesander. He is also Ixion, a man of the 

 horse, whom, according to Tzetzes, a Pharaoh expiated for the com- 

 mission of a crime similar to that of the Persian Zohak and the 

 Indian Ajasat. The horse connection appears again in Pegasus, the 

 same as Phix and Phakus, as well as in Augeas of the stables, whose 

 son Phyleus is Jehaleleel. The Latin equus preserves the Arabic 

 Yauk and the Hyksos, whom Raoul Rochette made the authors of 

 'Greek civilization. Besides Phyleus, we also find synonyms for 

 .Jehaleleel in Eol, the son of Poseidon, and in Acelis, Agelaus, 

 •Cleolaus and Hyllus, sons of Hercules, who mvxst be Sem Hercules 

 •or Hercules Assis. Agelaus also is the son of Ixion. Poseidon may 

 represent Achuzam ; at any rate he is a member of the Ashchurite 

 family, among whom, in the line of Helah, we find the men of the 

 sea, as in that of Naarah we find the horsemen of antiquity. 

 Cephalus, father or ancestor of Tithonus or Phaethon, Cycnus, &c., is 

 Hepher^ the father of Kenaz and grandfather of Othniel. Temenus, 

 son of Pelasgus, is Temeni. Hitzig has demonstrated the national 

 unity of Philistines and Pelasgians. They are the people of Sheth 

 or Achashtari, and he is Astraeus the Titan, husband of Eos, the 

 daughter of Hyperion, or Hepher his brother. Zereth is Ti'iton, and 

 Taras the son of Poseidon. I now proceed to analyze the mythology, 

 geography and early history of the various states of Hellas, for the 

 purpose of showing the vast preponderance of the Ashchurite family 

 in their populations and traditions. 



Laconia. — In Laconia, as in Crete, a union of Horite and Ashchur- 

 ite traditions apiDears.^* Ashchur himself gave his name, as we have 

 seen, to the Dioscuri, the chief of whom, Castor, was his son 

 Achashtari. As for Pollux or Polydeukes, he is no son of Ashchur, 

 and must, I think, be Jehaleleel, the son of Achashtari's elder brother 



2* Laconia has important connections with the family of Bethlehem, the head of which was 

 Salma, and of which I think Helah, the wife of Ashchur, was a member. To this family of 

 Lachm the Lycians, Lycaonians, with, I believe, Amalek (the Laconian Amyclas) belonged, 

 Arcadia has also Bethlehemite relations in Lycaon. 



