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Achuzam. Of tliis, however, I am not certain. Pilku, a city of Sheth, 

 connects with him. Ashchur is also the head of the Tyndaridae, 

 who, with Helena Dendritis, are of Tentyra or Denderah, in Egypt. 

 These are the Anaktes, taking their name, with many designations of 

 Spartan monarchs and others, from the Anakim of Palestine. In 

 the war of Theseus with the Dioscuri, Aidoneus is allied with the 

 latter, he being Achuzam, who is also Aegeus, an ancient hero, the 

 ancestor of the Spartan Aegidae. In the Phix form of his name he 

 is also Phegeus, the father of Sparton. But he is likewise, with the 

 prefix of the Arabic ai'ticle Lacedaemon, the son of Jupiter and 

 Taygete, the latter word coming from Tekoa. His son Jehaleleel is 

 the Spartan Lelex, whose daughter Therapne is the same as Therar 

 phone, daughter of Dexamenus, or his father Achuzam. Therapne or 

 Theraphone I believe to be daughter neither of Achuzam nor of 

 Jehaleleel, but of Etam, and the wife of the eldest son of JSTaarah, her 

 true name being Zelelponi. Perieres, the Lacedaemonian, who is 

 made a son of Aeolus, is, I am persuaded, the same person, being the 

 Aila or Paruravas of the Indian story. Hepher is represented bv 

 the god or hero Sebrus, honoured in Sparta, and may very probably 

 be the same as (Ebalus and Aphareus — the latter name, however, 

 connecting perhaps with Ophrah, the son of Meonothai. Ketoessa, a 

 term applied by Homer to Lacedaemon, shows the Hittite connection 

 of its popvilation. Amyclas and Amyclae are famous Laconian names 

 which exhibit the Amalekite relationship of the Lacedaemonians. 



Messenia exhibits many points of connection with the family of 

 Hepher. 



Elis seems to be pre-eminently the land of Jehaleleel, who is Eleus, 

 king of the Epei, Epeus himself being, I think, Jabez. Achuzam 

 is, as we have seen, Augeas, son of Helios and Naupidame, a kind 

 of Nephthys. His son Phyieus or Jehaleleel is represented as aiding 

 Dexamenus against Hercules, Dexamenus being simply his own father 

 Achuzam. Meges, called son of Phyieus, is Mesha, father of Ziph, 

 whose name survives in the Typaeus mountain. Achuzam's name also 

 remained in the Caucones, lasus, to whose share that part of Greece 

 fell, and the city Cyoesium. The Selleis and Enipeus respectively 

 recall Jehaleleel and Anub, while Ephyra gives us a reminiscence of 

 Hepher. 



Arcadia takes its name from the family of Jerachmeel, but that of 

 Ashchur occupies an important place in its history. Ashchur him- 



