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geographical memorials of the same Cepheus or Ziph. Minerva 

 Alea and Skii-as unite the memory of Jehaleleel and Ashchur with 

 the rites of the goddess, whose Latin name may be a form of Naarah.^** 

 Phigalia and Bucolion, both of which are Arcadian, may, as Hitzig 

 has suggested, preserve the fame of Phichol, the chief captam of the 

 ■army of Abimelech or Jehaleleel. Hepher may, with the prefix of 

 the Arabic article, be Alipherus son of Lycaon, whose name is 

 identical with the Chaldean Alapar and the Italian Liparus, son of 

 Auson. "We have already found Temeni in Temenus, called the son 

 of Phegeus. The history of Achashtari evidently does not belong to 

 Arcadia. Yet the Arcadian Styx, who married Pallas or Pu-as, may 

 furnish a missing link in the connections of the Ashchurite family, 

 giving to Jehaleleel a daughter of Achashtari or Sydyk as his wife. 

 Zereth survives in an Arcadian Zerethra, reproducing the region of 

 that name in Egypt and the coast of the Cherethites. He is also 

 Corethon, son of Lycaon, and Corythus of Tegea, who is said to have 

 come of Jasion and Cei'es. Still another name for him is Gortys, son 

 of Tegeates. The Typhonian character of Ai'cadia's population is too 

 well known to require comment. 



Argos presents many points of agi'eement in its early history with 

 that of Arcadia. Achuzam is the Argive Phegeus, who is also 

 Aezeus, lasus, Acasus, Acassus or Ecbasus.^^ In lasus Mr. Glad- 

 stone has found a name Phoenician, Egyptian and Pelasgian.^® 

 Inachus, his father, is the head of the Anakim, and Melia, his 

 mother, but translates the Ash, which comes out fully in the Scandi- 

 navian Askr. The Achaean Argos is Argos lasum ; and rightly so, 

 for lasus and Achaeus both designate Achuzam. Achaetis and 

 Phthius appear appropriately in the Argive family with Temenus, 

 Asterius, Aeropus and Europus, Haemon and Ammon, Aegialeus 

 and Pii-as, Messon and Mycene, Apis and Epaphus, Asopus and 

 Psophis, Tiryns, Hermion, Sthenelas, Agenor, Echephron and a host 

 of other Ashchurite names, denoting Achuzam, Temeni, Achashtari, 

 Arba, Ammon, Jehaleleel, Mesha, Jabez, Ziph, Tiria, Harum, 

 Othniel, Kenaz and Ephron. Phoroneus, as the inventor of letters, 

 may perhaps be Hepher ; but I incline to the belief that, as the con- 

 st* Witli this Skiria the use of the umbrella in the ritual of Buddhism is connected. 

 25 Schubart, Quaestiones Genealogicee Historiese iB Antiq.uitatem Heroicam Greecam. Mar- 

 iburg, 1832. Fascic. Prim. Argolica, p. 39^ &o, 

 ^5 Juyentus Mundi, 88. ' 



