256 THE SHEPHERD KINGS OF EGYPT. 



temporary of Aegialeus or Jelialeleel, and as connected with th& 

 Europa or Arba family, lie is Epliron, the son of Zohar, who ruled 

 in Kirjath Arba, which was known as Hebron. With his family, in 

 some way, the mother of Jabez, Apis or Epaphus is connected. The 

 greatest confusion appears in the Argive genealogies, yet, from the 

 fulness with which they are given, they may pi'ove useful in the work 

 of recovering the lost history of the Ashchurites, when from gene- 

 ralities we are able to come to particulars. The temple of Minerva 

 Saitidos, seen by Pausanius in Argolis, was a monument of old 

 Egyptian supremacy. The Satyrs and Curetes, who came of 

 Hecataeus and the daughter of Phoroneus, represent the sons of 

 Achashtaii and Zereth, Hecataeus being their elder brother 

 Achuzam. It is woi-thy of note that the deluge of Ogyges, which ■ 

 happened in the time of Phoroneus, who so far seems rather to be 

 Hepher than Ephron, has been attributed to Egypt. ^' Many Argive 

 names, both of persons and places, with that of Argos itself, connect 

 with the family of Jerachmeel, with which that of Ashchur was 

 originally related. 



Achaia, Sicyon, Corinth and Megara. — Achaia presents us with a 

 form of Aches or Hyksos or Achuzam. The same name survives in 

 those of Tisamenus and Ogyges, as well as in that of Dexamenus, 

 king of Olenus, whose father Oecias is but a repetition of himself. 

 Deianira. and Theraphone were the daughters of Dexamenus, and 

 these are the same as Deianira, daiighter of Bacchus, and Therapne 

 of Lelex. Helice and Aegialea represent Jehaleleel, the Philisheth 

 or Pelasgian. Helice recalls Helix, son of Lycaon, and connects 

 with Helicias, forked lightning, the Assyrian Khalkhalla and Latin 

 Elicius. Anax Andron, as a title of Achaean sovereignty, recalls 

 the Anakim. 



Sicyon is, I think, another form of Achazam's name ; and Oicles, 

 the son of the monarch so called, is Jehaleleel. They named ihe 

 Hys and Hyllean tribes respectively, while the Dymanes came of 

 Temeni. Pittheus is a Sicyonian Ptah or Phthius or Buddha.- 

 Aegialeus, the fouaider of Sicyonian monarchy, is, as we have already 

 seen, Jehaleleel ; Europs is some Arba or Hareph ; Apis, and 

 perhaps Epopeus, Jabez ; Aegyrus and Echyreus, an Egyptian Cheres;, 

 Messapus is probably Ziph ; and Marathus or Marasus Mareshah, 



27 See many authorities in Banter's Mythology and Fables Explained by History. London^ 

 1740. Vol. iiL p. 368, &c.. 



