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the father of Hebron. Apollo Carneus, worsliipped at Sicyon, is 

 Achashtari as Karnaim. 



Corinth connects with Achuzam in Ixion, whose son Agelaus is 

 Jehaleleel. In its ancient name of Ephyre we find Hepher, Cen- 

 chraea being a reminiscence of his son Kenaz or Acencheres. Tenea 

 is shown by Strabo to connect with Tenedos, and thus with Othniel. 

 Arion of 'Corinth and Jonah have been often compared. It is 

 worthy of note that Jonah was of G-ath Hepher, which lay to 

 the south of the Achaean region of Palestine, containing Accho, 

 Achzib, Achshaph, &c. 



The traditions of Megaris connect with those of Laconia. Megarus 

 or Car is, I think, Ashchur himself, Lelex his son, who came from 

 Egypt, being, as already stated, Jehaleleel. Cleson and Pylas are 

 but repetitions of the latter monarch's name. Sciron of Megara is 

 another memorial of Ashchur. 



Attica. — The Aegico^res, one of the Attic tribes, are doubtless the 

 Ashchurites proper. The name of the father of Tekoa survives, how- 

 ever, in a better form as Scirios, the father of Aegeus, or Achuzam. 

 He is also the Salaminian seer Scirus, who built the temple to Athene 

 Sciras and founded the Scirophoria. His wife Naarah gave their 

 title to the Nauci'aries. Tekoa survives in Attica, Tettix, Autochthon 

 and in Tychon, an Athenian god. Aegeus has been already con- 

 nected with Achuzam, who, as Thotli, may also be Theseus. The 

 term Thesmos with the Thesmophories recall the Arabic Tasm, 

 which designates the same person. The Oschophories, connected 

 with these, may commemorate him or his father. He is also 

 Academus, an ancient hero related to the TyndaridjB, in whom 

 we find at once Agathodaemon and Lacedaemon. The Eleusinian 

 mysteries derive their name from the Palestinian Elusa or Khulasa, 

 the Indian Kailasa and the Egyptian Ahalu; Eleusis and Celeus, 

 who came of Boeotus, being equally Jehaleleel. Metanira, wife of 

 Celeus, is the same person as Deianira, daughter of Dexamenus. 

 Many things in the Eleusinian mysteries are capable of explanation 

 when the Egyptian funereal ritual and the history of Achuzam's line 

 are compared with them. The mysterious expressions ^^ Hide 

 Tohuie" and " Kogx om paoS'' are formed from Tekoa and Achuzam 

 respectively. The Choes are the priests of Achuzam. Pallas Achaea 

 is a union of the names of Jehaleleel and his father. Psaphis and 

 Oephissus alike commemorate Ziph. That the Athenians were a.. 



