258 THE SHEPHERD KINGS OF EGYPT. 



colony of Egyptian Saites is attested by many credible antliors, and 

 modern researcbes have plainly sbown a connection of rites tending 

 to establish the legend. Athens was originally called Asty, and 

 this name, derived by Diodorus from Egypt, is, as I have elsewhere 

 stated, identical with the Philistine Ashdod and the Egyptian Fostat. 

 The Pischdadian line of Persia is the same Saitic family, Fostat and 

 Pischdad giving a form of Poseidon, already united with the Ash- 

 churites. Sheth mnst lie at the foundation of these words. That 

 Ashdod and ancient Athens are one appears from the identity 

 of the story related by the Scholiast on Aristophanes and that in 

 I Sam. V. 6, with which the statement of Herodotus (T. 105) con- 

 cerning the Scythians at Ascalon may be compared. The name 

 Athens may come through Tanis or Athennes, from Ethnan, the 

 youngest son of Helah. Erechtheus is Jerachmeel, and Cecrops the 

 Egyptian Ekerophes, who do not belong to the family of Ashchur. 



Boeotia. — The geographical names of Egypt and Palestine, using 

 the latter word as including everything between Egypt and Syria, 

 are reproduced with great faithfulness in Boeotia. Most of them are 

 Ashchurite, although the Orchomenian region belongs to the line of 

 Jerachmeel, to which I have already more than once alluded. Ascra 

 is a memorial of Ashchur himself; Isos, Phocae, and perhaps 

 Onchestus, recall Achuzam ; Jehaleleel appears in Helicon (a Bible 

 Halak), Alalcomenae and Aulis, opposite Chalcis of Euboea, which 

 has the same origin; Siphae, Copae and Lake Copais, the Cephissus, 

 the Asopus, Thisbe and Thespiae represent Ziph. The name Boeotia 

 is a form of Achuzam with the Coptic article, Boeotus being the 

 Egyptian Thoth or Bo§thos and the Indian Buddha, already identified 

 with the eldest son of ISTaarah, Aeolus, connected with him, being 

 his son Jehaleleel. He is also Ogyges, an Achaean name approaching 

 to the form Agag, given at a later period than that of Achuzam to 

 the kings of the Amalekites, whom we have found to represent some 

 of his descendants. Ogyges was king of the Ecteues, who present us 

 with another form of his own name, and the father of Eleusis and • 

 Aeolus or Jehaleleel. As connected with Thebes, he exhibits a con- 

 founding of Achuzam with Coz, the grandfather of Jabez. Cadmus, 

 although at times representing Etam or Getam, is generally a trun- 

 cated form of Academus, Lacedaemon and Agathodaemon, exhibiting 

 traditions of Achuzam. As such he is father of Polydorus, a Balder 

 -or Polydeukes, who is Jehaleleel, and in whom we find a synonym. 



