260 THE SHEPHERD KINGS OP EGYPT. 



region of Gerar, and all geographical absurdities are at once removed. 

 The poets tell a true story, which all the national vanity of the 

 Greeks and their popular forgetfulness of their derivation have not 

 been able to rob of all traces of an Oriental and Palestinian original. 



Phocis. — The history of this state repeats in part that of Boeotia. 

 Phocus himself, with his father Aeacus, denotes Achuzam, his son 

 Peleus being Jehaleleel, who is also Elieus, called son of Cephissus, 

 a;nd the eponym of Lilaea and Alalia. Hylae of Boeotia is the same 

 word without the reduplicated I. The Hosioi of Delphi, who alone 

 had the right to celebrate the mysteries of Zagreus, are of Achuzam 

 and the later representatives of the Egyptian priests of Aches or 

 Thoth. Tereus of Phocis may bg Tiria, the son of Jehaleleel. The 

 Leleges of Jehaleleel early possessed Phocis, and the presence . of 

 Delphi in that country answers to the connection of Lelex and 

 Teleboas. The latter is, I believe, the Edomite Eliphaz, whose 

 Hittite mother belonged to the family of Ashchur, and is also the 

 same as the Mysian TeJephus, son of a daughter of Aleus, who is 

 Jehaleleel. It is possible, although hardly probable, that Adah the 

 mother of Eliphaz was of Jehaleleel's family. 



Locris. — The Leleges of Jehaleleel are said to have possessed this 

 country in early days, and Locrus, its eponym, is made a son of 

 Phaeax or Achuzam. Many places in its three divisions retained 

 Ashchurite names. The initial I, I think, must be the remnant of 

 the Arabic article, which is present in full form in Alcinous, the 

 name of the brother of Locrus. It is worthy of note that the 

 Loegrian tribes of British story connect with Hu or Achuzam and 

 Ceridwen, or Ceres his wife, taking their name from Locrin, who is 

 m.ade a brother of Kamber or Zimran. 



Aetolia has Jerahmeelite connections in the line of Jediael and. 

 Gilead. Chalcis and Qilchalia equally preserve the memory of 

 Jehaleleel. Taphiassus may have derived its name from Ziph, or from 

 Tappuah the son of Hebron. Dexamenus of Olenus is Achuzam, 

 and he may also be Ochesias, father of Periphas. This Periphas or 

 Phorbas is, I believe, Hareph the father of Beth-Gader, rather than 

 Arba, and the same as the Egyptian Cerpheres or Chareph-ra, 

 whom we have found related to the family of Ashchur in the 

 history of Corcyra or Corfu. His connection with Achuzam appears 

 from the relations of the following jjairs of names : Jasion . and 

 Cqiybas, Acessamenus and Periboea, Echidna and Cerberus, Phegeus 



