266 THE SHEPHERD KINGS OF EGYPT. 



Daniel, are Celtic forms of Kenaz and Otliniel. The Irish Olioll is 

 Jehaleleel, and ISTiuU, Easru, Heber Scot and G-adelas, of the same 

 history, are Pennel the father of Gedor, Ezra, Heber the father of 

 Socho or the Sucathites, who are the Scyths and Scots, and Jekuthiel 

 the father of Zanoah. A little labour spent upon the ancient annals 

 of Ireland would furnish one of the most important contributions to 

 the early history of the world. XJthyr Pendragon, the father of 

 Arthur in the British traditions, is Jether, the son of Ezra, Arthur 

 himself being Erythrus, Orthros^ Rathures, Jordanus, perhaps Feridun 

 and Pirithous — certainly Jered the father of Gedor. The Dumnonii 

 may have taken their name from Temeni. Achashtai'i is the British 

 Yssadawr, improperly made a name of Hu. He ,is also Sadurn, the 

 man of the vessel, and Seithwedd Saidi of the flood at Savadan, 

 which may be Sodom. Seithenin, the drunkard who let m the sea, 

 recalls the story of Sesostris, to which allusion has already been 

 made. Castor was long a recognized Gallic deity. The name Ciu-aidh, 

 or warrior, comes from Zereth, who is also the British Cadraith. The 

 Tisurini were doubtless a branch of the Tocchari of Zochar. The 

 "Welsh, Irish and Scottish annals, the legends of the Round Table 

 and the Paladins, together with the many unconnected tales of the 

 ancient Celtic peoples of the three kingdoms, are neither works of 

 imagination nor distortions of comparatively late historical events, 

 but records, more or less corrupt, of the ancient period when the 

 Ashchurites, afterwards dispersed over all the civilized world, began 

 one of the most important parts of that world's history in Egypt and 

 Palestine. - 



Germanic Peoples.^'^ — The Ashchurites are the ^sir of the Scan- 

 dinavians and Germans who came under Odin from Asgard. Their 

 hero is Askr, or the ash, and he is also Tuisco, whose wife Nertha is 

 Naarah. Irmin and Hermoder, connecting with him, must give us 

 Harum, who, as Naram Sin, is made a son of the Assyrian Shagarak- 

 tiyach. Oscar, a well-known Teutonic name, is Usecheres or Ashchur 

 preserved in its complete and original form. The Eddaic Hela may 

 be the second wife of the father of Tekoa. Donar and the Tyndaridaa 

 connect. Tuisto, who is Pluto, and the same as the Gallic Teutates 

 and the Egyptian Thoth, is Achuzam. He is also called Sigy, but 

 Odin is his most famous appellation. As Sigy or Sigge he is the 



so For the German and Scandinavian Mythology and Anticjuities, see Grimm's Deutsche 

 Mythologie, Mallet's Northern Antiquities, &c. 



