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father of Rerir or Scild, who has been connected with the Phaeacians, 

 and whose son Sceaf is Ziph. As Odin, his son is Bakhir, who, like 

 Scikl or Rerir, Ingialld the Ynglingian or Angle (like Anchiale from 

 Nechaliel), Wala son of Bedwig, Ali or Wali, also son of Odin, Tell, 

 Egill, the Helgis, and many other mythical characters, represents 

 Jehaleleel, Salatis, Balot, Aroeris, Polydeukes, &c. Sigtuna, founded 

 by Odin, bears a better form of his own name. Either he or his 

 relative Jokshan named the Saxons. Valhalla, like Ahaln, Elysium, 

 &c., is the land of Jehaleleel. Swava united with the Helgis is a 

 form of Ziph or Sceaf Of Hepher came the Kobolds. The 

 Austrasian families, including Siegbert, belong to the family of 

 Achashtari, who is Asa Thor, Saetere, Sitivrat, the husband of 

 Ostara, and the eponym of the Ister, his mother being commemorated 

 in the ISToarus. The G-oths are Shethites, Hittites or Cheta, men of 

 Gath. Chrodo and Dagr may represent Zereth and Zochar. The 

 goddess Ondixrdis recalls the Indian Onderah and the Egyptian 

 Denderah or Tentyra of the Tyndaridse. Nanna, called the wife of 

 Baldur, is Nana of Sangarius, ISTanaia of Ormuzd and the Babylonian 

 Ishtar. We have already found it probable that Jehaleleel married 

 a daughter of Achashtari. Bragi, the god of learning and song, is, I 

 think, Hepher. Ida, the plain on which Asgard stood, refers to the 

 Idumaean region, near which the early Shethites dwelt. I cannot 

 doubt that the ISTiflungs of the Niebelungen Lied are the posteiity of 

 Hepher, Gvinther or Gunnar being Kenaz, Chandra, or Cheneres; 

 and Otnit, related to the story, Othniel ; while Atli or Etzel is the 

 Egyptian Tlas, the Greek Daedalus, Tantalus and Atlas, the Roman 

 Italus and the Jerahmeelite Jediael, whom I shall show in the history 

 of that line to have played a very important part in the early annals 

 of Egypt. From this same Jediael came the Vandals. The Ger- 

 manic tribes, however, belong chiefly to the Ashchurite and related 

 Midianite families. 



VI.— TRACES OF THE ASHOHUEITES AMONG SOME SO-CALLED 

 TURANIAN PEOPLES. 



China. — The name of the father of Tekoa survives in the Chinese 

 aimals as Tekuh, whose sons were Te-che, a repetition of his own 

 name, and Yaou.^^ Yaou is plainly Achuzam, and the Aos or Hea of 

 Babylonia, the British Hu. He was a sage; the vision of a red dragon 

 preceded his birth ; and in his reign'the great deluge took place. Yu, a 



*i Gutzlaff 's Sketch of Chmese History, Ancient and Modern. London, 1834 ; vol. iL 119 seq. 



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