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Huaca denotes, like Busiris and Sakkarah, a place of interment. 

 The deluge liaj)pened in the time of Pachacamac. The Ayllos of 

 Peruvian monarchy and the Oonopas or minor deities take their 

 names from Jehaleleel and Anub respectively. Lescarbot heard the 

 Indians of South America sing " Alleluia," which was, no doubt, a 

 transpoi-ted Ailinus or Ya laylee. Mexico is the land of Anahuac, 

 or the Anakim. Its divinity Ho, or Yotan, is the Celtic Hu, or 

 Aeddon, who is the German Odin, or Woden, as Humboldt has 

 shown, and the Ashchurite Achuzam. Yotan is connected with 

 the story of a great deluge, like the Babylonian Aos, the Persian 

 Yessim, the Indian Yasu, the G-reek Ogyges, the Celtic Hu or 

 Aeddon, the Peruvian Pachacamac, and the Chinese Yaou. This is 

 no mere verbal coincidence. Teotl, the great spirit, also called 

 Tlaloc, and by whose name the Teocallis or Mexican temples were 

 called, is Jehaleleel. There is a striking likeness between the latter 

 and the pagodas of India. The pagodas took their name from the 

 prefix of the Coptic article or an abbreviated Beth (house) to the 

 name of Gotama or Achuzam, the father of him whose fame survived 

 in the Teocallis. The Peruvian Huillacs or priests by their name 

 answer to the replacement of Buddha by his son. Ha or Kolokealo. 

 Yucatan, which preserves a very complete form of Achuzam 's name, 

 also had its Teocallis. The American pp'amids, the practice of 

 mummification, with many other monuments and customs, serve to 

 connect the ancient inhabitants of Central and South America with 

 those who ruled as the Shepherd kings over Egypt. The Aztecs 

 may preserve the name of Sydyk or Achashtari, the people of 

 Guatemala that of Othniel, the Chiapas that of Jabez, and even the 

 emigrating Tuscaroras, or white Indians, as they used to be called, 

 that of Ashchiir, the head of the Dioscuri. Before leaving the 

 geography of America I must mention the IJcayali river of Peru 

 as a cis-Atlantic Achelotis, or Khulil. The purity of the American 

 traditions, even as compared with the Chinese, as far as the forms of 

 names are concerned, leads me to deem it possible that the ancient 

 ruling stock of Mexico, Peru, &c., may have entered these countries 

 from the east, coming from the Basque, Euskara, or Ashchurite 

 region of Spain. 



VII.— THE ASHCHURITES IN PALESTINE. 

 As Ashchur is called the father of Tekoa, it is natural to suppose 

 that he really dwelt in the region known afterwards as the desert of 



