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Gedor or Gadara, Succotli, Moerad, &c., established themselves in 

 this region. Og, the king of Bashan, probably belonged to this 

 Scythian family, whose first settlements seem to have been in Southern 

 Palestine. The Shethites dwelt with the Moabites and Midianites^® 



Titlionus may be Ethnan. In the British genealogies Amathaon is a son of Don, so far 

 agreeing with the Tithonus connection. But ^mathion is also called a son of Astraeus, who 

 is Achashtari, and of Aurora, the daughter of Hyperion, who is Hepher, thus still exliibiting 

 Ashohurite relationships. The Babylonian Kimmut, who connects with Hea, may be Hemath, 

 and thus still declare his Ashohurite origin. He is the Assyrian Samdan or Adar, the latter 

 word giving Ezi-a. With this the connection of the British Adur and Amathaon agrees. The 

 Scandinavian Heimdall born of nine mothers, the nine springs of the Greek Hymettus and 

 the springs of Hamath-Dor, tell the same story. He must be the Egj^ptian Eimopth or 

 Imouthes, who is the god of medicine, recalling the medical family of Amj'thaon, and with 

 whom Tosorthus, the first physician, whom we have already identified with Zereth, must con- 

 nect. Tosorthus was also a scribe and a builder with hewn stones. Homtn is the name of a 

 prince of Egypt who lived in the reign of Sephuris or Hepher, and who may be Imouthes or 

 Hemath. The Eudras and Maruts of Ushas and Surya, Jereds and Mereds of Hushah and 

 Ezra, are, like the families above named, physicians. Himavat should connect with them. 

 Hemath is Amenti and also Rhadamantus, his son Erythrus being Jered the father of Gedor. 

 Prom him the Imaus or Emodi mountains took their name. They were originally the 

 mountains of Hamath. It is possible that Ezra and Hemath are names of the same person, 

 or that Ezra denotes his wife. If xsriuce Mourhet or Mered married a daughter of Suphis this 



is probable. Ashohur. 



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Achuzam. Zereth. 



Jehaleleel. Hemath. 



Ziph. Mered. 



Bithiah. 



The relations of the Kenites among the tribes of Palestine, &c. were with the Amalekites 

 (i. Sam. XV. 6), and with the Midianites (Exod. ii.), and both of these are Ashchurite families. 

 The Gezrites (i. Sam. xx\'ii. S), who are spoken of as old inhabitants of Southern Palestine 

 with the Amalekites, probably represent the descendants of Ezer or Ezra. 



s" Although I x'ropose devoting another paper to the history of the children of Abraham by 

 Keturali, as they have been alluded to in this article I may state a few of the connections of 

 Zimran with the family of Achuzam. The Homeritae of Arabia are distinctly said to have been 

 the descendants of Keturah. Their name is derived from Zimran, the eldest of her sons. His 

 name, meaning "mountain goat" and "song," agrees etymologically in the first signification 

 with the Chimaera of the family of Typhon, in the second with t!ie Homerid family of Smyrna. 

 The Homeritae descended, according to other Arabian traditions, from Himyar, who is called 

 Ghazahadj, or Achuzzath ; and he is the Persian Kaiomers identified falsely with Gilshah or 

 Jehaleleel. In him also we find the Babylonian king Zmarus ; perhaps the Phoenician 

 Demaroon ; the British Emrys or Ambrosius, head of the Cambrians or Cjanri ; the Scandi- 

 navian Yniir, ancestor of the Cimbri or Cimmerians ; the epohym of Ambracia, Imbros and 

 other places of lilje name, such as Srhyrna, as well as of the fabulous Chimaera, within the 

 Greek area ; and the father of African Cumbrians and the Umbrians of Italy. In every 

 case those names will be found intimately connected vnth those of well-known Ashehurites, 

 principally in the line of Achuzam. So important a member of this family was Zimran, that 

 freqnently, as in the case of the Arabian and Persian traditions, he is confounded with his 

 uncle and grandfather. The megalithic structures called Stonehenges, as found in Arabia, 

 Britain and other parts of the world, are associated generally with the name of the eldest son 

 of Keturah. Abundant proof for the statement that the hero of many mythologies is really 

 Zimran, and not a distinct person of similar name, is found in the association with his of the 

 names of his brothers Jokshan, Midian, &c., and their children, Dedan, Ephah, &c., as well as 

 in the Arabian connections of the Katoorah and the Azdites or Amalika. He may be the 

 Bgyptain monarch Lamares, Lampares or A meres of Manetho's twelfth dynasty. 



