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many other places. ^^ The Minaei and Gerrliaei preserved the names 

 of his grandsons Jamin and Eker;^^ but, better still, tradition gives 

 as his sons or descendants, Yemen and Muzaz, and informs iis that 

 Ishmael married a daughter of the latter, thus acquiiing a right 

 to the guardianship of the Caaba at Mecca, which bore his name.^^ 

 Jarhibaal, the well-known moon-god, presents us with a fuller form 

 of the name of this ancient hero.-* Did time permit I might pi'oceed 

 to the pi'oof of a statement which I unhesitatingly make, that he, and 

 not Abraham, is the Indian Brachma.-^ His son is the legendaiy 

 Egyptian E.hampsinitus.**' Latin traditions are far from ignoring 

 Jerachmeel ; for, in an abbreviated form, like that of the Arabic 

 Ram-allah, he is the Romulus of Livy and other historians of Rome, 

 while Remus and Rome itself are but forjus of the word Ram, which 

 designates his son.^' Numa, in all probability, is the Latin rendering 

 of Jamin. ^^ The Greek Orchomenos, with its ancient monarch of 

 the same name, and its Minyan line and King Eteocles, carry us 



21 See authorities in Jervis' Genesis Elucidated, 191, 195, 19S, 20-1 ; also Sale's Koran, 

 Preliminary Discourse ; Lenormant and Chevalier's Manual of the Ancient History of the 

 East, vol. ii. 



22 Strabo and Pliny, with other Geographers, refer to these tribes, and tlie latter gives a 

 tradition of their Grecian origin. 



23 See Jervis' Genesis, 191, 195. Muzaz and Modad are forms of the same name. Mecca is 

 another form. The original Maaz is really Magaz. It is worthy of note that Rahnia (Ram) was 

 a deity of Yemen. 



-■- Guigniaut, Religions de 1' Antiquity, ii. 1035. Jaribolus is a name answering to the Greek 

 Eurjqiylus. Eurynome connected with Orohamus is a similar form. Hierombaal of 

 Sanchoniatho is made the same by Guigniaut. 



-^ Bralnna may rather denote Ram the son of Jerachmeel, with the prefix of the Coptic 

 article, answering to the Egyptian Piromis. According to Grote, Ereohtheus, whom I shall 

 yet identify with Jeracluneel, denotes divine and primitive Attic man. See the Coptic Ele- 

 ment in Languages of the Indo-European Family, Canadian Journal, December, 1872. A 

 similar form to Brahma is the Greek Phoroneus, who is Ram, his sons Car and Mysus being 

 Eker and Maaz. 



2" I can hardly doubt that Rhampsinitus is a Greek rendering of Ram-sin of the Babylonian 

 monuments. Although I believe that I can establish the connection of Jamin with the 

 Egyptian city of Memphis, T have not found any traces of Ram other than geographical in the 

 land of the Pharaohs. The famines of Ereohtheus, Rhan>psinitus and Semempses, or of 

 Jerachmeel, Ram and Shammai, must, I think, be legends concerning an Egyptian fact. In the 

 parallel Greek myth of Agamedes and Trophonius, the Orchomenian Erginus replaces 

 Rhampsinitus. Botli Orchomenos and Erginus denote Jeracluneel. Ram is Raman, the 

 Babylonian air god. 



27 Ram has undoubted relations with the root Ram, common to many languages, denoting 

 "height." Eustathius, speaking of Ramathan the old name of Laodicea, recognizes it as 

 designating "the lofty God;" Eustathius in Dionysii Perieg, 915. The abbreviation of 

 Jerachmeel in Romulus, and the suppression of the aspirate is similar to that which appears 

 in Riha, the modern appellation of Jericho. 



28 The rendering of Caper-Is^aum'by Khan Minyeh is a reversion of the order which appears 

 in Jamin and Numa. Sin-Nimi, as already indicated, may be a similar case of Babylonian 

 inversion. 



