402 PRIMITIVE HISTORY OP THE lONIANS. 



meel ; no better rendering of tliat of the mother of Onam, than the 

 original Atai-ah, could be given than Ano-bret f while the Shobalian 

 connection appears most clearly in the presence of his eldest son. 

 In classical story we find that Janus, whom I shall yet clearly prove 

 to be this same Onam, was made the son of Creusa, the daughter 

 of Erechtheus, who gave him birth in the house of her husband 

 Xipheus, the latter, however, not being his father. ^^ The same 

 Creusa is made the mother of Ion, by Xiithus, whom I have already 

 identified with Jachath, the son of Alvan or Ileaiah.^^ Ion, Janus, 

 Anti and Onam, are the same person. He is also the Yedic Indra, 

 a form resembling An-ra or Tentyra, who is the son of Brachma, or 

 Brihaspati, whose wife is Tara.*" From his connection with Soma, 

 it is plain that Indra and Atri are the same, the latter name, like 

 Tara, representing his mother Atarah. In Egypt, also, we have no 

 difficulty in recognizing the second wife of Jei'achmeel as the goddess 

 Athor, who is constantly found in connection with her son An-ra. 



I.— EGYPTIAN CONNECTION. 

 There seems to be little doubt tliat Onam exercised sovereignty in 

 Egypt, and that some of his descendants ruled in that land. Metho- 

 dius mentions an lonichus, whom he calls a son of Noah j*^ and the 

 industrious Bryant has collated passages from ancient writers, pre- 

 served in the Fasciculus Temporum and the Nuremberg Chronicle, 

 relating to him.*^ These agree in stating that lonichus, leaving the 

 east, went into the land of Etham and founded a kingdom, the chief 

 city of which was Heliopolis. lonichus or Onam was not a son of 

 Noah by many generations, for he and Javan are two very different 

 persons, and Bryant's supposition that he is the same as Ham is 

 altogether unfounded. Otherwise, the information afforded by these 

 chronicles is singularly correct. Not only do we find Onnos the first 



37 Anobret, the beloved of Ami, is united witli Cannes by Sir Henry Rawlinson. Rawlinson's 

 Herodotus, App., Book i. Essay X. 



38 To prevent an unnecessary multiplication of notes I refer the reader who wishes to' aseer- . 

 tain the correctness of my statements or information regarding classical mythology, to any. 

 good dictionaries of the Greek and Latin languages and mythology. 



30 The identiiication of Ilus, Xuthiis, etc., with Alvan, Jacliatli, and other members of the 

 family of the AuritiE, are to be found iu my paper on " The Horites." 



*> For the same reason as stated in Note 3S, I refer the reader to a manual or dictionary of 

 Oriental mythology. It is true that Brahma and Briliaspati are often mentioned as distinct 

 from one another, but Indra is made the son of each, and the Tara of Brihaspati, whose iiame 

 contains the root jera/i nijerach, is represented by Gayatri or Kattri the wife of Brahma. 



*i Methodius apiicl Bryant, Analysis of Ancient Mythology, 1807, Vol. v, p. 10. 



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