408 PRIMITIVE HISTORY OF THE lONIANS. 



to discover wliether Molid, the brother of Ahban, appears in tlie 

 Egyptian records.®* 



The second son of Onam is Jada or Jadag, giving to the final 

 uyin its full force. His name is a remarkable one, being almost a 

 root form of the Hebrew verb " to perceive, know." The root extends 

 its ramifications into most of the Indo-European languages, appearing 

 in the Greek eido, oida, the Latin video, the Sanscrit toid, hudh, the 

 Zend weedem, the Gothic vitan, the English toit, and the Sclavonic 

 widze, wedeti, as well as in the Celtic eduyn^'^ gwyddoni. The intel- 

 ligent Dagon and the wise Budha are easily connected with this son 

 of Onam, but I have not found any Egyptian monarch or divinity 

 unless it be Ptah or Thoth, who represents him.*'® It is plain that 

 0n3 of the Thoths or Athothes is Achuzam the son of Ashchur.' 

 There may have been two of this name, as the list of Eratosthenes 

 indicates, one of them being the Jada of Chronicles. Of his two 

 sons, Jether and Jonathan, the latter only had descendants. He 

 must be the later Onnos, the same as Janias of the lists, and the 

 Tancheres of Manetho's fifth dynasty, who precedes Onnos. It was 

 this Jonathan, in all probability, who founded Tentyra, the city of 

 Athor his great grandmother, and one of the places bearing the 

 Onite designation On. Yet his second son 2aza, who is the same as 

 Assa son of Tankera, and Assis or Asseth the successor of Janias, 

 has left his memorial at Saccarah.^* The connection of Jonathan and 

 Zaza with the Shepherd line is, I think, founded upon the fact that 

 the former married a daughter of Achashtari, Sesortasen III. or 

 Sesostris. Of this, however, I have only mythological, not monu- 

 mental evidence. The brother of Zaza was Peleth. He must have 

 named the nome called Paalit or Polls in Lower Egypt,™ but I have 

 found no trace of him upon the lists or records of the monuments. 

 He was probably expelled from Egypt to Palestine, where he named 

 Beth Palet and other places j and from thence would seem to have 



66 There is a King called Melaneres associated with the Shepherds, yet connected with the. 

 line of Horus, who may be Molid. 



67 Gesenii Lexicon Hetiraicum in loc. Pezron's Antiquities of Nations, London, 1706. 



6S The identity of Ptah and Agni, and the fact of his having heen worshipped at Heliopolis, 

 whUe Indra and Agni are constantly united, with other connections yet to be mentioned, lead 

 me to think that Jadag is Ptah. Ptah was born from the mouth of Kneph as Indra from that 

 of Pouroucha. It is worthy of note that Ptah Tatann was worshiped at Tentyra. 



69 Kenrick, ii, 121, note. With Jonathan, Janias or Tancheres, I think that tlie fish Notius 

 Which saved Isis and was placed by Venus among the constellations, should be connected. 

 Hygini Poeticon Astronomicon, sli. 494. 



'<> Can he have named Plinthine? 



