422 PEIMITIVE HISTORY OF THE lONIANS. 



IV.— CONNECTIONS IN ASIA MINOR, THEACE, AND GREECE. 



Geographically, Asia Minor and Thrace should precede Greece in 

 our search for traces of the ancient Ionian line in their westward 

 pi'ogress, but, as the traditions of these countries and their early 

 historical geography are contained principally in the notices of Greek, 

 writers, it will be more satisfactory to consider the three regions as 

 one. I have already stated that the Greek Erechtheus is Jerach- 

 meel the father of Onam, and that Ion, who is called the son of his 

 daughter Creusa by Xuthus, is Onam himself. After Ion, the people 

 of Asia Minor, in whose region Samos, Icarus, Mycale, Miletus and 

 Hermus, representing Shammai, Abi-Shur, Abi-Chail, Molid and 

 Harum, are found, were called lonians. The same stock peopled 

 Attica, and formed part of the population in other parts of Pelopon- 

 nesus. In Epirus and Thessaly the river Ion, a tributary of the 

 Peneus on which Dipnias stood, with the -5i]thices, called descendants 

 of Janus and Camise^^^ near at hand, and Passaron replaced by the 

 modern Joannina, the capital of the Molotti, present us with a few 

 among the many traces that await recognition of Onam and Ahban, 

 Jadag and Abishur, Jonathan and Molid. Epidaurus of Argolis, 

 which was anciently called Epicarus, and the most famous colony of 

 which was under the leadership of Deiphontes, did not receive its 

 name, as I once stated, from the Caphtorim, but from the Ionian 

 Abishur, Deiphontes representing his son Ahban, the eponym of the 

 Egyptian Daphne. 



Another name for Onam, in addition to that of Ion, is Deion, who 

 is called a son of -JSolus. Yet Deion, or Deioneus, or (Eneus, at 

 times represents Jonathan or simply a member of the Onite family. 

 In my paper on the Shepherd Kings, I identified Ixion and AchseuS' 

 with Aches or Achuzam. The wife of Ixion was Dia, the daughter 

 of Deioneus or Deion, just as Aches married a daughter of Onnos, 

 and Hea, a Dauke, apparently of the Anu line. Achseus also is 

 associated with Ion in the Greek mythology, although he is wrongly 

 called his brother. Samos was undoubtedly named by the descend- 

 ants of Shammai, but his mythological record is very brief. The 

 only personage I have found to represent him is Samos, the son of 

 Ancseus, whose brothers were Enudus, Alithersus, and Perilas, 

 which may possibly be corruptions of Nadab and Abishur, with an 



125 Guigniaut, ii. 440, 1215. 



