426 PRIMITIVE HISTORY OP THE lONIANS. 



His relations with Bacchus agree admirably with those which the 

 Latin Faunus sustains to Picus, and with the affinity already estab- 

 lished between Ahban and Coz, the son of Ainmon. Plutarch 

 attributes Panic terrors to an Egyptian Pan, who was the general of 

 Osiris or Bacchus (two very different persons), in connection with the 

 death, of the latter. The Ladon, which is a link in mythology unit- 

 ing Pan and Daphne, is commemorated in Latinus, called the son of 

 Faunus, and in the river Litany of northern Palestine. Euanthes, 

 whom I have made the same as Ahban, is the father of Maron, and 

 a son of Faunus is Turnus. Both of these names, Maron and Turnus, 

 may represent Harum, who may also be the Indian TJrva, son of 

 Chyavana, and the Scythian Uranus, son of Acmon and grandson of 

 Manes, as Urva is the grandson of Manu. This Manu or Manes is 

 Am-mon, v/ho married Abihail, the wife of Abishur, and mother of 

 Ahban. Slie, as Amalthtea, is said to have left her two kids to 

 nurse the infant Jove or Bacchus, to whose line Euanthes and Faunus 

 belong. Amalthsea became the constellation Capella, which is a 

 better form of the name Abihail, and the Samian relations of which 

 will ajipear in the mythology of Italy. Acmonia, in Phrygia, was 

 appropriately situated upon the Hermus. Acmon, the Greek name 

 for the anvil, must have etymological relations with Gobhan, the 

 smith of the Celtic languages. Another form in which we meet with 

 Ahban, is that of Capaneus. This hero is called the father of Sthe- 

 nelus ; but, as I have shewn in a former paper, Sthenelus is a Greek 

 form of Othniel, who was the son of Kenaz. Still, as Othniel or 

 Atin-re or Bechen-aten married into the family of Onam, it is pos- 

 sible that Ahban was his father-in-law. Latinus was the son of 

 Fau-uus, while Daphne and Ladon are closely related. As Geshuri 

 gives Leucosyrii, and Ahban, Lebanon, Othniel, without the final el, 

 may give Latinus. The fact of the present Litany being the same as 

 the Greek Leontes, taken together with the meaning of Othniel as 

 the " lion of God," and the proximity of the river to Kanah on the 

 one hand, and the Adonis region of Phoenicia on the other, seem to 

 favour this view.-'^^ It is worthy of note that the wife of Capaneus 

 and the mother of Epidaurus, who, as Abishur, represents his father, 

 bear the same name, Euadne, with which the Euhadnes of the Oannes 

 line of Babylonia invites comparison. 



131 Adonis is Atin-re or Othniel. See Sliepherd Kings. 



