428 PRIMITIVE HISTORY OF THE lONIANS. 



geographical name, Aretlmsa, wliicli has much to do with the Onite' 

 legends, is likewise derived from that of the father of Hebron, who, 

 like his son, has a large water connection. 



In a former paper I hazarded the identification of the name Attica 

 with the geographical term Tekoa. The Ionian nationality of the 

 Athenians, however, would favour a derivation from Jadag, and the 

 Asty-Ashdod identity, taken along with the worship of Dagon in the 

 latter place, tends to confirm it.^^^ We are but feeling our way yet 

 in this wide field of primitive history, and, as a distinguished English 

 scholar in the department of comparative philology writes me, "many 

 things will turn out wrong ; at the best perhaps we may only obtain 

 approximations, but we are opening up that great chapter in history, 

 the epoch of a new and great civilization." Tlie Butadse, an Athenian 

 deme of the tribe Oeneis, and the Attic tribe Antiochis, must furnish 

 traces of Jadag in the Buddha form, and of Jonathan. The Oneatte 

 of Sicyon may also give us the latter's memorial. The son of 

 Antiochus is Phylas, who is the grandfather of Tlepolemus and 

 Ctesippus ; but Tlepolemus and Ctesippus are El Paal and Achitub, 

 whom I have stated to be sons of the daughter of Peleth, named 

 Hushim, by Shacharaim, of the family of Jamin. The memorials of 

 Shacharaim may be found in Mcesia, Dacia, and the Sarmatian region 

 to the north ; for Shaharaim is the eponym of the Sarmatian stock, 

 and many siich words as Sarmat^e and TJlpiani mark the progress of 

 his descendants. ^^^ Phylas is the same person as Pylus, called a 

 brother of Evenus, Molus and Thestius, and a son of Mars and 

 Demonassa. In Eyenus,^^"* Molus, Pylus and Thestius, the four 

 contemporaries, Ahban, Molid, Peleth and Zaza — the two former 

 being sons of Abishur, and the two latter of Jonathan — are set forth. 

 We may also find Peleth in Polydorus, who with Onites, who shoiild 

 be his father Jonathan, is made a son of Hercules. Polyides, son of 

 Mantius, Polydamus of Panthous, and Polybus or Polydamus of 



135 In my paper on the Shepherd Kings I gave reasons for uniting Athens and Ashdod. That 

 there was an Ashchurite connection for Ashdod as well as for Tentyra I could not fail to 

 perceive, but I was then ignorant of the alliance between the two families of Ashtari and 

 Jada in the person of Jonathan that gives us Castor and Pollux in one family. 



13S The Sarmatian or Sclavonic tribes descend from the Jerahmeelite stock of Jediael. From 

 him Podolia and the Vandali received their name. Volhynia represents his son, or son-in-law, 

 Bilhan. The Gothic name Ulphilas is an El Paal out of the true order. The Sclavonic names 

 Michael and Hezeki may be found among the descendants of Shaharaim. 1 Chron. viii. 16, 17. 



136* In the supersedence of the old name Evenus by the modem Pidari I imagine that I see a 

 change similar to that which replaces Hebrus by Maritza, Pidari being a form of Abitehui. 



