PRIMITIVE HISTORY OF THE lONIANS. 429 



Antenor, are probably the same. Another name for Peleth is Poltys, 

 a Thracian hero from whom ^nos was called Poltyobria/^^ and who 

 seems to have been confounded with Polydorus, son of Priam, the 

 tomb of this prince being found at ^nos. With the Thracian Poltys, 

 Plestorus, a Thracian hero or divinity, and the Thracian Peltastes, 

 must be associated. In Cisseus, of Thrace, the contemporary of 

 Poltys, we may probably discover his brother Zaza. Peleth again 

 may be Phylacus, son of Deion. He certainly is Pallas, the son of 

 the Athenian Pandion, or of the Latin Evander, both of whom repre- 

 sent Jonathan ; and his mother, Asteria in name, agrees with the 

 descent already attributed to him from a daughter of Achashtari. 

 Among the Titans, along with Pallas, appear Ephialtes, Hippolytus 

 and Anytus, the two former of whom exhibit the Japhleti form of 

 Peleth's name, the latter being Jonathan, his father. Otus, with 

 Ephialtes, may be Zaza, Ossa and Pelion being named from him and 

 his brother. Hippolyte is a name of Astydameia, and Astydameia 

 is the mother of Tlepolemus as El Paal, the grandson of Peleth. I 

 have already drawn attention to the Hoplites, as bearing a name 

 similar to Hippolytus, and to their ancestor Hoples, as a son of Ion. 

 The last identification in Greek mythology which I propose for Peleth 

 is the famous hero Polydeukes or Pollux. He is called the brother 

 of Castor, who is really his grandfather, Achashtari.^'* His father, 

 Tyndareus, at once recalls Tentyra, an Onite city, founded probably 

 by Jonathan, father of Peleth. His mother is Leda, daughter of 

 Thestius, Thestius being a Tvashtar-like form of the name of 

 Achashtari, and she must be the same person as Althaea, daughter of 

 the same Thestius, and the wife of (Eneus, the father of Deianira, an 

 Onite name.^^^ 



Certain associations of names have led me to give to Othniel a 

 daiighter of Jonathan in marriage. Thus, he may be Demoleon, who 

 is called the son of Antenor ; and, as I have before supposed, Danaus, 



1ST ApoUodorus, ii. 5, 9 ; Strabo, vii. vi. 2. 



133 The German Baldag the sun-god is undoubtedly Polydeukes. Hermoder his brother is 

 really the son of his second cousin Ahban. In Indian story Rama or Harum, who is this 

 Hermoder, is the great friend of Paulastyia. Let it be remembered that Caystras is the grand- 

 father of Polydeukes or Peleth ; and that Janias and Assis or Jonathan and Zaza are counted 

 in the Shepherd line. 



139 CEneus, another hero of the vine, seems to 'represent Jonathan, but his genealogy is 

 discordant, presenting connections with the families of Zereth and Bethlehem, which I think 

 he is not entitled to. Deianira is simply Dia or Dioue, the common female name among tlie 

 Onites, with the solar termination ra. 



