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THE PRIMITIVE HISTORY OF THE lONIANS. 



[CoM.Hri.wed froin page USl.] 



BY JOHN CAMPBELL, M.A., 



Pi-ojbssor of Cliurch History, die, Presbyterian College, Montreal. 



v.— ITALIAN GONNECTION". 

 . Onnos or An-ra of Egypt, Oanues or Anu of Babylonia, Ion or 

 Deion of Greece, is the same as tlie Latin Jarnis. Like Ion, lie is 

 reported to have been the son of Creusa the daughter of Erechtheus ; 

 and, as bearing the name Quirinus, he should have relations with the 

 family of Romulus, who, like Erechtheus, designates Jerachmeel. As 

 representing, in his double aspect, the union of the tribes governed 

 by Romulus and Tatius, and thus assuming the role of Mithras the 

 mediator, we shall find that his Italian story bears out the facts 

 presented in other legends concerning the family of Onam. The 

 association of the fish with Janus in the person of his sister or wife 

 Camasane, who, like Atargatis, was half woman and half fish, has 

 led many writers on comparative mythology to identify him with 

 Oajines and other fish-gods."*' He has also been regarded as an 

 Apollo or god of the sun, by ancient mythologists. As the porter, 

 holding the key and bearing the name Thurseus, he relates at once 

 to Tentyra and Athor or Atargatis and to Abi-Shur his grandson. 

 He has also been identified mth (Enotrus, a name that suits better 

 his grandson Jonathan."^ Panda, the goddess of the gates, and 

 Pandosia, a colony of the OEnotri, exhibit the same form as we have 

 found in Pandion, a Jonathan -viTLth the prefix of the Coptic ai"ticle. 

 A similar form appears in Fontus, who is called a son of Janus, but 

 who is really Jonathan his grandson. (Enotria may designate the 

 land of the vine, and still not be discordant with the legends of the 

 Onites, since the mythology of Greece has exhibited an important and 

 repeated wine-connection. ^^^ Entoria, who is associated with Janus, 



1*0 Creuzer, Guigniaut, &c. 



1*1 Banter's Mytliol. & Fab. explained by history, London, 1740, ii. 268. 



1*2 Oinos may have derived its name from Onam. 



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