562 PRIMITIVE HISTORY OF THE lONIANS. 



gods with, the family of Onam. Entimus or Antipliemiis, who is 

 said to have led a colony from Lindus, in Rhodes, to Gela, in Sicily, 

 is, I think, Nadab; and Antium, in Latium, may probably be a 

 reminiscence of the same hero of the Sun. As for Ahban, the son 

 of Abishur, we find him in the god Hebon associated with Bacchus, 

 as he is with Coz, the son of Ammon, and bearing the bull's head of • 

 his father, Taurus or Abi-Shur. The oracle of Aponus, with foun- 

 tains recalling Daphne ; Hipponium or Vibona, founded by the Locri ; 

 and the range of the Apennines, a western Lebanon, are Italian traces 

 of the line of Ahban. I have already identified him with Faunus, 

 and his son Harum with Turnus, the son of Faunus. The few 

 Italian reproductions which I have noted of the line of Ahban, are 

 as follow : — 



Orcus, Uragum, E,omulus= Terra =Sabus. 



Janus, 

 CEiiotrua. 



Cameses. daughter = PtCMS. JEthex, Tages, Dis. 



Entimus, Antii3liemus, Jupiter = Capella, . Evancler, Aventinus. 



I I Venilia? I 



AUadius. . Hebon, Faunus. . Pallas, Pluto, Pollux. . 



I 

 Turnus. 



VI.— CELTIC AND GERMANIC CONNECTIONS. 

 The mythologies or legendary histories of the Celtic and Germanic 

 peoples afford ample material for ti-acing the families of Onam, but, 

 as in the case of all .that have preceded, lack of time to pursue my 

 researches has hindered me from doing more than to indicate, by a 

 few examples, the wide-spread influence exercised by this ancient . 

 stock. The Irish Tuatha-de-Danans are clearly the posterity of 

 Onam. I am perfectly willing to admit that connections based 

 upon mere verbal similarity are of the most deceptive chai'acter ; 

 but when, in a single family, I can discover, along with other attri- 

 butes, a series of names showing intimate resemblance to those of 

 notable persons in the line I seek to identify, I am compelled to ask 

 a reason for this similarity, and, if no better can be given, to refer 

 them to the same original. This is peculiarly the case with the 

 family under consideration. The Tuatha-de-Danans"^ were not only 



1*3 Keating's General History of Ireland, Dublin, 1S65, p. 86. See also General Vallancey's 

 Specimen of a Dictionary of the language of the Aire Coti or Ancient Irish, Dublin. 1804. 



