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notable magicians — a character which has already more than once 

 been attributed to members of the Onite family — but their priests 

 or workers of magic were the Dees, and their principal god the Sun. 

 To them, likewise, belonged the Lia-fail, or stone of destiny, which 

 lies under the English coronation chair, and recalls Jupiter Lapis, 

 and the Petra of Greek idolatry connected with the name of Abishur. 

 In their number we find IsTiiadh of the silver hand, whose story Mr. 

 Cox has identified with Germanic and Indian legends that will yet 

 appear in intimate connection with the sons of Shammai f-^^* and their 

 sacred cauldron is that of Dodona. But more remarkable than all 

 this is the presence, in the royal and priestly genealogies of this 

 people, of the following Onite names : Jarbhainel, who is Jerachmeel ; 

 Eana, who is Onam ;^^** Semias or Shammai ; Tait or Daghda, who 

 may be Jadag ; ISTeid or Nuadh, who is Nadab, the brother of Abishur, 

 and Gorias, who may be Abishur ; Jondaoi or Jonathan ; Ealathan 

 son of ISTeid or Seled, of Nadab ; Falias, whence the stone Lia-fail, 

 which is the Greek Palladium, or Peleth. Beachoil, one of their chief 

 princesses, is Abichail, and Gabhneoin may represent her son Achban, 

 with whose name Gobhan, the Irish smith, has been already associated. 

 Eathoir may be the childless Jether, son of Jadag, a reminiscence of 

 whose name seems to survive in that of Jixturna, called the wife of 

 Janus. Milesius, who is represented as pertaining to another line, 

 may be Molid. He takes the place of his brother Ahban as the 

 father of Heremon, the husband of Tea (an Onite name), who is 

 plainly Harum, for his son is Irial or Aharhel. Fial, called the 

 mother of Heremon, is the Egyptian, Palestinian and Greek Phiala, 

 and, as a form of Abihail, should be his grandmother, he being the 

 son of Ahban. 



In the British mythology, Seithwedd Saida is represented as having 

 been the same as Dagon, the king of Dyved, or the land of Hud, and 

 the father of Hywy, who is probably Achuzam, son-in-law of Onam. 

 In Saida, Dyved and Hud we must, I think, see Dagon of Ashdod, 

 or Jadag, the son of Onam. Whether this be the case or not, for 

 one mythology may present the same individual under different 



Gorias of the Tiiatlia-de-Danans, wliom I ideutify ■with Abishur, is connected by the latter 

 writer with Stonehenge, wliich is called Choir Gaur or Temple of the Sim. To Soim or Semias, 

 who is Shammai, he says wells and fountains Avere dedicated. Patruin was the name of the 

 oracle drawn from wells. Dan is a poem, and Dana learning or poetry. 



1^8* Cox's Aryan Mythology, i. 3S5. 



148** Vallancey jonnects Jon, the sun, the god of the pagan Irish, with the Pelilvi Jhan. 



