PRIMITIVE HISTORY OF THE lONIANS. 565 



and Pelles, have many links to bind tliem to the Onite Ahishur, 

 Achban, Seled and Peleth. It is a strange coincidence Wth the 

 facts ah-eady established that appears in the chronicle of Geoffrey, 

 where Evander is made a king of Syria. ^^^ In the same clironicle, 

 Brutus is represented as the father of Kamber, Locrin and Albanact, 

 while his wife is Ignoge, the daughter of Pandrasus, king of Greece.^^* 

 To Kamber the region of the Severn fell as his kingdom, and the 

 city of Brutus was Kser-Lud. Brutus is the same as Brathu, a form 

 of Martu,^^^ and denotes Mareshah ; Lud, the name of his city, is 

 Laadah, the father of Mareshah ; Kamber, with the Severn, is 

 Tiberiniis, Tembrion, Khammurabi or Hebron, the- son of Mareshah ; 

 and Ignoge, called his wife, is really the Heliopolitan Hanku, who 

 married Cephren or Hebron, his son. Pandrasus challenges com- 

 parison with Pendaran Dyved of older forms of British tradition, 

 who relates to the Awen line, and with the Greek Tyndareus and 

 the Egyptian Tentyra. It probably denotes Jonathan-ra. As for 

 Locrin and Albanact, though much out of place, they seem to designate 

 Abishur in his Locrian connections, and Aliban in the Lebanon form 

 of his name. 



The Irish and Scottish traditions give a Scythian ancestry to the 

 earliest inhabitants of the British islands. It is, therefore, interesting 

 to find the Scythian Apollo called CEtosyrus, a name which Professor 

 Rawlinson appropriately compai'es with the Indian Surya, and which 

 denotes Abishur.^"'' Paterus was also the name of the Celtic Apollo 

 and his priests f''^ and from Penninus, a solar god who represents his 

 son Ahban, the Pennine Alps and the Apennines received their 

 name.-'^^ In Mediaeval tradition, Helias or Ealadli, the son of queen 

 Matabrune, with the legend of the golden collars which reappear in 

 the golden rings of the Germanic dwarf Andvari, presents us with a 

 form of Seled or Galahad, the son of Nadab or ISTadab-ra, who is 

 represented both by Matab-rune and Andva-ri.^^" Ealadh, or the 



153 Geoffrey's British History, x. 5. 



154 Id. i. 2. Another female name oi British story that finds an ancient equivalent is 

 Blanchefleur, daughter of Merchiawn, who is Leucothooe, daughter of Orchamus, Merchiawn or 

 Mark heing a British form of Jerachmeel. 



155 Rawlinson's Herodotus, App. Book i. Essay x. 

 15S Id. App. Booli iv. Essay ii. 



157 Ausonius apud Banier, English ed. iii. 272. 



158 Livy api(,d id. iii. 274. He is the same as the Germanic Geban. Grimm's Deutsche 

 Mythologie, 567. 



159 Cox's Aryan Mythology, i. 277; ii. 284. 



