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reason wky the story should not be traced beyond Phoenicia and to 

 Egypt, if proof can be given of the connection by migration or com- 

 mercial and literary intercourse of Egypt, Phoenicia and Grreece. This 

 I shall endeavour to give, first of all. My three propositions will thus 

 be the following : 



1. That Egypt, Phoenicia and Greece were most intimately connected 

 in various ways from very ancient times. 



2. That Acencheres Mesphres Thothmosis was the Pharaoh of the 

 Exodus, and that in his reign this intimate connection existed. 



3. That the circumstances connected with the death of the Pharaoh 

 of the Exodus, his names and parentage, clearly point him out as the 

 Adonis of Phcenicia and G-reece. 



I. — Egypt, Ph(Enicia and Greece were most intimately con- 

 nected IN various ways prom very ancient times. 



Greece and Eyypt. — In taking up the direct connections between 

 Egypt and Greece, the difficulty, with any attentive reader of the 

 Greek historians, is one of selection, — so numerous are the links with 

 which they bind the two countries together. Herodotus plainly states 

 that the gods of Greece, originally Egyptian, were introduced by the 

 Pelasgi,^® and Diodorus says much the same regarding their origin." 

 These statements have been confirmed by the researches of Creuzer,i^ 

 Guigniaut,^' and many other students of mythology in recent times. 

 Herodotus, Theopompus, Apollodorus, Diodorus Siculus, Pausanias, 

 with a crowd of other writers, including many poets and the dramatists, 

 agree in drawing a large number of the heroes and great families of 

 mythical Greek history from Egypt. Thus Ogyges founds Egyptian 

 Thebes, and gives his name to the whole country ; ^^ Peloponnesus is 

 called the Apian land after Pelops, who is the Egyptian Apis ; ^^ and 

 Actis, head of the Rhodian line, founds Heliopolis.^^ Not only is 



traditional, geographical and philological, that has been accumulating for ages. Nothing can 

 be more certain than that the whole sea-coast of the Mediterranean, north, south and east, was 

 held, in Phrenicia, Palestine, Egypt and Libya, equally as in Asia Minor, Greece and Italy, by 

 the family of nations now called Indo-European. 



16 Herodot. L. ii, c. 52. 



n Diod. Sic. L. i, c. 7, &c. 



18 Creuzer, Symbolik and Mythologie der alten Volker, 1819. 



19 Guigniaut, Religions de I'Antiquite, 1825. 



20 Guigniaut, vol. iii, p. 88 ; Bauier, vol. iii, p. 33. 



21 Pausanias, L. ii ; Augustine, Civ. Dei, L. xviii, c. 5. 



22 Diod. Sic. L. v, c. 35. 



