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Eg., Neith; Hi-h., NAHATH; Or., Anaitis. 

 Hg., Chons; Heb., KENAZ; Lat., Census." 



The royal lists of Manetho and others furnish names that are the 

 property not of Egypt alone but of the whole world. These names 

 have received confirmation from the study of the Egyptian monu- 

 ments. Such are Menes and Athothes, corresponding to the Ger- 

 man Mannus and Tait, the Welsh Menw, the Gallic Teutates, the 

 Indian Menu and Greek Minos and the Phoenician Taautus and 

 Hebrew Hathath or Jetheth. Boethus and Cechous are reproduced 

 in the Indian Buddha and Okkaka, and in the Greek Boeotus and 

 Ogyges. Okkaka, the gourd, answers exactly to the Coptic and 

 Semitic hus, a word having the same meaning, and of which Cechous 

 is a reduplicate form, as is well seen in the Choos of Eusebius. In 

 CuRUDES we find Gordys, Cretheus, and the common termination, 

 cartus; in Bie^neghes the Greek Phoenix, and Indian Pingacsha ; 

 in Tlas, Atlas; in Rathures, Erythrus of Greek, Roudraof Sanskrit, 

 and Arthur of British mythology; in Pachnan, the Persian Pecheng 

 or Pushang, and the eponymus of PachynuTn in Sicily; in Tothmes, 

 Teutamas of Assyria. Other names unite the Semitic and Indo- 

 European languages, such as the following : 



.E;., SiRois; //e6., SERATAII; (?»•., Seirios ; -Sans., Sury a. 

 .£'5'., Mares ; //e6., MARESIIAH ; G^r., Marsuas. 

 ^9-., Chebron; ) jr^^ HEBRON; ^ ( Kebren. 



JEg., Cephrex; \ * "' Septuagint, Chehron; **'' \ Huperion. 



J'y., Spa.vius; /TeJ , ISHPAN"; (?/•., Hispania; Per.f,, Isfahan. 



jEq'., AcriTHOEs; / jt i TAr>LT^'ra■ (rr., 1 Aktaios, Abtaion. 



J',..OxHo.s; I '''^■^^^^j,,j,_ JAttis^whoisPapas. 



Eg., Archles ; Ileh., -j Apu \ onupr . ^^-i Herakles; Lat, Hercules. 

 Eg-, Rameses; Heb., RAM; Lat., Rome, Remus; Sans., Rama. 



We have the authority of Diodorus Siculus for locating the myth 

 of Prometheus in Egypt and on the bank of the Nile.^^ On the 

 Pelusiac branch of that river we find Pharboethus, the modern 

 Heurbayt, which answers, m replacing its equivalent b, to the eighth 

 old Egyptian month Pharmuthi, which immediately preceded the 

 season of inundation, with which Diodorus connects the myth of the 



1' The Hebrew equivalents of the above names and of others that follow, are almost exclu- 

 sively derived from the first few chapters of the first book of Chronicles, where I am persuaded 

 hat they dj not designate the descendants of the patriarch Jacob. All attempts to turn thd 

 2nd and 4th chapters into genealogies of the twelve tribes have failed. 



W Diod. Sic. i, 19. 



