412 THE COPTIC ELEMENT IIT 



and the father of 



" Leucothoe, 

 Gentis odoriferae quam formosissima partu 

 Edidifc Eurynome,"^'' 



Leucothoe is Tilbin or LEBANA, the famous goddess of Assyria,- 

 and the Alhunea of Latin story. Hurki is the Babylonian name of 

 Sin, the moon-god, whose principal temple was built in Hur by Urukh, 

 and whose connection with bricks, according to Sir Henry Rawlinson^ 

 explains why the Hebrew LABAN" make bricks, LEBENAH, brick, 

 is almost the same as LEBANAH, the moon^^ Hurki, Urukh, 

 TJrhammu, Orchamus and even Ai-cas and Orcus are different forms 

 of the Arab YER AKH or JOBHAM, who was the ancestor of the 

 great ARKAM family.®* I need not say that the root of all these 

 words is YERAH, the moon. The very frankincense shrub, that, 

 by the command of Apollo, sprang out of the grave of the 

 dishonoured daughter of this YERAKH or Orchamus, retains in 

 Greek equally as in Hebrew her original name ; for frankincense in 

 these languages is Hebrew, LEBONAH ; Greek, libanos. 



The following table of twelve columns shows striking and 

 interesting relations among languages belonging to at least two 

 different families ; and the variations of the words will be found to 

 accord with much that has been said in regard to prefixes, while they 

 set at nought many existing theories of comparative philology.®^ 

 Of the twelve columns, five are occupied by the names of animals, 

 the lion, bear, wolf, fox, jackal and dog ; another five is taken up 

 with words denoting light, brightness, whiteness, as bleach, white, 

 bright, light, shine, milk, moon, silver ; and the other two include 

 heart, love and like. 



62 Id., 1. iv., 209. 



83 Rawlinson's Herodotus, App. Book i. Essay x, Religion of the Babylonians, &c. 



** Lenormant and Chevalier's Manual, Vol. ii., 289. Jervis' Genesis, 191, 195. 



65 In this table, as througliout the essay, I have been compelled, owing to the absence of 

 suitable founts of type, to print aU the words In the ordinary character. The Coptic, 

 Babylonian and Assyrian, Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac and Arabic, Persian, Hindustani and Sanskrit 

 words generally follow, in regard to form, the rules of Peyron ; Norris, in his Assyrian 

 Dictionary ; Gesenius ; Eichhorn ; Sir W. Jones and Richardson ; Forbes ; Miiller and Benfey. 

 The Irish Dictionary employed is that of O'Reilly, and the Welsh, of Thomas Edwards. For 

 rompu, a plural Egyptian form of the word denoting wolf, I am indebted to Champollion's 

 Dictionnaire Egyptien, p. 83. 



