THE HORITES. 525 



Hycsos, for the dynasty wliicli tliese invaders overtlirew was Horite. 

 It is worthy of note that among the many races with whom the con- 

 quering Pharaohs are said to have warred, and whose names are 

 recorded on vaiious monuments, the Horites never appear. 



One of the earliest names of Egypt is Aeria. The Rev. W. B. 

 Galloway, to whom I am indebted for many valuable suggestions, 

 both from personal communications and from his published opinions, 

 together with other writers, connects this name with the Auritae 

 of the Old Clu-onicle.^'^ These Auritae are given as the first ffreat 

 race of Egypt, including gods, demi-gods, and men." Their gods, 

 indeed, the Egyptians allowed to have been but deified men.^^ Tliese 

 Auritae are the Hor Shesu, servants of Horus or families of the 

 Horites, of the monuments and papyri.^® I need not tell any student 

 of Egyptian antiquities that Horus is the greatest of all names in 

 the Egyptian, mythology. It is an aspirated word, having the form 

 Choris, shewing the power of the Hebrew Chethj and appears 

 frequently as a termination to the names of many kings, Nepher- 

 cheres, Tancheres, Zebercheres, &c. In this family several of the 

 principal gods of the Egyptians are to be found. We shall not find 

 Osiris here, nor his near relation Atmoo ; these belong to the family 

 of Etam. Neither will Ammon and his son Khensu meet us ; these 

 are later, and connect with the son of Lot. The purely solar 

 divinities, the centre of whom is Ra, the sun, are the representatives 

 of the family of Shobal. 



The first to engage our attention is the ancestor of the gods of the 

 Auritae. His name is Seb, Sebek, or Seb-ra, and he is Cronus or 

 Time. In him we find the Shobal of Mount Seir. As the Al of 

 Alvan becomes the Ra of Chronicles, so the final al of Shobal, 

 although a different syllable, is represented by the ra which is affixed 



^6 Egypt's Record of Time to the Exodus of Israel, 136. Mr. Galloway while rightly con- 

 necting Aeria and the Auritae, as Keurick and many others have done, jiuts a most just and 

 reaaanable faith in the antiquity of both words, in which these writers do not generally agree 

 witbjiim. While agreeing fully with Mr. Galloway In his derivation of the Assyrian line from 

 Egyp\ and identiflcation of Sesostris with Xisuthrus, 1 regret that I cannot find with him the 

 ■word l^thyrian or Assyrian in Aeria. The Assyrian line is that of Asshur or Aslicur, whose 

 son Ae'^ashtari is Sfisostris and Xisuthrus. This line was from an early period inimical to the 

 Horites 



17 01d\Bgyptian Chronicle in Cory's Ancient Fragments. There can be no reason for reject- 

 ing the iame Auritae more than for discarding the two other deeignations, Mestraei and 

 Aegypti, 1p which no exception is taken. 



18 This Instated by Diodorus Sioulus and others. All the Pharaohs when dead became gods. 

 Lenormautund Chevalier, i. 294. 



15 Leaornlint and Chevalier, Manual of the Ancient History of the East, i. 202, 



